1961 Arturo Langelli Cigar Box Ukulele
Its very rare to find a fully documented, signed & dated cigar box guitar, but this cigar box ukulele is the exception.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
VIDEO: How to Make Old Time Copper Wire Frets
Create frets for cigar box guitars using copper wire from a craft store. Tools: hammer & needle nose pliers.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
2009 Six Banger Electric Guitar by Ted Crocker
Shane Speal commissioned this instrument to incorporate elements of Ted Crocker's Honeydripper movie guitar...
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Shane Speal
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
How to Tune a Cigar Box Guitar
Standard and alternate tunings for cigar box guitar. Includes 3-string, 4-string and 6-string.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
A Simple Scarf Joint Glue-Up Jig for Cigar Box Guitars
This simple hinged board gets perfect glue joints on cigar box guitar headstocks. Easy design for any builder.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
Build This Styrofoam Beer Cooler Ukulele
Ukulele body is made from an actual styrofoam beer cooler... and it sounds great! This has got to be the most freakish-looking uke ever!
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Shane Speal
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
How to Build a Found Object Electric Guitar
This strange instrument was built in an hour using an antique bellows handle and several modern cigar box guitar parts.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
Triple Neck Cigar Box Guitar by Rusty Taylor
The guitar is a triple neck consisting of a 4-String,1-String, and 3-String. The body of the guitar is built to the measurements of a trian
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Shane Speal
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Bob Ice's Homemade Bass - New Orleans, 1959
New Orleans musician, Bob Ice and his 2-string plywood bass fiddle. Zanco says, "It produces a very effective sound; if you would
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Shane Speal
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The World's Loudest Acoustic Concert - York PA Factory Steam Whistle Christmas: Watch live tonight
LIVE CHRISTMAS EVE: WORLD’S LOUDEST MUSIC WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION FROM A NON-MUSICAL INSTRUMENT My hometown of York PA has one of the most...
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Shane Speal
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
PoorMansGuitar.com is now part of CigarBoxGuitars.com
Hi all, it's Shane Speal. The content from PoorMansGuitar.com is being brought over to CigarBoxGuitars.com in order to consolidate two...
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Shane Speal
- Dec 23, 2021
- 2 min
Should I Play Fretted or Slide Cigar Box Guitar?
Today, I'm answering a question from a reader: Dear Shane: Is it better to learn on a cigar box guitar that has a fretted neck or one...
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Shane Speal
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
Printable 23" Fretting Template from the Book, "Making Poor Man's Guitars"
Download and print this page for an easy to use 23" fretting scale template, as shown on page 173 of Making Poor Man's Guitars.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
VIDEO: I Put an $85 Lace Pickup in the Worst Cigar Box Guitar!
I put a Lace Alumitone Matchbook pickup in a $25 cigar box guitar! This has to be the most unfair gear review ever! This was my version o
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Shane Speal
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
How to Build a Lo-Fi Telephone Mic - Easy project!
The mic is perfect for blues harmonica or lo-fi vocals...and all you need is an old handset and guitar jack. Follow along with the video.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Handmade Copper Pipe Guitars and Scrap Iron Guitars
Two of the most freakish guitars in the Cigar Box Guitar Museum are by Tone-A-Cane Copper Pipe Guitars and Pete Regan’s Metal Guitars.
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Shane Speal
- Dec 18, 2021
- 1 min
Insane Guitar/Drum Patent
John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful discovered this patent and mailed it to Shane Speal several years ago. It shows a rectangle guitar...
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Shane Speal
- Jul 29, 2021
- 1 min
Four-String Cigar Box Guitar Part of MIM Museum Collection
Photos taken from MIM.org Among the 15,000 instruments under curation at the massive Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix AZ, the...
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Shane Speal
- Jul 17, 2021
- 2 min
Flamin’ Folk Art Electric Lap Steel - Circa 1950-1960
When someone mentions folk art instruments, a screaming electric lap steel guitar made with old guitar parts on a six pound slab of mahogany
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Shane Speal
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
How to Make Your Acoustic Cigar Box Guitar Louder with a Resonator
Have you ever noticed the wooden back piece of a conventional banjo. These are called resonators and their job is to keep the sound...
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