Making a Cigar Box Guitar

Grim's 1332 post got me watching a bunch of cigar box guitar videos. Here's a good, time-condensed video of making an electric cigar box guitar from scratch. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the craftsmanship, though the background music gets a bit repetitive.


Update: If anyone's interested in a much, much simpler and easier way to do this, here are three different plans.

Art of Manliness: How to Make a Cigar Box Guitar

Make: Hand-Rolled Music

Cigar Box Nation plans

Glenn Watt has a bunch of useful videos on it as well, and there is a lot more out there.
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3 comments:

  1. Grim12:16 AM

    I really like the sound these things make. They're kind of awesome.

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  2. Tom8:17 AM

    Yeah, there's something about the simplicity of it. Awesome is the right word.

    Glenn Watt's site has tablature for a lot of songs, including the "Marine Corp Hymn." I'd like to hear that on one of these things.

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  3. Tom8:27 PM

    Okay, so here's the hymn.

    https://youtu.be/-_pVLMCj_gI

    Frankly, I was hoping for more of a Jimmy Hendrick's rendition of it.

    A lot of Watt's CBG music on YouTube is not what I would think of as normal CBG music: Very little blues, more Greensleeves.

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