Empty cigar boxes are like mini treasure chests waiting to be transformed into something new. Even if you only have one lying around the house, there is a lot of potential for what it could be. Cigar ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

MODESTO — The latest donation to the Jacksonville Area Museum almost became part of a guitar. While looking for new material to make cigar box guitars, Logan Elliott found a couple of cigar boxes from ...

I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

If you’ve never heard of a cigar box guitar, you’re not alone. ADVERTISING If you’ve never heard of a cigar box guitar, you’re not alone. This popular depression-era instrument utilizes an empty cigar ...

The instrument was an invention of poor black American musicians during the mid-19th century. How Cigar Box Guitars Are Making A Comeback [Youtube] The cigar box guitar was an invention of poor black ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

South Amherst Middle School students, with the help of a grant from FirstEnergy Corp., got a unique opportunity May 29 to create their own cigar box guitars and learn how to play them. “This was a ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...