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Want to build better cigar box guitars? Looking for some solid advice on how to build CBGs that sell?In this post, we have three short videos from Shane Speal with insanely useful tricks and hacks to

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Yesterday afternoon, Glenn Watt and I hauled about 700 board feet of 150-year-old wooden planks from an old hat factory into Gitty HQ. When I got to work yesterday morning, a reclaimed wood run was no

  The Cigar Box Guitars in Schools Program

Reduced feedback. Deeper bass response. And no more "quack!" I was complaining about certain tonal problems with piezo pickups when the idea for this standalone pre-amp came to me. It's deceptive

Part 2 in Shane Speal's four-string cigar box guitar project shows how to properly align the neck to the center of the Hubcap resonator cone.  It also shows a great way to notch out a neck using a

While a lot of cigar box guitar builder attention goes to disk piezos and standard acoustic guitar-style rod piezos, there is another option that can be a great addition to your toolbag: the violin-st

Seven years ago, I had never heard of cigar box guitars or other homemade instruments.I had dabbled a little with "restoring" an old Kay guitar and had read a book on how to build a bluegrass mandolin

Want to challenge yourself with a new way to build your next guitar? Use an old wooden crate to make your biggest, most distinctive DIY-guitar yet! There's no question that cigar boxes are the mo

If you have ever wondered about whether you might be able to sell your cigar box guitars, this is a story you should read.Todd Neal has been building cigar box guitars since he bought his first kit

After the enormous success of our "Hard Times Make Great Music" instrument contest, we decided we're gonna party like it's 1869 and have a Banjo Build-Off!    The first set of cigar box instrument p

What is scale length and why should you care?  Given the “no rules” mantra in the cigar box guitar community, the term scale length looks an awful lot like a rule, doesn’t it? And if there are