Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams, ...

Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. In the central Massachusetts town of ...

If WT Bryant isn’t working with his hands, he says his world just doesn’t feel right. It’s that maker spirit that’s led him to reimagine objects like the cigar box. For nearly four years, Bryant has ...

When Diane Sutliff started making cigar-box guitars in late 2008, she was driven by curiosity, some innate craftiness, and the desire to improve upon someone else’s work—the same things that seem to ...

One-time furniture maker Greg McKinnon is not so much singing the blues as helping people play them on his unique guitars. The man wielding the axe on one of the world’s most recognisable guitar riffs ...

Ever wondered what you can do with an old box, a piece of wood and a few strings? Music-loving Michael Marshall did and is helping to revive an old tradition of the cigar box guitar. He’s converted ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- One of the only festivals of its kind in the Southeastern U.S. returns this weekend at the Flying Monkey Arts Center with more than just cigar box guitars to see. Close to 50 ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.