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Shane Speal's Headlining Show at New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Fest Will Be With Snake Oil Band
Shane Speal has just confirmed that he will be bringing his Snake Oil Band with him to the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival this wee
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Hey Cigar Box Nation!
Christmas is only a week away and it's obvious that 2015 is the year of the DIY Guitar Holiday Season. Cigar Box Nation has been flooded with photos and videos of your new creations. We can't wait to see the follow-up vids and
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"Butterfly Guitar" by Ed Stilley of Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas.
In the pantheon of great guitar makers, Ed Stilley’s work stands alone like a castaway on its own musical island. Imperfect, bizarre and some even un-tunable to the modern equal tempe
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It's the Cigar Box Nation Newsletter for December 8,2015. We've got some great musical instrument concepts this week including a video feature on Skateboard Guitars.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT GUITAR PARTS FROM C. B. GITTY: We are currently seeing d
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FEATURED INSTRUMENTS! Rock royalty, Nils Lofgren (Springsteen's E Street Band, Crazy Horse, solo) shows off two instruments made by Cigar Box Nation member, Phrygian Kid.
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Last week, we announced a giveaway contest for the book, Junkyard Jam Band... and then everything blew up. Apparently the Cigar Box Nation site was sending out notifications every time someone posted a new comment, and with hundreds of commenters,
Many of you know Al Hamilton from the York CBG Fest. He is offering very low cost CBG kits for sale on his eBay store. If you purchase one to be donated, he will have it shipped directly to a deployed service member.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/371497161
Read more…Happy Halloween everyone! We've got your Halloween Build-Off winners, a cool new documentary on the PA CBG Fest and so much more. Dig in!
It's Autumn Instrument Building Season and we're going full tilt at Cigar Box Nation. If you're not checking our Facebook page daily, you're missing out on 5-8 homemade features/videos/cool things each day.
Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal recently completed this 3-string electric cigar box guitar and blogged about the entire creative process. The blog also contains a section on how to mod an acoustic Gold Foil Pickup to make it a top-mounting e
Ella shows off her 2 string cigar box guitar, built by her father, Mike Orr. The guitar is fully fretted and uses a kid-sized small cigar box with brass grommet soundholes. Many of you know Mike as the author of the book, Homemade Music Factory w
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Today's featured instrument is What'a Gal by OneSixTwoCBGs. This five-string gas is a beauty and sports the traditional 5 string banjo neck. Commissioned build for a local musicia
The weekend is coming and the woodshop is beckoning! Let's celebrate with all things Cigar Box Guitar. We've got a Halloween Build-Off starting today. The top 5 winners will receive prizes and also be featured in Guitar World Magazine's "DIY Mus
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Hello everyone,
I wanted to let you know that we are working on a redesign of Cigar Box Nation's look and feel (known as its "theme" or "skin". Basically, this means the banner, the colors, how the different content boxes look, etc. This current them
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