Two-, three-, and four-string guitars made from cigar boxes with frets installed. Headstocks are hand-carved and chiseled, all necks are hardwood, and each can be played either as an acoustic or an electric/amplified.
Antique brass hardware and humbucker pickup adorn this Padron cigar box with purple heart wood fretboard and oak-and-purple heart wood headstock. Glow in the dark fret markers help you rock in the dark!
Padron boxes are coveted by builders for their thin but strong top panels that resonate well and create a great tone.
This guitar has been donated for a cigar box guitar permanent exhibit in Gadsden, Alabama.
This Padron box has a resonator cone and cover with a rosewood circular bridge, shower drain sound holes, a "Texas Yardstick" fretboard, and chrome humbucker pickup.
The tailpiece is a door strike plate, and the headstock is laminated with oak and cedar.
This guitar is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
Camacho boxes are shiny and this 21-fret is small but mighty! A single-pole pickup is cradled in pearl white, with matching tone and volume knobs and jack port. The fretboard is maple on an oak neck, with the hand-carved oak and red cedar headstock.
This 19-fret guitar has an antiqued poplar fretboard, walnut fret markers, a recessed flat "Seven Fitty" MGB pickup under a gold cover, handmade floating bridge and gold volume and tone knobs.
Padron boxes are coveted by builders for their thin but strong top panels that resonate well and create a great tone.
This guitar is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
A Leather Rose box with a "Fat Bottom Betty" pickup cover hiding a ghosted MGB flat humbucker. This three-string has dulcimer fretting on a graceful MGB neck. Gold hardware with a hardtail bridge. With the dulcimer fretting on the specific scale this is very light and easy to play!
Fretted African wenge hardwood fretboard, antique brass hardware and an MGB micro pickup. Boutique volume and tone knobs, and a hand-carved oak and cedar headstock. The Cigar Factory boxes make a beautiful sound.
Three- and four-string guitars made without frets, generally played with a slide. Headstocks are hand-carved and chiseled, all necks are hardwood, and each can be played either as an acoustic or an electric/amplified.
This layered Partahas box has a gold hot rail pickup, gold roller top-loading hardtail bridge, gold and "bakelite" style tuners and boutique gold and green volume and tone knobs.
The fretless oak board has rosewood markers, and is topped with a rock-style cedar and oak headstock.
The hand-carved oak and cedar headstock holds a five-yen coin ("Go-yen") for luck. Japanese magnolia blossoms decorate the fretless hardwood fretboard with copper wire inlay to mark the fret locations.
A single pole pickup is set in the Rising Sun license plate, and the transluscent volume and tone knobs are adorned with mother-of-pearl bird insets.
Can play clear ringing tones, or, like Japan, can rock and growl with the best of them. A lot of work is in this guitar.
A three-string fretless with an MGB "Seven Fiddy" single coil pickup under an antique brass cover with matching hardware. The padauk fretboard is topped with a hand-carved oak and cedar headstock. Terrific swamp slide sound, and rocks hard with distortion.
This guitar is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
Three- and four-string guitars made from license plates on a custom box, typically fretted. Headstocks are hand-carved and chiseled, all necks are hardwood, and each can be played either as an acoustic or an electric/amplified.
A 1949 plate in amazing shape is the centerpiece of this three-string with single-pole pickup. The fretboard is wenge hardwood with 17 frets and oak fret markers, with mother-of-pearl side dots. Black hardware and Gibson-style black volume and tone knobs.
1962 red Ohio plate on a handmade box. This three-string has a rosewood fretboard with 17-frets and offset mother-of-pearl markers and side dots. Chrome hardware and a Fender-style single-pole pickup.
1969 Arkansas license plate mounted on a handmade cedar box with a hand-carved laminated oak and cedar headstock. The fretboard is a "Texas Yardstick" with mother-of-pearl markers set in ebony. Chrome hardware. hardtail bridge, and a single-pole pickup makes it a versatile instrument.
This 17-fret license plate guitar is a homemade box using "curbside" wood (discarded desk drawers, my favorite). The layered hardwood headstock has an art deco feel, with antique brass tuners. A powerful MGB "Lucky 13" humbucker pickup is hidden just under the plate.
This guitar is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
This is primarily a slide guitar, although the rough nail frets are not far off.
This is an early work, and so not as polished or intoned as others, but as a baritone-length guitar, it has a deeper rolling sound. You may need baritone guitar strings as some standard guitar strings will be too short for the middle run. Antique wooden tuners sit on a high-angled headstock, with strings stretched across a floating bridge at the tail. Black and gold hat volume and tuner knobs.
Vintage 1936 plate on a homemade box with a single-pole pickup. Top-of-box volume and tone knobs, floating bridge, and oak neck and fretboard with a hand-carved oak and cedar rock-style headstock.
This guitar is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
These are guitars that - in the spirit of "anything goes" in the late 1800's to early 1900's - are built of most anything. As always, how they sound is the most important consideration. They may or may not be fretted.
The soundboard is an artist's vision of Egyptian temples on the water. Ghosted beneath is a "Lucky 13" MGB pickup, controlled by gold "Eye of Ra" volume and tone knobs. The box is handmade from rich red cedar, and an Egyptian coin commemorating an expansion of the Suez Canal is embedded in the walnut fretboard.
The tailpiece is a gold door strikeplate pulling strings over a floating bridge.
A Number 23 Cuba crate echoes deep resonator sound with a huge dog bowl on top. (Sorry, Spot.) This is a 14-fret, four-string, all-acoustic guitar with a walnut fretboard and oak fret markers. Slat openings in the back of the crate and two springs stretched inside the body give a great resonating tone. Chrome hardware, a commercial door strike plate for a tailpiece, and a Havana travel sticker for splash.
The box is an art collaboration by Norman-area artist and poet Barry Zimmerman. The street-chalk style box, a reverse-headstock carved from laminated cedar and oak, and a zebrawood fretboard with glow-in-the-dark fretmarkers give this guitar an utterly unique look. The large dog bowl resonates well for either acoustic or electric effect.
This is an 18-fret three string guitar with four-pole pickup, walnut fretboard, oak fret inlays, bottlecap volume and tone knobs, with a handmade bridge on an upside-down cat food bowl, all built around a discarded cabinet drawer found by the side of the road. It is almost the size of an acoustic dreadnought, and has amazing resonating sound.
Built from reclaimed cabinet drawers, this four-string sports a multi-hardwood layered headstock, padauk fretboard with oak inlay, chrome hardware, and a full-size resonator pan and cover complete with traditional tailpiece.
Recently upgraded with a chrome humbucker pickup, volume and tone controls. Excellent for fretting or slide guitar, with a Mississippi Delta sound.
The "Go-Yen" Lucky Piece Japanese Plate Guitar
This 3-string electric fretless guitar sports a Rising Sun license plate on a handmade box with hardwood details, a hand-carved cedar and oak headstock, copper wire inlay fret markers, and Japanese magnolia blossom artwork on the fretboard. A five-yen coin is set in the headstock ("Go-Yen" in Japanese means good luck).
Good for busking or front porch playing
Twin speakers set in a vintage Samsonite hard shell suitcase with a Footnote 5-watt amplifier. Comes with a battery pack that holds 8 AA batteries for busking and such. Also usable with a 9v AC adapter (not included). The amp plate also contains ports for pedals.
Batteries last a surprisingly long time. Strong sound.
A heavy midrange speaker in a dark green Plascencia cigar box. On/off switch, black and green speed knob for volume 9v battery.
This amp is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
Twin speakers with tweeters set in a vintage Samsonite hard shell Pearl suitcase with a Footnote 5-watt amplifier. Comes with a battery pack that holds 8 AA batteries for busking and such. Also usable with a 9v AC adapter (not included). The amp plate also contains ports for pedals.
Batteries last a surprisingly long time. Large sound from this one.
Monster eyes, a hazard sign, and chrome red-eyed skull volume knob. Very portable tabletop amp with good sound.
This old suitcase is brought back to life as an amp with a 12" speaker and smaller midrange. Simple on/off volume knob, travel stickers, and space inside for cables and stuff!
This amp is for sale at The Cottage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Call (405) 603-7493 for purchase and shipping.
This Bluetooth speaker contains a midrange and tweeter combination that throws big, beautiful sound. Perfect for a bookshelf or cabinet top. Plug it in and rock music around the house from your phone or tablet!
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