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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

Illinois Licence Plate 3 String Guitar - Micro-angle adjustable neck REVIEWED
£505.00
Super cool deluxe 3 string guitar made on a custom box with a genuine USA licence plate. Crackle paint finish with plated corner protectors. Xtra special quality features - through-body strung stainless steel bridge, real bone nut. Laminated sapele and walnut through neck, BlackwoodTek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets. This has a comfo...

3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box.
£75.00
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 - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box.
£91.00
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...

"Special" - bronze humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£355.00
Beautiful traditional style "Special" box with matching bronze hardware. 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. Aged ace of spades soundhole hardware with a dark blackwood arm rest to ...

Workshop Series - Plague Doctor, Lefty - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£180.00
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 play-ability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through neck with through body reinforcement, teak fretboard with Van Gent nickel silver f...

Cortes - Fretless lefty - 3 string cigar box guitar
£80.00
Left Handed. Genuine light "Cortes" cigar box made from solid Spanish cedar wood with round sound holes. Piezo pickup bridge produces a great sound for at home or busking performances. Dark oak stained yellow poplar through neck with a simple round over, a traditional paper fret marker and a machine screw nut. These have been really popular at ...

Flor de las Antillas - Fretless lefty - 3 string cigar box guitar
£110.00
Left Handed. Genuine "Flor de las Antillas" cigar box. A beautiful small box perfect for the shorter scale singlecoil fretless cigar box guitar. Compact single coil pickup, hand carved sapele wood through neck with burnt fret markers and position dots, finished with a hand rubbed gunstock oil and wax coating. Machine screw nut and bridge. These ...

One String Canjo - Diddley Bow
£40.00
Crazily simple instrument..one string, fretless..with a strat pickup! Shaped fretless poplar neck with a simple wax finish, open back machinehead, strat-style electric pickup, Neutrik jack and d'Addario nickelwound steel string. 25 1/2 inch scale. Marked fretmarkers and position dots. Play it with your fingers or a slide, plug it in and and mak...

Ramon humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£380.00
Wonderfully bright "Ramon Allones" cigar box with ashwood wings for a perfect balance on the strap and ultimate comfort for seated playing with matching chrome hardware makes for a stunning cigar box guitar. Ashwood through neck, with backstrap reinforcement, eco-freindly Blackwood TEK fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets, white face and si...