Make Your Own Cigar Box Guitar

Make Your Own Cigar Box Guitar
November 7, 2010 by Colin · Leave a Comment
How To Make A 3 String Cigar Box Guitar In this blog post, I'll take you through how to make a basic, fretless, 3 String Cigar Box Guitar. In this instance, I'm using a Cigar Box Guitar Kit that I picked up from eBay. The kit contains all the parts that I need to build the guitar, with the exception of the box (luckily I have a spare box!). The kit came with: a length of Redwood for the neck, 3 closed machine head tuners, 3 nylon strings (which I may swap for steel strings later), 1 piezo pick up, already soldered to a 6.35mm jack (so the guitar can be plugged into an amp) 3 … [Read More...]
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