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Get a Cigar Box Guitar, look cool, play it everywhere and go back to the roots of the Real Blues and Country Music with an American Clasic...

The Real Thing!


 

Red Neck Cigar Box Guitars

Necessity is the mother of invention. This saying finds it's truth in the creation of the cigar box guitar. This style of guitar has been around for a hundred and fifty years, and just as the music it represents, it is truly an American art form.

Believe it or not, but there was a simpler time, when friends and families sat on the front porch to 'catch up' with each other. They would play music and sing songs together for their entertainment. If you couldn't afford an instrument, you made your own. That's right, with your own two hands and ingenuity, you made an instrument with the things you had laying around. The home was the original birth place of the cigar box guitar and other similar instruments that would latter shape and influence some of the best musicians of our modern time. Many great guitar players got their start on a home made cigar box guitar. Jimi Hendrix, Lightning Hopkins and even B.B. King, all got started on cigar box guitars.

The cigar box as we know it today didn't exist until the mid 1800's, before that cigars were shipped in larger boxes of 100 or more cigars. When smaller boxes of 20-50 cigars were introduced and cigar smoking gained in popularity, there were a lot of empty cigar boxes laying around just waiting for something to be made of them with a spark of creativity. These boxes would find a lot of different uses throughout the years, but none as practical, ingenious or inspirational as the cigar box guitar. The cigar box guitar was simple and at times crude in it's design, basically it was a box and a stick, throw some strings on it and start plucking away. Because these were made cheaply and with found materials, there were no rules to making them, it was whatever worked.

Famous People and Red Neck Guitars

Where it all began..

Couple of Old Time Soldiers in a Re Enactment Civil War Camp and their Red Neck Guitar

 

Matt Daniel's - The Famous Country Singer and Star (Winnetou) of the International and well known Karl May Festival in Germany, owns and plays, one of our exclusive special made Guitars - The Jack Daniel's old 7, 3 string Guitar.
See him at: karlmay-festspiele.de


 

 

All Guitars are handmade.

Acoustic and electrical available....

To order yours, send us a mail and we will get back to you with available items, pics., cost and delivery time.

Workshops available in your hometown.


 

Wholesale
Have a shop? Doing fairs this Season?
Attention EU wholesalers, we offer our Cigar Box Guitars at a wholesale price to people who are in the resale business. You must have a shop or a retail outlet to qualify for the wholesale price. – this is to keep it fair, know what I mean?
This wholesale offer is only good to shops in the EU since we can’t ship from the USA .- to keep the cost reasonable and, using merchandise already in the EU.
Cigar Boxes (the core of the Guitar) can vary since some of our boxes come from Cuban Cigars, while others are from Cigars allowed for sale in the USA.
All guitars would have the same quality and made all with the same care and dedication that we make our Guitars offered in our page and fairs where we do personal appearances. I can’t guarantee any specific brand of Cigar (for the box) but you can ask to find out what we have at the time of making your order.
In General all guitars will include:
3 String based scale (strings can be either 123 or 456 where as reference strings 1,2,3 will give you a higher tone and the 4,5,6 a more based one)
Solid Arm – 48 cm long from fret to fret.
Top quality Mechanical Keys.
All guitars are Electric with our custom made Amp Pick Up and ¼ inch female adaptor. Sorry, no acoustic guitars are available at wholesale prices.
Strap (nylon, professional Guitar strap with leather ends).
Please Notice that we have nothing against China, actually I love the culture and much more, but we stay away from China/Taiwan made products and we use mostly American or German made products to make our Guitars. BOXES excepted, those are from the Cigar Factory place of Origin. Depending on the cost of the cigar the look and finish of the box would vary – we have had some boxes where 25 Cigars cost over 300 euros and others where the Cigars are just over 5 Euros, but we do guarantee that all boxes are wood materials, never a cardboard box would be used to make our instruments.
We would also include in your first order FREE Shipping and promo materials (fliers, posters, promo videos, etc.) to help you sale your guitars faster (then you can order more).
We will include your store, shop, name, in our web site and send customers your way. If we get an order to be filled from your side of the woods then, you can fill it and make the sale yourself. In addition, it would help you to let people know where you would be and not just promote the Guitars, but your other products as well.
If you don’t have a web site, we would gladly make a page with your info and ten you can mail us your calendar and contact info IN OUR OWN page GiLa Music gilamusic.com
In all, let us know what we can do and we will send you cost and answer any questions you may have.

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