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The original and best! That's no empty boast - we've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. We have made and sold over 2400 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio.
All our guitars are set up for easy fretted and slide playing - as a guitar player I understand how a guitar should perform. We source the best components for the price, and carefully craft them into truly gig-worthy instruments, with unparalleled playability and tone.
We build to a quality, not down to a price - wherever possible we use European and North American timbers. We also use European and USA made components such as Van Gent machineheads & fretwire, d'Addario and Newtone strings, Van Damme cable, Neutrik & Switchcraft connectors etc, instead of relying on cheaper "sweatshop economy" parts.
We now have our own range of custom made stainless steel parts featured on some of our guitars - tailpieces, jack sockets and control plates. These are designed by us and manufactured right here in the UK West Midlands.
We ship guitars worldwide, and all our guitars are packed with care, double-boxed in custom made twinwall corrugated card boxes. When ordering a guitar please include a phone number with the delivery information.
We stand behind our products, and are proud to say that our guitars come with a 3 year guarantee.
CUSTOM ORDERS - We are pleased to announce that we are once again taking orders for custom guitars. If you can't find a guitar that you like on our site, or have seen one of our earlier guitars that you'd like, we can make one for you! We ask for 50% deposit, and delivery time is typically 2-3 months. We can advise on specification and special features, and will give you a fixed price quote, including shipping anywhere worldwide.
Cigar Box Guitars
Workshop Series, fretless russet burst finish - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£185.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Russet burst finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and cigarbox pickguard. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through neck with backstrap through bo...
Partagas twin pickup deluxe - SwitchMeister 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£530.00
All wood "Partagas" cigar with laminated Meranti and Poplar neck Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real mother of pearl position dots and white edge dot markers, real bone nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished in tradition...
Partagas- humbucker "Double Top" - Cigar Box Guitar
£460.00
All wood "Partagas" cigar box, custom polished stainless steel deco style soundholes. This special guitar is tuned G D GG, and has a double course top pair of strings, strung with a light gauge octave G on the top. It gives it a chiming tone, and adds a really different sound to your playing, whether fretted or played with a slide. Laminated Me...
Hoyo De Monterrey humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£350.00
Traditional "Hoyo de Monterrey" cigar box with bronze hardware. Ash through neck with beechwood backstrap, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great play-ability and comfortable i...
Por Laranaga humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£350.00
Traditional "Por Laranaga" cigar box with bronze hardware. Ash through neck with beech backstrap, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great play-ability and comfortable in-the-han...
Partagas humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£350.00
Traditional "Partagas" cigar box with chrome hardware. Ashwood through neck with sapele backstrap, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great play-ability and comfortable in-the-ha...
Camacho Red - humbucker pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£375.00
Beautiful high gloss "Camacho" cigar box with deco style custom stainless steel soundhole trims and trapeze tailpiece. Ash through neck with beech backstrap, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using tradition...
Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar
£405.00
6 String cigar box guitar, Danelectro style maple neck with rosewood fretboard. This guitar is built and set up to play easily - the action at the 12th fret is 1.5mm with d'Addario 10 gauge strings. Fitted with dual action trussrod. The modern style tele bridge, tele pattern control knobs and 3 way pickup selector switch. The guitar is built wit...
Camacho Orange- humbucker pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£375.00
Beautiful high gloss "Camacho" cigar box with ace of spades style custom stainless steel soundhole trims and trapeze tailpiece. Ash through neck with beech backstrap, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using ...
Workshop Series, red crackle "Crossroads"- 3 String Cigar Box Guitar REVIEWED
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Red crackle finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and signwritten graphics. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow poplar through neck, through body reinforcem...
Montecristo short scale fretless - 3 string cigar box guitar
£120.00
Genuine "Montecristo" cigar box with singlecoil compact pickup. Hand carved oak through neck, sapele fretboard with burned-in fretmarkers and position dots. with hand rubbed gunstock oil and final wax coat finish. Machine screw nut and sapele bridge with fretwire saddle. 22 3/4 inch scale Fitted with antique bronze finish openback machineheads...
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box. - BACK IN STOCK!!!
£88.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...