[devane617]

I suspect I have several HUNDRED old boxes, maybe more. I have smoked cigars for years, and have kept most of the boxes. Maybe this is the ticket to riches...

[martin_fierro]

If this pinhead can make a go of it, I say take a shot!

[John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?]

Some box's are very desirable for making this 4 sting instrument. The old paper covered woods that are of an Americana history are quite desirable. Go to http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cigarboxguitars/ and you will see althings cigar box. It is quite a revolution at this present time. Many of the root players of the early 1900’s learned to play on one sting diddy bows and cigar box instruments. There have been old pictures found of civil war era musicians playing fiddles made from them. I play around with guitars mostly noodling and playing a little slide and I had a person make me one only to find that with only four stings you better know what your doing. There is a guy named John Lowen who makes them out of old broom handles and cigar box's. One guy can’t remember his name makes a turbodiddy one that Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top plays. So maybe your stash of boxes very well could be a gold mine.

[RightWhale]

When kids used to make their first radio with the crystal the instructions started with: take a cigar box.