Cigar Box Guitar Articles

A rake handle and wine box create a playable slide bass. These plans, originally in Modern Mechanics and Inventions, 1931

Build a great playing cigar box fiddle with plans straight from 1940.

This homemade banjo-guitar was handmade by Luther Oliver (1904-1987) of Western Watauga County, North Carolina in 1919. He was only 15.

This primitive homemade banjo was found in a barn in North Carolina. The strings and bridge are long gone and the tin can body is rusted all