My friend Jasper Rubenstein created this really cool four-string slide guitar from a couple of Jaguar hubcaps. If you want to get a ...

TotalRojo Cigar Box Guitars is a small one-man operation specializing in one-of-a-kind creations.   My name is Jess Allred a...

For several months, my sons have been saying, "Dad, you should make a guitar of your own design, you can do it!" After kicking...

My friend Jasper shared a couple shots of a Telecaster he reworked to give it a aging relic look.  I don't know how it plays, but it sur...

I've been having a great time for the past couple years creating very playable guitars from cigar boxes and other found objects -- wood ...

A couple months ago, I found a Chippendale silver plated bowl on eBay, which I thought could be the body of a really cool guitar. The ...

This is the latest from the stable of my Australian friend Jef Long.  I met Jef a couple years ago, while surfing the cigarboxguitarsaustr...

The latest creation in my stable of silver serving dish guitars is a four-string electro/acoustic built around an oval-shaped silver-plated ...

Several weeks ago I traded a guitar for a 'crazy one-string thing' (see previous post). I didn't know at the time I traded wh...

I'd never heard of, or laid eyes on, a banjolele until my friend Carlton Gill-Blyth and I traded a couple weeks ago (you probably read...

I once again had the opportunity to ship a guitar to a Marine in Afghanistan. Ist Sgt. John Thompson wrote today to let me know that he re...

The Irish connection is working! Today, I received the parcel from Carlton Gill-Blyth my Irish buddy, which is the stuff he traded me for ...

Last Thursday, I shipped a parcel to my new buddy Carlton Gill-Blyth in Ireland via US Postal Service Priority Mail.  He received it today -...

Creating a cigar box guitar changes the way you think. I vaguely remember going to a hardware store, a secondhand store, a swap meet, or...

I was reading various posts on Cigar Box Nation , when I bumped into something a member had shared. He introduced us to the The Loog Gui...

Went to the monthly swap meet this morning, and bumped into a new set of CP  bongos.  The guy was asking 30 bucks, but what's the purp...

Well, I'm back at it. Several weeks ago I was rummaging around in an antique store and ran across a very old two-part silver serving  ...

There is abundant information available on the Internet regarding the construction and use of a transducer (Piezo).  But, the purpose of thi...

I had the opportunity recently to 'enjoy' the medical miracle of removing an irregularly shaped stone from my kidney by way of a l...

Gotta have one of these.  Just think of the melodies that will come to mind when you're standing there doing your business.

I've not posted in a couple weeks, but there is a good reason. My wife was diagnosed with a serious heart condition, which required su...

My friend Art took this photo recently while on a trip to Capetown, South Africa.  

I was pleasantly surprised a couple days ago, when I received a note from my 'old' friend Marv. He writes occasionally, but most ...

I recently visited my primary health care doctor.  After exhaustive lab tests, he proclaimed I was doing 'well' for my age.  I jus...