Guitar Pic of the Week: Cigar Box Guitar

The interesting and intriguing picture above is of a guitar made from a cigar box by Daddy Mojo. You can check out their site to learn more about cigar box guitars and even purchase some. You even get your choice of cigar boxes to use for your own custom guitar. Here's an excerpt from their site:

"Skeptics be warned: a Daddy Mojo Cigar Box Guitar is all you need for super fat authentic slide work. Tune it how you want -- we ship most of ours tuned in open G, but you can try E5 or open D for a great Delta Blues vibe or perhaps G6 or C6 for a more laid back Hawaiian feel. There are just loads of variations! Experiment! On a cigar box guitar your technique gets stripped down to a bare-bones simple approach for both chord and melody work, reminding us of the fat sounds of the olden days."

The guitars were originally built in poor rural parts of the country who didn't have access to the money or tools required to build a high quality guitar. To this day it remains a cottage industry that only a select few know about. For a cheaper selection of cigar box guitars and also a few instructional videos check out Blues Boy Jag's cigar box guitar site.