Cigar Box Guitar Articles

The Electric Diddley Bow is a homemade one-string slide guitar that uses an old radio headphone earpiece as a pickup.

Several people asked about measurements of the Little Joe banjo, so I traced it and made a PDF. Download it here

Fontenot talking about his cigar box fiddle. Near the end, he pulls out a re-creation of his original cigar box fiddle

The Little Joe is a bizarre novelty instrument by the Harp-O-Chord Company of Columbus, OH and enables players to be a one man band!

This primitive one-string guitar was a labor of love for the builder, who planned out a neck-through-body design with a bent wood...

This cigar box violin is probably over 100 years old, and it's still playable! It was discovered in Toledo, OH.

Much time was spent carving and building this instrument and it truly looks like an instrument that could launch a bluesman's career.

This unassuming yellow painted cigar box guitar is literally the grandfather of modern cigar box guitar design!

My son, Shane Jr. (pictured above on drums) is a budding musician who is exploring as many instruments as possible. Yesterday, he came...

A look inside the Mailbox Guitar reveals an extremely simple bracing system made from poplar scraps. The wood was leftover from some cigar

This small and very primitive cigar box guitar was found in East Troy, Wisconsin and features a cigar box dating back to the 1930's.

Its very rare to find a fully documented, signed & dated cigar box guitar, but this cigar box ukulele is the exception.

Create frets for cigar box guitars using copper wire from a craft store. Tools: hammer & needle nose pliers.

Shane Speal commissioned this instrument to incorporate elements of Ted Crocker's Honeydripper movie guitar...

Standard and alternate tunings for cigar box guitar. Includes 3-string, 4-string and 6-string.

This simple hinged board gets perfect glue joints on cigar box guitar headstocks. Easy design for any builder.