Tunings-wise, 1st, 5th, 1st (octave up) works well - so, DAD or EBE suffice for basic open D and open E tunings. Grab your slide, set up a dirty blues crunch tone and you'll find that piezo pickup is ...

John Park from Make builds his cigar box guitar by plotting and then drilling holes for the strings and tuning pegs. He then adds two scrap pieces of wood trim to create a nut and a bridge to hold ...

Greg has played acoustic guitar “all his life” but when he became interested in slide guitar and open tuning (in which you can change chords by simply placing a finger across all the strings ...

Of course, you don't have to stick to this tuning, or the string gauges; raising the top two strings was easy enough to produce a 'fifths' tuning - G, D, A, E, like a tenor guitar, banjo or mandolin.

If you goWhat: “Cigar Box Guitar” When: Exhibit runs through July 6 Where: Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder Cost: Free More info: artpartsbo… ...

The kick-off for the 19th annual Cigar Box Festival is slated for Friday, June 2, at Salty Nut Brewery. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and anyone who plans to attend is encouraged to bring a chair.

Aurora resident Victor Martinez, 71, plays one of the cigar box guitars he has built. He hopes to begin selling his hand-make cigar box guitars at craft fairs and flea markets this summer.