Cigar Box Guitars

These are some Cigar Box Guitars I have built

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Cigar Box Guitar Number 6

No.6 is a fretted 4-string made from a Gloria Cubana box.
It has a curly maple neck with a cocobolo fingerboard and some purpleheart accents.
It also has two handwound pickups.


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Cigar Box Guitar Number 5

No.5 is a fretted 6-string made from a Padron box.
It has a curly maple neck with a bocote fingerboard.
It also has one handwound pickup. I made this one for my friend Steve Norris.


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Cigar Box Guitar Number 4

No.4 is a fretted 4-string made from a Macanudo box.
It has an ash neck with a cocobolo fingerboard.
It also has two handwound pickups. Tomi-O now has this guitar.


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Cigar Box Guitar Number 3

No.3 is uses a Fuente box, an Ash neck, and has two handwound pickups.


Large Tom Thompson performing at the Tobacco Shop on Highway 31	Large Steve Norris plays along	Microwave Dave playing number 3. Quicktime clip (10MB) MP3 file (556KB)	Large Microwave Dave

Large No.3 about 90% complete	Large Pickup for No.3

Cigar Box Guitar Number 2

No.2 uses an Astral box, has an Ash neck with black pearl dots.
It was made for a friend and he did not want a pickup.


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Cigar Box Guitar Number 1

This Punch box was the first one I made. It has a walnut neck with white
pearl dots. I also made the pickup.


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Large No.2 90% complete	Large A headphone amp made from plans here	Large Headstock of No.1

A few pics from the 2005 Cigar Box Extravaganza in Huntsville


Large Matt Crunk	Large Matt Crunk	Large Stacy Puckett	Large ??? (I forgot), Cigar Box Slim and Jim Farris

Large Cigar Box Slim, Johnny Lowe and Jim Farris	Large Boz	Large Boz	Large Some pretties

Large Some more pretties	Large Ray Nutter and Matt Crunk	Large Gerry Thompsom and Jim Farris

Closeups of a Pickup


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