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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

Traveller - Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£400.00
A simple olive stained box with f -holes and a beechwood arm rest for more comfort when playing. This is a 'Take-Down' travel guitar which is designed to fit into an overhead airplane locker, no tools needed, just simply loosen the strings and the neck can be removed. Ideal for a frequent traveller. Beechwood neck, walnut fretboard with Van Gen...

Camacho 'American Barrel' - Humbucker Pickup - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£350.00
A beautiful modern high gloss black and orange "Camacho" special edition 'American Barrel Aged' cigar box lightly marked (these boxes are second hand) with matching chrome hardware. Maple through neck and backstrap, walnut fretboard with Van Gent super-jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers with a machine screw nut. Our gui...

Workshop Series - "185% Blues Trash" Orange - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar LEFTY
£190.00
Left Handed. Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". A bright orange crackle finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "185% Blues Trash" design. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine play-ability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow...

Romeo & Julieta twinrail humbucker 3 String Cigar Box Guitar LEFTY
£350.00
Traditional "Romeo & Julieta" cigar box with Meranti neck -LEFT HANDED Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. White position dots and white edge dot markers, machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished in traditiona...

"New Cuba" Lefty Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£385.00
Left Handed Beautiful traditional style "New Cuba" box with matching chrome hardware and round soundholes. 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. High gloss beechwood through neck and...

Workshop Series, Purple crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Purple crackle finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and tin scratch plate. 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 through body reinfo...

Workshop Series, Plague Doctor - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Plague Doctor graphics over veneered ply box. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Poplar through neck with through body reinforcement, walnut fretboard with Van Gent nickel silver fretwir...

Workshop Series - Custom "Born Under A Bad Sign" Yellow crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£290.00
A bright yellow distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Born Under A Bad Sign" design. Matching chrome and steel hardware. Derived from our basic workshop guitars, these offer an improved pickup with tone and volume controls, with a colour coded headstock and block position marker...

Skulls 'n ' Roses - Red - 3 String CBG
£670.00
A beautiful handpainted box designed by Anne Zilpha Wormald painted by John. The skulls and roses design painted in the Mexican Day of The Dead tradition with chrome hardware, corners and traditional f-sound holes. Maplewood through neck, a laminated sapele and maple heel reinforcement with a blackwood fretboard, Van Gent jumbo nickel silver fr...

"New Cuba" Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£375.00
Beautiful traditional style "New Cuba" box with matching chrome hardware and round soundholes with a mesh cover. 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. High gloss sapelewood through n...

3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box
£80.00
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...

Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box.
£93.00
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...