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Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

A small 10-by-10 workshop, at the back of an Upland home, is filled with the sounds of sawing and sanding. A couple hours later, there’s the strum of a guitar, and a sawdust-covered Rich Briggs ...

MODESTO — The latest donation to the Jacksonville Area Museum almost became part of a guitar. While looking for new material to make cigar box guitars, Logan Elliott found a couple of cigar boxes from ...

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 ...

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.

Bob Johnson has combined his music and woodworking skills, along with his cigar box collection, into creating musical instruments.

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 ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- Music can come from a lot of places and plenty of unconventional things. Gibson Shoemaker has been making unique guitars for five years. The sound comes from strings and ...

Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...