I mentioned in the last post that I had completed gluing the body together and the next step would be cutting a channel in the top and back ...

This acoustic guitar building project has been a great learning experience.  I've created special tools, and I'm learning how to use...

After leaping into the acoustic guitar building arena, there was ample activity in creating jigs and tools especially associated with the pr...

In a prior post concerning the acoustic guitar kit I received, I mentioned the need for special tools and jigs, and there are many.  I resea...

To me there is a giant crevasse on the journey of making cigar box guitars and transitioning to dreadnaught acoustics, but I made the leap. ...

I picked up the last oak neck I had in the inventory, looked it over, and thought, 'what am I going to do with this?'  A Padron ciga...

I most nearly froze my butt this morning shooting photos of 'The Lion' , which is the most recent creation coming out of my shop. ...

Testing the magnetic pickups (pups) I've been making has been a pain in the butt, because I have been lazy and not created a method by w...

'Romeo' is a four-string electric guitar created from a Romeo y Julieta cigar box. The box construction does not facilitate mak...

You may remember a post several weeks ago, where I posted a photo of the main parts of a vintage vice I found at the flea market.  Well, her...

I'm not back in the guitar shack, yet, but I'm getting close. It's only been two weeks (almost to the hour) since I got a n...

I got this really cool Montecristo 'Epic' cigar box from my buddy Ed Paxton, owner of Woodland Cigars, but I didn't have a clue ...

The 'Hurricane' is a three-string acoustic/electro guitar created from CAO Fabrica de Tabacos cigar box.  The cherry wood neck...