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The original and best! That's no empty boast - I've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. I have made and sold over 2000 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio.
All my guitars are set up for easy fretted and slide playing - I'm a guitar player, so I understand how a guitar should perform. I source the best components for the price, and carefully craft them into truly gig-worthy instruments, with unparalleled playability and tone.
I build to a quality, not down to a price - wherever possible I use European and North American timbers. I 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.
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 "Custom" - Sympathy for the Devil, blue crackle
£270.00
A dark blue distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Sympathy For The Devil" design. Derived from our basic workshop guitars, these offer an improved pickup with tone and volume controls, nicer machineheads with a colour coded headstock and fretboard to match the box. These offer ge...

Workshop Series - Fretless distressed lefty - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£165.00
Left Handed. Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". A dark distressed finish over veneered ply box with aged zinc plated fixing brackets and tinplate scratchplate. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine play-ability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through ne...

Brickhouse cigar box soprano ukulele
£135.00
Groovy little soprano uke made on a "Brickhouse" cigar box. 13 7/8 inch scale length 20 1/2 inch long overall Mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard and bridge Quality sealed machineheads Bone nut Fitted with piezo pickup and Fishman battery powered pre-amp (with tone and volume controls neatly mounted inside the edge of the soundhole) for a full and...

Cohiba, Big Blue Treble and Bass humbucker - 3 string cigarbox guitar
£475.00
Stunning "Cohiba" cigar box with custom stainless steel "Ace of Spades" soundhole covers. This guitar has a proper bass string to give an amazing punchy extra depth to your sound. Cherrywood through neck, black walnut fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real mother of pearl position dots and white fretboard edge dot markers. Bone nut...
New Mexico, licence plate Lace Alumitone, Micro-angle adjustable neck - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

New Mexico, licence plate Lace Alumitone, Micro-angle adjustable neck - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£565.00
Super cool deluxe 3 string guitar made on a custom box with a genuine USA licence plate on distressed paint finish. Xtra special quality features - our own stainless steel bridge, bone nut, micro-angle adjustable neck, Lace Alumitone humbucking pickup. Made in the UK. Cherrywood through neck, Black Walnut fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo f...
Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware

Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware
£565.00
6 String cigar box guitar, maple neck and fretboard, aged copper hardware. 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 maple neck and fretboard has been given an aged stain and has been hand finished in gunstock oil to a beautiful sat...

Workshop Series, White crackle "Hoodoo Potion"
£180.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". White crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and handpainted "Hoodoo Love me or Die Potion" lettering. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine play-ability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Pop...

Garcia - Bronze humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£320.00
Beautiful traditional "Garcia" cigar box with matching bronze hardware. The white box, bronze hardware and lighter toned wood used for the neck and fretboard makes for a beautiful cigar box guitar. Beechwood through neck with backstrap, walnut fretboard, Van Gent jumbo nickel silver frets, with burnt in position dots, side markers and a machine...

Brickhouse, compact pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£235.00
Deep black Brickhouse cigar box with round sound holes. Cherrywood through neck, Blackwood Tek fretboard, Van Gent super-jumbo frets with white face and side position dot markers and finished with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods with a gun stock oil and wax polished finish for great pla...

The Scaffold Board - 3 String Guitar
£675.00
This solid body 3 string guitar is made from reclaimed scaffold board with a lightly distressed finish and matching bronzed hardware. The wings provide the perfect balance on the strap and ultimate comfort for play whilst seated. A solid yellow poplar and sapele laminated neck with a distressed stain finish, an environmentally sustainable blackw...

Montecristo humbucker pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£345.00
Beautiful traditional style Cuban "Montecristo" cigar box with round sound holes and finished with a beech wood arm rest. Beechwood through neck, 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...

H.Upmann compact, lefty - 3 string cigar box guitar
£250.00
Left Handed. Beautifully simple traditional style "H.Upmann" box with round soundholes. Cherrywood through neck, 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 comfort...