The How-To Repository for the Cigar Box Guitar Movement!
How to Build and Play Cigar Box Guitars and other Homemade Instruments
Here is our library of How-To information specific to building cigar box guitars. Browse all articles below, or choose a subcategory:
· Design and Decoration
· Electronics, Pickups and Wiring
· Fretting
· Necks & Headstocks
· Other Hardware How-To
· Tuners
· Tunings and Strings
No fancy tools required to make this awesome headstock for your cigar box guitar
By Glenn Watt
Thanks to craftswoman Farley Andresen for the demonstrating the work 
Cigar box is in the name, but the neck is what turns the box into a cigar box guitar.
And the headstock – the part of the neck that anchors your tuning pegs – is a critical component to getting, and keeping, your CBG fully functional. Continue reading “A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Make a Straight Headstock”
In this video, Ben “Gitty” Baker and Glenn Watt illustrate how easy it is to increase the versatility of the 2.5 watt amplifier boards that are the heart of their Cigar Box Amplifiers.
Continue reading “Add a Panel-Mount Gain to a C. B. Gitty Amp Board”
Josh Gayou of Smokehouse Guitars created this 179-page guide back in 2010, and decided to give it away for free to the cigar box guitar community. In it, he covers some of the more advanced techniques involved in building a high-end solid-body 6-string electric guitar using a cigar box body.
Continue reading “Advanced Cigar Box Guitar Building guide by Joshua Gayou”