Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...

Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

It's always a shame to throw out a perfectly good cigar box, which is why Neal Demazure's Custom Cedar Cigar Box Powered Speakers are so appealing. They're also pretty simple: Take a pair of ...

WHAT have oil cans, tobacco tins, planks of wood, cigar boxes and even a Honda 200cc racing cart engine all got in common? Amazingly, they’ve all been turned into guitars by ‘Chickenbone’ John, who ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

Edward Cockerill's father was posted to India during World War 2. When he returned to Leicestershire he brought these wooden cigar and jewellery boxes. "My father went to war in about 1940 when I was ...

The electronics I used in this project consist of: 1 Mono Audio Jack (1/4") 1 Piezoelectric Transducer 1 Potentiometer (must use one with a 5 Meg Ohm rating or better) Other parts and tools required: ...