I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

The first thing to ask is: what are you making? An electric guitar? An acoustic? And what shape? Classic dreadnought? A cutaway? If you’re making an instrument for a client, make sure their ...

A tissue box guitar is great fun for your little rock star! Try making one with a kitchen roll tube neck and rubber band strings. When you pluck the strings with your toddler, say words like 'pull' or ...

At the end of the day, all it takes to make a guitar go to eleven is a new knob. Making the knob is another thing — that takes a shop full of machine tools, the expertise to use them, and a whole ...