HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...

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 ...

Anyone who saw the funny little square-shaped guitars at Mikel Doktor’s booth stand at the Music is Art festival might have thought Doktor had created some unique, alien-type of instrument. However, ...

LOS ANGELES — The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chain saws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy ...

Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL. - About five years ago, Bill Jehle decided to build the perfect electric guitar. Dissatisfied with all of his equipment, Jehle began to take note of certain features in his dozen or so ...

The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chainsaws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy Tight and Wayne ...