Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern

90 members Latest Activity: Dec 10, 2021

Get updates on The Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern, the world's first permanent museum collection of Cigar Box Guitars.  Speal's Tavern…

Shane Speal's 12 STONES

27 members Latest Activity: Nov 29, 2015 Shane Speal's new album, 12 STONES is on sale.  We thought we'd repost Shane's recording logs & answer questions you have. …

Diddley Bows and Other Primitives

341 members Latest Activity: Sep 13, 2022 A place to discuss one-string diddley bows, washtub basses, washboards and any other primitive instrument that may fall outside the Cigar Box realm.

Record Store

40 members Latest Activity: Nov 18, 2019 Record and release your own CBG album? Post about it here. Give us links to where we can buy it. Also post reviews of your favorite cigar box…

Super Advanced Cigar Box Guitar Building

532 members Latest Activity: Mar 5, 2022 Here's where the freaks hang out. Get the inside scoop on wild cigar box guitar designs, advancements and experiments. Not for the timid builder!

Smokehouse Guitars

154 members Latest Activity: Jul 11, 2019

The complete guide to advanced cigar box guitar making is now available:

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Low Budget Land

390 members Latest Activity: Feb 26 Cigar box guitar builders are a creative and resourceful bunch. Share ideas for CBG materials and supplies that are free, nearly free, or recycled.

Secrets of the CBG Underground

347 members Latest Activity: Feb 26 Tips, Tricks of the Trade and Secrets that (almost) no one is supposed to know about... Tell us your secrets!

Post Your Favorite Special Tools: DIY or Store Bought

274 members Latest Activity: Sep 6, 2021

Hi Y'all,

Every cigar box guitar builder eventually makes their own…

CBG Tabs

603 members Latest Activity: Feb 18 So you built your CBG and now you need something to play on it, right? Well, if you're not completely musically inclined or can't read traditional…

Three string guitars

669 members Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022

Everything about anything that's a three stringer

Cigar Box Basses

408 members Latest Activity: Apr 2 Where the lords of the lower frequencies dwell!!!

CB Nation Recording Studio

261 members Latest Activity: May 20, 2023 An experimental recording collective where members of the Nation can collaborate on music with other members. Please start a new discussion for each…

Musicians Wanted

33 members Latest Activity: Feb 9, 2018 A place to place want ad's if you want to start a band or get a jam going.

BOOTLEGGERS AND MUSIC TRADERS

64 members Latest Activity: Jan 21, 2020 Music builds community, and so this is a group of people who want to share music with one another, and discuss the albums we share. Blues, lofi,…

CONCRETE MUSIC

51 members Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2016 Putting the avant back to the garde! Taking CBG to the outer limits where, to quote Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn…

Percussion Anyone?

75 members Latest Activity: Feb 22, 2019 Cigar box guitar players can lay down the rythm, but who lays down the groove? This groups is for the percussion player in all of us, lets…

DUMPSTER DIVER'S MUSIC UNION

218 members Latest Activity: Feb 26 Scavengers unite! We want to know what unusual trash you've used to build instruments. Post your trash-to-treasure creations. Follow up on…

The Open Mic

107 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018 A cigar box guitar was meant to be played!!! Cigar Box Nation is encouraging all its members to get out and perform in public. Find an open mic and…

Antique Cigar Box Guitars

22 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018

This is the place to post stories of Old Cigar Box Instruments and photos, If you want to see stuff that is newly uncovered about cigar…