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The original and best! That's no empty boast - we've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. We have made and sold over 2400 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio.
All our guitars are set up for easy fretted and slide playing - as a guitar player I understand how a guitar should perform. We source the best components for the price, and carefully craft them into truly gig-worthy instruments, with unparalleled playability and tone.
We build to a quality, not down to a price - wherever possible we use European and North American timbers. We also use European and USA made components such as Van Gent machineheads & fretwire, d'Addario and Newtone strings, Van Damme cable, Neutrik & Switchcraft connectors etc, instead of relying on cheaper "sweatshop economy" parts.
We now have our own range of custom made stainless steel parts featured on some of our guitars - tailpieces, jack sockets and control plates. These are designed by us and manufactured right here in the UK West Midlands.
We ship guitars worldwide, and all our guitars are packed with care, double-boxed in custom made twinwall corrugated card boxes. When ordering a guitar please include a phone number with the delivery information.
We stand behind our products, and are proud to say that our guitars come with a 3 year guarantee.
CUSTOM ORDERS - We are pleased to announce that we are once again taking orders for custom guitars. If you can't find a guitar that you like on our site, or have seen one of our earlier guitars that you'd like, we can make one for you! We ask for 50% deposit, and delivery time is typically 2-3 months. We can advise on specification and special features, and will give you a fixed price quote, including shipping anywhere worldwide.
Cigar Box Guitars
Marui Humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£377.00
A simple sunburst box lightly distressed with a japan company packing box stencil logo. Round soundholes and matching bronze hardware has made a simple but beautiful cigar box guitar. Beechwood through neck and blackwood tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. Real pearl position dots and white edge dot markers with a distressed machine ...
Romeo & Julieta humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£375.00
A beautiful traditional "Romeo & Julieta" cigar box, lightly distressed, with a sapele armrest for a more comfortable playing position. Meranti through neck with cherrywood backstop reinforcement., sapele fretboard with Van Gent umbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers, with a machinescrew nut. Our guitar necks are fully ca...
Romeo & Julieta twinrail humbucker 3 String Cigar Box Guitar LEFTY
£350.00
Traditional "Romeo & Julieta" cigar box with Meranti neck -LEFT HANDED Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers, machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished in traditiona...
"New Cuba" Lefty Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£385.00
Left Handed Beautiful traditional style "New Cuba" box with matching chrome hardware and round soundholes. The graphics are reproductions of American cigar boxes from the late 19th and early 20th century, on a custom birch ply box. The result is a really resonant guitar which has a nice full acoustic sound. High gloss beechwood through neck and...
Bolivar twin handwound pickup deluxe - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£635.00
Traditional "Bolivar" cigar with laminated sapele and walnut neck Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real mother of pearl position dots and white edge dot markers, real bone nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished in traditio...
Undercrown Railhumbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£395.00
A beautifully simple all wood "Undercrown" cigar box with bronze hardware has produced a great looking toned down Cigar Box Guitar. Beechwood through neck and backstrap reinforcement, walnut fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. Pearl face position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profile...
Romeo y Julieta, twin pickup deluxe 3 String Cigar Box Guitar incl. case
£785.00
Traditional style "Romeo y Julieta" cigar box with laminated sapele and poplar "wings" for a perfect balance on the strap and ultimate comfort for seated playing. Laminated poplar and sapele through neck, with backstrap reinforcement and beautifully carved heel transition. Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real mother of...
Arturo Fuente - Humbucker Pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£370.00
A beautiful traditional style natural wood "Arturo Fuente" cigar box. Beechwood through neck and backstrap reinforcement, walnut fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods with a shellac, gun stock oil a...
Workshop Series - Custom "Sympathy for the Devil" Orange crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
Workshop Series - Custom "Sympathy for the Devil" Orange crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£290.00
A orange distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Sympathy for the Devil" design. Matching chrome and steel hardware. Derived from our basic workshop guitars, these offer an improved pickup with tone and volume controls, nicer machineheads with a colour coded headstock and block po...
Romeo & Julieta Railhumbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£400.00
Traditional "Romeo & Julieta" cigar box with f-holes and matching chrome hardware. Beechwood through neck with backstrap reinforcement, blackwood tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets, real mother of pearl position dot markers and white side dots with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional...
Workshop Series - Plague Doctor, Lefty - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£190.00
LEFT HANDED. Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Plague Doctor graphics over veneered ply box. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine play-ability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through neck with through body reinforcement, oak fretboard with Van Gent nic...
Handpainted Skulls 'n ' Roses - 3 String CBG with custom hardshell case.
£682.50
A beautiful handpainted box by Anne Zilpha Wormald. The skulls and roses design painted in the Mexican Day of The Dead tradition with chrome hardware including polished steel art deco slotted soundhole covers. Beechwood through neck with black walnut fretboard, Van Gent jumbo nickel silver frets, machine screw nut with white position markers an...