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How to Build and Play Cigar Box Guitars and other Homemade Instruments
This article on how to build a cigar box ukulele comes from the June, 1917 edition of Popular Mechanics. In it S. H. Samuels walks the reader through the basics of constructing a uke, which in 1917 “was made at a cost of 30 cents, by careful selection of materials from the shop scrap stock.”
Continue reading “A Homemade Hawaiian (Cigar Box) Ukulele – Popular Mechanics June, 1917”
No fancy tools required to make this awesome headstock for your cigar box guitar
By Glenn Watt
Thanks to craftswoman Farley Andresen for the demonstrating the work 
Cigar box is in the name, but the neck is what turns the box into a cigar box guitar.
And the headstock – the part of the neck that anchors your tuning pegs – is a critical component to getting, and keeping, your CBG fully functional. Continue reading “A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Make a Straight Headstock”