Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution
Part DIY guide, part scrapbook - this book takes you behind the music to get a glimpse into the faces, places and workshops of the cigar box revolution.
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Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution
Part DIY guide, part scrapbook - this book takes you behind the music to get a glimpse into the faces, places and workshops of the cigar box revolution.
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Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution

Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution

by David Sutton
Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution

Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for the Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution

by David Sutton

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Overview

Part DIY guide, part scrapbook - this book takes you behind the music to get a glimpse into the faces, places and workshops of the cigar box revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565235472
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/01/2012
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Sutton is a highly successful photographer who says that he enjoys woodworking almost as passionately. His portraits of people and their pets have been featured extensively in national media including the Today Show and Animal Planet, as well as in the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Chicago Sun-Times and Crain's Chicago Business. He has also exhibited his work in numerous venues including Hermés of Paris and Takishimaya New York.

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The Cigar Box Guitar Renaissance

According to Wikipedia, cigar boxes as we know them were invented around 1840. And sometime after that, an enterprising, now forgotten recycler decided that an empty cigar box could double as an instrument body. The cigar box guitar (and fiddle and everything else) was born.

Cigar box guitars have been documented for at least 100 years. For decades, they were a staple of poor, creative bluesmen throughout the South (Lightnin' Hopkins included). In recent history, thanks to a few cigar box guitar evangelists, the internet and the increasing numbers of all things handmade, cigar boxes are more popular than ever.

Author David Sutton's new book for Fox Chapel, Cigar Box Guitars: The Ultimate DIY Guide for Makers and Players of the Handmade Music Revolution, literally covers the nuts and bolts of cigar box assembly. There are interviews with some of the cigar box's most innovative builders and players, too (including Shane Speal, the self-proclaimed "King of the Cigar Box Guitar"). Most importantly, there are gorgeous photos of guitars and detailed, step-by-step plans on how to build your own instruments.

As you read this beautiful 224 page book, it's hard not to want to build a cigar box of your own. In a world where vintage and collectible guitars continue to be pricey, serious business, these funky little music tools are just plain fun. Cigar box guitars come in all shapes, sizes and string configurations. The builder's imagination dictates everything.

Table of Contents

Foreword (by Bill Jehle, author of One Man's Trash: A History of the Cigar Box Guitar)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gallery of Guitars
Chapter 2: Meet the Makers
Chapter 3: Making A Cigar Box Guitar

*Tools and Materials

*Making the neck and headstock

*Fret board

*Box preparation

*Nut and bridge

*Stringing the guitar

Chapter 4: Projects

*Basic CGB (step-by-step)

*Electric CGB (step-by-step)

*Cigar Box Telecaster

Chapter 5: Tuning and Playing Your CGB: A Primer

*Sidebars throughout containing interesting info about cigar box guitars and their makers/players.

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