Welcome to my Cigar Box Guitar (CBG) page.
It is simply a gallery of the instruments I have made. They aren't all cigar box guitars and some of the photos aren't the best as I wasn't in the habit of documenting them in the early days.
GW#1
One string diddly bow with simple piezo pickup
GW#2
Three-string CBG with single coil pickup. My first three string instrument - I still have this one.
GW#3
One-string diddly bow, oak neck with a tilt back headstock because I wanted to try a scarf joint.
GW#4
Three-string CBG with humbucker pickup.
GW#5
Three-string CBG with single coil pickup.
GW#6
Three-string CBG with single coil pickup. Hand made box and US number plate for the front.
GW#8
Three-string CBG with humbucker pickup. The headstock and nut got changed slightly by the new owner.
GW#12
Six-string CBG using Fender style hardware and bolt on neck. It has single coil and humbucker pickups.
GW#14
Three string CBG. Black Limba neck, tilt back headstock, ebony fretboard and headstock detail. Humbucker pickup.
GW#17
Refurbished TC style guitar. Single coil and P90 pickups.
GW#18
Four-string CBG Bass. Same style box as the 6 string one. P-Bass style pickups.
GW#20
Three-string CBG with sapele neck and fretboard, single coil pickup
GW#21
Three-string CBG, beech/sapele laminated neck, sapele fretboard. Humbucker pickup. My current instrument.
GW#22
Left-handed three string CBG with single coil pickup.
GW#23
6 string oil can guitar, Bolt on neck and single-coil pickup.
GW#24
Three string hub cap fretless slide guitar.
GW#25
Flying-V style refurb dual humbuckers.
GW#26 & GW#27
GW#26 is a four-string CBG and GW#27 is a three-string CBG. Each as a P90 pickup
GW#28
Four-string CBG with p90 pickup.
GW#29 / AC#1
An OM sized acoustic guitar. Spruce soundboard, sapele back, sides and neck. Rosewood fretboard, headstock plate and bridge plate Bone nut and saddle.
GW#30
Three-string CBG with humbucker pickup