How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar. Posted: April 10, 2025 | Last updated: April 10, 2025. This project marks the creator’s return to cigar box guitars, four years after their first video.

Cigar box guitars and fiddles, along with other homemade instruments, such as jugs and washboards, figured heavily in the rise of American jug bands and blues in the early 20th century, since most ...

Cigar box guitars date back to the late 1800s, popular between 1900-20. "These instruments were invented by poor people in the South because they couldn’t afford to go out and buy standard six ...

In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars.For 60 years, Eddie Nasiatka played guitar in rock ...

The kick-off for the 19th annual Cigar Box Festival is slated for Friday, June 2, at Salty Nut Brewery.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and anyone who plans to attend is encouraged to bring a chair.