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Cool Video of a maker of these great instruments!

If you want to amplify your cigar box guitar. The Original maker and inventor of  Cigar Box Guitar pickups has a great selection of handcarved Americana pickups,  http://harrisonguitarpickups.com/

He has been building them for over 130 years, he knows his craft!

In fact, in 1917 the magazine ~Young Electrician~ wrote a story…”You will be amazed at Bob’s ability to harness Edison’s current for the NEW never before seen process of Guitar Amplification!”

visit his site and check out his handy work, you will love his style and they are perfect for cigar box guitars!

http://harrisonguitarpickups.com/

Here is a sample of his craft….now get on over there and check him out!

Do you love raunchy Southern slide & cigar box blues Tone….added with some total orginality?…and a dash of “Strangeness”???

of course you do, thats what  your eyes are on this blog….watch this video…I promise you will love it…this is really good music!

Bohemian Guitars are a company that describe themselves as creating ‘innovative sounding instruments out of unconventional materials for real, everyday use’. Thier shop is three guys wroking together to make cool guitars!

I saw this maker on etsy and thought he had a real nice style and builds great looking guitars.

I have never heard of him until today, but I sure do wish him much success and think his work is terrific!

On newstands now!….cool artical with Chickbone John from the United Kingdom

From Red Dog Guitars click here to see

saw this cool little pickup on ebay, how cool and for just 20 bucks!…this is NOT a bass pickup, but an actual 4 string p 90….this would be champ for a cigar box guitar

totally rad!

you can see the auction here

Check out this cool guitar made by Michael Ballerini from Facebook!

WAY COOL!