If you want to make a very basic guitar you can do so with a piece of 1x2-inch oak, string, a few hardware odds and ends, and a cigar box. Cigar box guitars have been a growing trend in maker ...

McPheeters saw his first cigar-box guitar when he visited the Smithsonian Institute in 1973 but didn’t make one until two years ago.

In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars.

Kevin M. Kraft spent years unsatisfied with the instruments he had and was considering commissioning a custom-made guitar when he came across an alternative: Making one himself from a cigar box ...

BIDDEFORD — A musical instrument that originated in the early days of slavery and is now making a comeback is found all around the world ”“ including Biddeford. The first cigar box guitars ...

The cigar-box guitar is undergoing a renaissance. In Chicago its most passionate proponent may be art teacher Diane Sutliff.