Groups

CBGs by nature involve recycling old boxes. Here is a place to share all your ideas about recycling everyday objects into guitar parts. Eye bolt tuners, drain cover soundholes, rusty spanners as bridges, paint can resos... Share creative ideas here.

CBGs, cookie tins.. They're great.. But sometimes a neck is just too nice to stick in a recycled container...
And sometimes you just gotta rock…

Talk about the good old days when you were a punk. Post pics and covers of old Punk Songs on a CBG!

Putting the THUMB in the strum...

Cigar Box Mandolins

A cigar box guitar was meant to be played!!! Cigar Box Nation is encouraging all its members to get out and perform in public. Find an open mic and PLAY. Then come in here, post pictures and setlists and exchange ideas. Tune up and rock out.

A group by Cigar Box Nation member, Skeesix.  Pickups, pickups, pickups! Skeesix CBG pickups, magnetic, piezo, magnets, wire, bobbins, winding, winders, installation, single coils, humbuckers, P-90's, bar pickups - you name it, if it has…

Just a place for us Texas boys to talk about music and festivals around the state.Anybody is welcome to join!

Just a place for all things banjo, 5 String, Tenor, Plectrum...and of course DIY creations.

We all fashion our cigar box guitars into the format of regular guitars, so why not do something new with your cbg. Make it a tenor cigar box guitar. This page is dedicated to the making and playing of tenor cigar box guitars.

Were Canadian CBG makers can talk CBG topics and share ideas and photos and vids.

If you have one of those colossal, bonehead, 'DOH' moments building, tell us about it here. Aw come on, admit it. You've done something completely inept. We wanna here about it.

Its time to organise the brothers in The Pacific Northwest. Lets get this network goin so's we can have festivals and such like our southern bros. PLayers, builders and doodlers, all are welcome.

Get updates on The Cigar Box Guitar Museum at Speal's Tavern, the world's first permanent museum collection of Cigar Box Guitars.  Speal's Tavern is located near Pittsburgh in the town of New Alexandria, PA. 

Speal's features live…

welcome to my new group. lets talk bowed instruments.

thought about how i was using modern mics and effects, mainly distortion and reverb, to record with and it seemed the next step to me was hand built microphones to record with - 

 

Drink and build !

CONTEST CLOSED

Build a Double Neck Cigar Box Guitar Submit up to 3 pictures per entry by May 31,…

19th and 20th century references to the humble cigar box guitar.

Shane Speal is now booking performing arts centers, festivals and club shows in the Mid Atlantic US region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Northern Virginia).  Any tips for venues will be followed up by Speal.…

Open to All builders, players, lovers of the CBG in North Carolina..... and whatever friends they may have wherever they may be

Show your artistic talents beyond CBG's or Cbg's with your own artistic touches.Oil's ,Watercolors,Carvings anything art.(NO NUDES PLEASE!Ugly ones anyway)