The How-To Repository for the Cigar Box Guitar Movement!
How to Build and Play Cigar Box Guitars and other Homemade Instruments
Here is our library of How-To information specific to building cigar box guitars. Browse all articles below, or choose a subcategory:
· Design and Decoration
· Electronics, Pickups and Wiring
· Fretting
· Necks & Headstocks
· Other Hardware How-To
· Tuners
· Tunings and Strings
In the video below, Shane Speal shows his technique of reinforcing internal bracing on neck-through cigar box guitars with extra wood. He also shows how to use a Forstner bit to route out the cavity for a mini humbucker pickup. (Note: the pickup used is a C. B. Gitty Toaster Bucker mini humbucker.) Continue reading “Cigar Box Guitar Building Tip: Neck Reinforcement with Humbuckers”