Keeping with the long tradition of cigar box guitar making, he looked to incorporate into his guitars odd items from around the house and found at flea markets, tag sales, and antique shops.

It begins as just a cigar box and a five-quarter stick of maple. With 12 hours work, four strings and skilled fingers, it's music.

In her book, Bloomston suggests getting cigar boxes from a smoke shop, which will often sell them very cheaply or give them to you. But any box will do. Line it with pretty paper, meaningful ...

MARBLEHEAD — A new factory popped up on Rowland Street — one invoking a musical spirit with cigar boxes and restoring the soul of forgotten instruments entering their twilight years.

Schoen, 44, has been creating custom, "cigar-box" guitars for nearly a decade. His tools consist of old wood, glue, antique metal and more old wood.

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Todd Creamer, a Stratford, P.E.I., carpenter and part-time musician, has found his new passion — making guitars from cigar boxes.

Saltzman has made 14 cigar box guitars this year and sells them at local craft fairs. "I really can't make them fast enough. I'm all out," he said.

Simon Stanbridge can make stringed instruments out of anything — from baked bean tins to cheese boxes.

If your cigar enthusiasm has escalated to the point where you have multiple desktop humidors you may want to scour Craigslist for a non-working dorm or beer fridge and convert it into a large ...

Although wooden cigar boxes were used to hold cigars since the 1850s, the idea of chip carving the wood into picture frames, bird cages, dollhouses and more didn’t become a noticeable craft ...