Traditional style cigar box guitars - 3 string fretless, 4 string fretted, six string etc., often played with a glass or metal slide. Made from recycled or repurposed materials, for example hinges,cabinet handles, nuts and bolts, these guitars are fully playable - and electric... just crank 'em up or play them 'clean' . I love to build box guitars - out of anything that will work! I have made gui
tars from cigar boxes (of course!), cookie tins, baking pans, fishing tackle boxes, steel tool boxes, old army canteens, licence plates, boxes that I have made myself, cutlery boxes ... and so on. These traditional instruments evoke a time when, if you couldn't afford an instrument, you would make it yourself, out of what was at hand. Strongly connected with the birth of the blues, these guitars are great to develop your understanding of slide guitar. Try one: you'll find them highly addictive! The primitive, basic form of these guitars is appealing, the sound is evocative and haunting, and they are a joy to play. As a guitarist with a dozen or so 'regular' guitars, I hardly touch them and have a blast with these li'l ol' guitars!
