Maker Workshop – Cigar Box Guitar on Make: television
June 23, 2010 25 comments
With a piece of oak, some string and a cigar box, John Park creates a three-stringed guitar. The cigar box acts as the resonating soundboard for the instrument. John then wires the guitar to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp and makes it really rock.
this guy is fucking nuts!
“Now I’ll feed this through the hole, pull it up over the bridge, through the groove, across the nut, and back down the hole.” THATZ WUT SHE SED LOL
There is no such thing as “a tradition in cigar box guitars”, but sure, three strings is pretty common.
Wasn’t this dude on the Colbert Report two nights ago?
wtf did i just witness?!?
I loved this!
Crap build but the lead guitarist at the end was actually quite good.
Your cigar box guitar = fail. And so does your band. Douchetacular.
what tape recorder is that? can u use just any?
@vacantsam Because, that’s not as fun as doing it yourself!
@xCYNICOUTCASTx There is no wrong when doing it yourself!
this is so awesome!
wow this guys should not try to make cigar gitboxes. that was terrible
this is very wrong, hes stuck the neck, ON the box, not IN the box.
@nosliwtheprophet piezo transducer, can find them at radio shack
7:37 faking to play guitar
Wow, that’s the hoariest shit I have ever seen… did someone tell him that fret position actually matters?
i am no music god by any means however that sounded terrible at the end.
keyso transducer?
is that what he said?
Thanks for the information.
And this from a super power nation.
You should connect the cigar boxes via your string to a garbage bin for amplification.
great video but rather use other things like guitar strings….tuners….
lol
Music’s so shit at the end…
Cool idea and project, but it is pretty ghetto-fab.