Hal Leonard Electric Blues Cigar Box Slide Guitar Kit

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Grizzly™: A nod to the outdoors with lavish graphics inspired by the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800’s.

Lace Music Products® is proud to announce the launch new Electric Cigar Box Guitar models for 2021! New for 2021, both models, and now the rest of our lineup feature an adjustable truss rod in both the 3 & 4 string variants.C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply is your increasingly one-stop shop for finding the parts and gear you need for building and playing cigar box guitars, other hand-made instruments, and even store-bought instruments. The original and best! That's no empty boast - I've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. I have made and sold over 2000 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio. Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitarusing our modern parts and fully detailed directions.

I’d also recommend that when you’re building, you sand down the fretboard really well to keep it from scratching your fingers. In “raw form” the fretboards of these kits get pretty rough on your fingers. Another advantage of a Salvage Sounds cigar box guitar is the proportion of the instruments. The most common “scale length” of cigar box guitars elsewhere is 25 inches (this being the string length between the nut and the bridge upon which the fret spacing is based). Our cigar box guitars instead have a comfortable 22.5 inch scale length (inspired by the original Fender Duo-Sonic guitars of the 1950s). We have two cigar box guitar models: The classic “f-hole” with its ornate and instantly recognisable sound-hole shape. And an alternative design built using beautifully intricate paper-covered boxes, with dual metal sound-hole covers (that you may recognise as being a pair of sink strainers!) The cigar box guitar (or CBG) is probably the most commonly known roots instrument, and was the original inspiration for the formation of Salvage Sounds. Thanks to the work of Shane Speal and the Cigar Box Nation movement, more and more people are coming to know of these amazing instruments, full of character and stories to tell. Thank you to Chris from CMR Woodworks for this great demo video featuring our Cigar Box Guitar Kit.

This makes cigar box guitars great for playing the blues because slide guitar is practically a part of the blues genre.