Cigar Box Ukes || Don't Get Around Much Any More

The Fetish for the Handrafted Cigar Box Continues...

Crickey! Look at these beauties!

I copied the picture a few days back and

did NOT get a link! Whoops... looks like fun!

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If anybody knows whom I should credit, please let me know.

Talking Heads || Nothing But Flowers

Italian Libero Video



Here's another video from Libero... making cigars. Hey that's where the cigar box guitars and ukes get their start. (Fred Rogers could have produced this video.)

Fretless Cigar Box Guitar with Slide

Jason W. and Ashley S.

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My oldest son, Jason Matthew, has always had a bit of an edge to him. He's now 28 and doing a job that he loves. He gets to travel to every corner and county of the state. He recently stopped in after one of his trips and had a thick beard going. He said he was going to grow it ZZ Top style: long and grey, well atleast long.

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When Jason was younger he and I would play the recorder together. He had a great ear so we bought him a nice used saxophone. Within a week he could play it by ear. He was playing the Star Spangled Banner! Now Guitar Hero has been his tool for unwinding. I want to build him a fretless 3-string box guitar with a glass slide and a pick up -- much like one played here. I think it would be fun for him and fit in a bit better with the ZZ Top motif.

CIGAR -*- BOX -*- NATION

Doogey mentions CIGAR BOX NATION in his quotation of the previous post. I think Cigar Box Nation needs it's very own posting...

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/

This is a G-R-E-A-T site to check out on several levels: art, creativity and music. Judy on Ukulele Perspective just finished several beautiful cigar box ukes.

http://ukuleleperspective.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/cigarbox-ukuleles-on-the-wall/

Here's CBG with dulci-boxes:
http://chicagocbg.blogspot.com/

BLUES BOX 3-STRINGERS (El Jeffe's Sidetrack)

I have been impressed with these 3-stringers. I checked out Dulcimers, Balalaikas, Domras and then these 3-string cigar box instruments. I have had a real nice cigar box around for years now. Perhaps I'll give it a try. Click the entry title to get to the Three String Guitars ~ Primal Americana BLOG.

Jake - Antebellum Instruments - Old Cigar Box Uke

I periodically like to check my link to Jake Wildwood's Antebellum Instruments blog. I have been looking at some of these "homemade" instruments recently on eBay. [Keni Lee Burgess has some great videos on YT with 3, 4, and 6 string cigar box guitars.] Some are fretless for sliding bottleneck blues. Jake takes pictures of his adopted and repaired instruments as if they were his children - click the title above to see this old cigar box ukulele entry as well has hear him sing play on this vintage instrument. Thank you Jake, HU