This project marks the creator’s return to cigar box guitars, four years after their first video. This time, the goal was to build a fretted version from scratch using only materials and tools ...

In 2009, Snowden composed and recorded "Summer in the Fields — Cigar Box Guitar Instrumentals," his first album of cigar box guitar music. He has since put out a number of additional records.

The significance of playing a musical instrument you have made with your own hands is not a small thing. In just two days you will learn to build a fretless, 3 string cigar box guitar.

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 gu ...

A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald was half of the Austin, Texas, alternative pop-rock duo Timbuk3, the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist’s moment in the ...

The cigar-box guitar community keeps growing as musicians like Hymn for Her and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons get drawn into the lure of an old-style sound.

The cigar boxes form plain rectangular bodies for most Lowebows. On the fancier ones, the boxes are surrounded by triangular frames or hand-carved wood in shapes like a standard guitar.

The Village of the Arts hosted the first-ever Bradenton Cigar Box Guitar Festival over the weekend. One of the artists, Matthew J, said he switched over to the quirky instrument to try something new.

In 2009, Snowden composed and recorded "Summer in the Fields — Cigar Box Guitar Instrumentals," his first album of cigar box guitar music. He has since put out a number of additional records.