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Todd Creamer, a Stratford, P.E.I., carpenter and part-time musician, has found his new passion — making guitars from cigar boxes. Wanted: Old guitars, keyboards, amps for school rock band A ...

"You try and get ones that’s all wood. The sound is much better," he said. Just like traditional guitars, cigar box guitars have a neck with fretboards. Small cabinet vents serve as sound holes.

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met ...

McQueen says he began constructing his own electric guitars in 2012 and has since made around 20 instruments. As do many amateur luthiers (the name for a craftsperson who builds or repairs stringed ...

Reichel is quick to point out that his cigar box guitars don’t sound like the electric guitars people are used to hearing today. He builds them so they can be plugged into an amp, but there is a ...

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

“I didn’t know what I was doing,” Jay said. “I know you just needed a string, a stick, and something to make sound. The first one I made because I can’t afford to buy an $800 or $900 guitar.

An Obsession with Cigar Box Guitars: 120 Great Hand-Built Examples David Sutton. Fox Chapel Publishing, $14.99 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-56523-796-4 ...