I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

Cigar box, at least 6-in. x 6 in. x 3 in. Plexiglass or acrylic, about the size of the top of your cigar box Flat black spray paint 20-gauge wire Glue: silicone, epoxy, or hot glue Solder Velcro ...

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

Or at least probably not. To attach the wrapper to the rest of the cigar they use a glue such as egg whites, guar gum or tragacanth. I had to look up tragacanth.