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We are currently in the process of building about 20 guitars both Workshop Series and Humbucker Cigar Box Guitars which will be ready before Christmas. If you want to reserve one for Christmas or want a custom design workshop guitar please phone or drop us an email.
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

Montecristo - humbucker pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£375.00
Beautiful traditional style Cuban "Montecristo" cigar box with a blackwood arm rest. Beechwood through neck, Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. Pearl face position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods with a gun stock oil and wax fi...

Aroma de Cuba - 3 String humbucker Cigar Box Guitar
£435.00
Beautiful traditional style "Aroma de Cuba" cigar box with a blackwood armrest. (Please note this box is NOT Cuban, but sourced from Nicaragua). Beechwood neck, with a dark distressed stained finish, eco-friendly Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. Real pearl position dots and white edge dot markers with machine screw nut. O...

Garcia - Bronze humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£360.00
Beautiful traditional "Garcia" cigar box with matching bronze hardware. The white box, bronze hardware and lighter toned wood used for the neck makes for a beautiful cigar box guitar. Beechwood through neck with backstrap, laminated and shaped headstock, blackwood fretboard, Van Gent jumbo nickel silver frets, with white position dots and side ...

New Cuba - Twin Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£445.00
Beautiful traditional style "New Cuba" box. The graphics are reproductions of American cigar boxes from the late 19th and early 20th century, on a custom birch ply box. The result is a really resonant guitar which has a nice full acoustic sound. Beechwood through neck, ecologically friendly BlackwoodTek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets....

New World - humbucker "Double Top" - Cigar Box Guitar
£460.00
A simple but beautiful golden "New World Dorado" Nicaragua cigar box. 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. Beechwood through neck, black...

Sugar Skulls ACOUSTIC 3 String Guitar - Fishman pickup.
£495.00
Bright blue "Sugar Skulls" handpainted "Day of the Dead" graphics by ChickenboneJohn on a bold red big box with silver finish corner protectors and matching 'ace of spades' hardware. Special shaped laminated headstock with Der Jung machineheads. This has been built to give maximum acoustic volume with longitudinally braced top, bridge plate 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...

Bolivar, compact pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£255.00
A beautiful traditional Bolivar cigar box from Cuba. Cherrywood through neck, sapele mahogany 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 play...

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...

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...

Workshop Series, rustburst finish - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£180.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Rust burst finish over veneered ply box with distressed zinc plated fixing brackets and 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...

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...