Who can forget the homemade musical instruments they made as children – the rubber band guitars, shakers with beans, or the simple wax paper over a comb kazoos? But homemade instruments aren’t just a ...

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. As a luthier, Roger Wendover has spent more than a quarter century ...

From shop class to cigar box guitars, Daniel Cook's journey is a testament to creativity and craftsmanship. Discover how this parts professional channels his passion for building into unique, ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

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. But don’t get the ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Trash turns to treasure in the crafty hands of a Union Bridge man. Harry Harne has been making cigar box guitars professionally for about five years. “Cigar boxes get thrown out ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Scott Hanley has a unique hobby that’s made him well-known around the globe. Hanley’s Cigar Box Guitars, made right at his Plattsburgh home, are fully working handmade ...

Paul Bottos is a little bit like a Dr. Frankenstein who doesn't know what to do with his own monster. The 49-year-old from Hamilton makes cigar box guitars — handmade, homemade instruments concocted ...

The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chainsaws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy Tight and Wayne ...