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How to Make Screened F-Holes in Cigar Box Guitars Give your cigar box guitars a clean look with simple wire mesh screens used for windows. Tools needed: Scroll Saw or coping saw Hot glue… Started by Cigar Box Nation	0	Mar 30, 2016
TAB LESSON: How to Play Grateful Dead's "Friend of the Devil" on 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Glenn Watt has taken the classic Grateful Dead song, "Friend of the Devil" and transcribed it into three-string TAB format. He has put t… Started by Cigar Box Nation	4	Mar 27, 2016 Reply by Silent Jim
Gospel Rock Legend, Glenn Kaiser and His Cigar Box Guitar Glenn Kaiser was one of the first musicians to meld hard rock with Christian theology in the 1970s, fronting the Chicago based Resurrection… Started by Cigar Box Nation	9	Mar 27, 2016 Reply by Silent Jim
Captain Nemoff Releases Classical Cigar Box Guitar Album A review by Shane Speal Cigar Box Guitar and classical music meet again after 150 years! Legend has it, in the middle of 19th century, t… Started by Cigar Box Nation	13	Mar 19, 2016 Reply by john ludiker
Samantha Fish Melts Faces with 4 Strings and a Cigar Box! Started by Cigar Box Nation	7	Mar 17, 2016 Reply by BUGGY (C)
VIDEO: Mind-Bending Musical Instrument Uses 2000 Marbles Swedish inventor and musician, Martin Molin has created the mind-bending Wintergatan Marble Machine, a complex Rube Goldberg machine that… Started by Cigar Box Nation	4	Mar 15, 2016 Reply by John Stetson
The AmpHanger: Build this DIY microphone stand for your amp... in seconds! Ever show up to a gig and realize you don't have enough mic stands between the band and the sound guy? Here's a sturdy...and simple way to… Started by Cigar Box Nation	1	Mar 15, 2016 Reply by Jim Morris
1963 Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar Plans (incl. full schematics) Historic Instrument Plans: originally published in Practical Wireless Magazine, June 1965. A special thanks to Hubcap John for scanning t… Started by Cigar Box Nation	0	Mar 7, 2016
ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Plays Cigar Box Guitar (Audio + Pics) A photo of Billy Gibbons playing cigar box guitar has been traveling around the interwebs for years. However, have you ever heard the musi… Started by Cigar Box Nation	0	Mar 7, 2016
VIDEO - The Mourning Glories "Jailhouse Blues" You probably have seen Shelley Rickey's cigar box uke video before. Now she's back with a plastic bucket washtub bass in the band, The… Started by Cigar Box Nation	38	Mar 4, 2016 Reply by Ron Ruhs

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