Some time in the 1840’s, American cigar companies began to pack their cigars not in large, bland crates but in small, highly adorned boxes. Some time about ten minutes later, some fellow sitting on a back porch thought to himself, “hey, I could make a guitar out of this!” A cigar-box guitar is, not shockingly, a guitar that uses a cigar box as its body. Shockingly, cigar-box guitars can be exceptionally beautiful. Those who craft well can make the guitar sound fantastic and look even better. In this video we hear a cigar-box guitar that sounds great. If you want to see cigar-box guitars that sound great are works of beauty, start with Snowden guitars. If you want to see cigar-box guitars that may or may not sound great but are certainly cool to see, search ’em up as made by the fine craftsfolk at Etsy.
