Gracing the cover was this uncomplicated, yet sophisticated, cigar box guitar. “The moment I saw that magazine cover,” Jehle said, “everything fell into place.” In the midst of striving to ...

A cigar store Indian is impractical and politically incorrect. But a cigar box guitar? Smokin' if you got one. Since 2006, Montreal-based Daddy Mojo has been rolling out 300 or so kitschy but ...

Catch Johnson at Flying Monkey Arts on Dec. 29 for $10. The show starts at 8 p.m., but a 6 p.m. cigar-box guitar slide demonstration and lesson is included with ticket purchase. Johnson was ...

He made a full-size Telecaster-style guitar with it. O’Reilly said he doesn’t have a wealth of guitars. He builds them as a hobby. But he’s made some four-string cigar box guitars and his ...

Robert Nugent of Conception Bay South says he first began building cigar box guitars as part of his step-daughter's homework assignment. "She had a build your own instrument assignment ...

He took the measurements, bought cedar wood and made ... McPheeters saw his first cigar-box guitar when he visited the Smithsonian Institute in 1973 but didn’t make one until two years ago.

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really ...

I had probably more pride in building that [first] little cigar box guitar last winter than I did some people's homes. — Todd Creamer "I was blown away by the way these little cigar boxes ...