I saw a guitar stand in Acoustic Guitar magazine a while back that I thought would be really cool for a couple reasons -- to keep the guitar...

I've gotten away from creating guitars from cigar boxes the past couple months, but I haven't abandoned that side of my hobby, just ...

My wife caught me last night carving on the newest six-string creation.  Since the 'Big Foot' build, an idea has been floating ar...

A couple years ago, my buddy Bruce talked me into joining the OP Nascar Fantasy League .  It's a collection of more than a hundred die ...

I've been looking for several months for a 'good' wood rasp (the big box stores have tools, but for the most part they are ov...

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...