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 ...

In a corner of the workshop lies a hodge-podge of discarded wooden beams, doors, and furniture, all used to make the cigar boxes, which can sell for thousands of dollars and are prized by wealthy ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

Using a Soviet-era planer, Rene Reyes smoothes the panel of an old cedar door that he will transform into a humidor -- an ornate, handmade box used to preserve Cuba's famous cigars. The Barron's news ...

Using a Soviet-era planer, Rene Reyes smoothes the panel of an old cedar door that he will transform into a humidor -- an ornate, handmade box used to preserve Cuba's famous cigars.