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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
Resonator - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£740.00
Super special and ubercool three string resonator guitar. Birchwood box with a russet sunburst design and matte shellac finish. F- holes, bronze corner protectors and bronze hardware has produced a beautiful toned down cigar box guitar. One piece maple through neck with a shaped slotted headstock. Ecologically friendly blackwood Tek fretboard ...
Fujikyu Artec Humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£377.00
A simple sunburst box lightly distressed with a japan company packing box stencil logo. F-holes soundholes and matching chrome hardware has made a simple but beautiful cigar box guitar. Beechwood through neck and blackwood tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White face position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut...
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 ...
Special compact pickup - 4 String Cigar Box Guitar
£330.00
Beautiful traditional style "Special" box with art-deco slotted 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. Beechwood through neck and heel with black walnut fretboard with Van ...
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...
Kristoff Fretless - 3 string cigar box guitar
£130.00
Simple dark wood "Kristoff" cigar box with f-holes. Hand carved beechwood through neck with backstrap reinforcement, burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a medium stain, hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish. Distressed machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha nickel wound strings tuned G, D...
Workshop Series - "Sympathy for the Devil" Yellow - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Bright yellow crackle finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and handpainted lettering design. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow poplar through neck, throu...
Workshop Series - Custom "Hoodoo Spirit" blue crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar LEFTY
£290.00
A blue distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Hoodoo"" design. LEFT HANDED 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 position markers to match the box. These off...
Workshop Series - "Born Under A Bad Sign" Green - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£190.00
A green distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with distressed zinc plated fixing brackets and hardware with a hand painted "Born Under A Bad Sign" design. Yellow poplar through neck with "backstrap" thru' body reinforcement, distressed stained finish with a walnut fretboard and Van Gent nickel silver jumbo fretwire. Burnt in face...
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...
Partagas Railhumbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£400.00
All wood "Partagas" cigar box with f-holes and matching bronze hardware. Beechwood through neck and backstrap reinforcement, walnut fretboard, Van Gent super-jumbo frets with pearl face dots and white side position dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods with shellac, gun stock ...