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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 - Custom "I Went Down to the Crossroads" Dark Blue crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£290.00
Dark Blue distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "I Went Down To The Crossroads" 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 off...
Workshop Series - Plague Doctor

Workshop Series - Plague Doctor
£190.00
Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Plague Doctor graphics over veneered ply box with a walnut stained distressed finish. 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 body reinforcem...

Montecristo - Fretless - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£135.00
Beautifully simple wooden "Montecristo" cigar box with f - holes. Hand carved sapele wood through neck with a beechwood heel reinforcement, burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish. Distressed machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha nickel wound strings tu...

Partagas "Winged" - Twin Railhumbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£722.75
All wood Partagas cigar box with twin cream railhumbucker pickups. Cherrywood through neck with a laminated reinforcement heel and a carbonfiber through rod reinforcement. Blackwood Tek fretboard with Van Gent super jumbo frets, pearl face markers and white edge dot markers with a bone nut. Shaped tail and laminated and shaped headstock. Our gu...

Padron Fretless - 3 string cigar box guitar
£135.00
Beautiful traditional wooden "Padron" cigar box with f - holes. Hand carved beechwood through neck with a heel reinforcement, burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish, machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha nickel wound strings tuned G, D, G. Fitted with ...

"New Cuba" Humbucker - 3 string cigar box guitar
£390.00
Beautiful traditional style "New Cuba" box with matching chrome hardware and f-holes 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 ashwood through neck and beechwood h...

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...

Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. 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...

Montecristo (Russet) Shortscale Fretless - 3 string cigar box guitar
£135.00
Genuine "Montecristo" cigar box with a russet distressed finish and f-holes. Hand carved one piece maplewood through neck with burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a matching russet distressed look, hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish. Distressed machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha ni...

Montecristo (Dark Oak) Shortscale Fretless - 3 string cigar box guitar
£135.00
Genuine "Montecristo" cigar box with a dark oak distressed finish and f-holes. Hand carved one piece maplewood through neck with burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a matching dark distressed look, hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish. Distressed machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha ni...

Diamond Crown (Chrome) - fretless 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£135.00
Beautifully simple wooden "Diamond Crown" cigar box with round sound holes. Hand carved sapele wood through neck with a heel reinforcement, burnt in fretmarkers and position dots. Finished with a hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish, machine screw nut. 22 3/4 inch scale. Balanced tension Zilpha nickel wound strings tuned G, D, G...