The fourth volume of Make magazine, available on Amazon.

The major projects include an electric cigar box guitar, a kit to take high speed strobe photos (so you can capture a balloon or light bulb in mid-pop), and how to turn kids' electronic toys into musical instruments. There's also a guide to a bunch of different kinds of kits (electronic, beer making, robots, etc) and a how-to by Mr. Jalopy on converting a vintage hi-fi cabinet into an LP and CD ripper, burner, and player. More details here....

Pickup Workshop - By Skeesix

Basically, a magnetic pickup is a magnet with wire wrapped around it. The two ends of the wire connect to an output jack. Real simple. Any kind of magnet and any kind of thin copper wire will work. Just make sure you sand off any insulation on the ends of the wire, so you get a good connection with the output jack.... More details here....

CBG Radio Schedule

Saturday Nov 6th - 8:00pm till late (est)
Cigar Box Slim and The Smokebox Revival

Sunday Nov 7th - 8:00pm till late (est)
Best of the Rest featuring Gerry, Rollie, Shane, Stacy and much more

CBG Radio Weekly Schedule read more details

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Friday November 5th - 8:00pm till late (est)
Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar CD
78 MINUTES OF PURE HOMEMADE BOOGIE.

Masters of the Cigar Box Guitar CD
78 MINUTES OF PURE HOMEMADE BOOGIE. This disc rocks!!! If you love to find cds that push the boundries, you'll absolutely love this release. Buy it. Crank it up. Rock it out!!!. more details

How to Make A Bottleneck Slide
You'll need - Wine bottle with long neck, Glass cutter, Masking tape, Dremel Rotery Tool with grinding stone bit (optional)

Click here for step by step instructions

Happy Birthday Johnny Lowebow
Badder than Beefheart, Meaner than Muddy, Louder than God.
Johnny Lowebow is the stage name for John Lowe, musician and bookstore owner from Memphis TN who has become known for his unusual electric cigar box guitars called Lowebows.... read more

Sept 29

Cigar Box Guitar Player of the Month
Elliott and the Untouchables - Elliott started experimenting and building his own 4- and 5-string diddley bow cigar-box guitars. He has been using his "Ell-bows" in a band setting to play some swamp/funk Mississippi blues. The diddley bow pictured above is one of Elliott's hand-built creations used on 4 tracks of the new "Voodoo Stew" CD. ... read more

Sept 23

Featured Workshop
24.5" Guitar Fretboard Scale by DENNIS BROOKER
Here is a link to a 24.5" scale pattern that can be printed on regular 8.5" x 11" paper. more details

Sept 21

Special Feature - Cigar Box Guitar Player of the Month
By popular demand CigarBoxGuitars.com features Gerry Thompson & Blue Neighborhood. Read about Gerry and download sample tracks from his new CD 'Blue Neighborhood' plus 2 extra bonus tracks, Live from "FESTIVAL OF THE RIVERS" ... read more

Sept 18

FREE SHANE SPEAL CIGAR BOX GUITAR CD!!! "Let Them Eat Beans"
This is a present to everyone in the Cigar Box Guitar Forum. Happy Birthday. You guys have become my close friends and continually make me proud.... more details

Sept 9

Pickup Workshop - By Skeesix

Sept 7

Future Assured for Hinton's Festival of the Rivers
The two-day event attracted more than a dozen musical acts from as far away as Israel—in the form of jug band singer/performer Paul Moore. Other acts came from North Carolina, Mississippi, Seattle, Wash., New Jersey, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Michigan, as well as Summers and Mercer counties in West Virginia. As is often the case in the first in a series of events, attendance could have been stronger, but event organizers blamed this on a late start – just a couple of months before the Labor Day weekend.... View the photo gallery

Aug 11