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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
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
£93.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...
James Barber Humbucker, Lefty - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£335.00
Left Handed. All solid wood "James Barber" cigar box, with traditional f-holes. This simple box has made up into a stunningly elegant cigar box guitar with an aged feel to it. Beechwood through neck, black walnut fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. White position dots and white fretboard edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our gui...
New World - humbucker "Double Top" - Cigar Box Guitar
£460.00
A simple but beautiful golden "New World Dorado" Nicaragua cigar box. This special guitar is tuned G D GG, and has a double course top pair of strings, strung with a light gauge octave G on the top. It gives it a chiming tone, and adds a really different sound to your playing, whether fretted or played with a slide. Beechwood through neck, black...
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...
Ashton VSG, Lace Alumitone Matchbook pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£775.00
I've gone all-out to make the ultimate cigar box guitar! Lace pickups in California recently brought out a "Matchbook" version of their Alumitone pickup, specifically designed for cigar box guitars. I've got hold of a small batch of them, and decided to build some very special guitars - and this is one of them. I felt that these special pickup...
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...
One String Canjo - Diddley Bow
£40.00
Crazily simple instrument..one string, fretless..with a strat pickup! Shaped fretless beech neck with gunstock oil finish, open back brinze finish machinehead, strat-style electric pickup, Neutrik jack and d'Addario nickelwound steel string. 25 1/2 inch scale. Marked fretmarkers and position dots. Play it with your fingers or a slide, plug it in...
3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box - BACK IN STOCK!!!
£80.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...