I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

In a corner of the workshop lies a hodge-podge of discarded wooden beams, doors, and furniture, all used to make the cigar boxes, which can sell for thousands of dollars and are prized by wealthy ...

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 ...

Using a Soviet-era planer, Rene Reyes smoothes the panel of an old cedar door that he will transform into a humidor -- an ornate, handmade box used to preserve Cuba's famous cigars. The Barron's news ...

Using a Soviet-era planer, Rene Reyes smoothes the panel of an old cedar door that he will transform into a humidor -- an ornate, handmade box used to preserve Cuba's famous cigars.