Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

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Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams, ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — For his pay-the-mortgage job, Kurt Schoen flies cargo for UPS. For his live-the-dream work, the Walla Walla man drives to a somewhat-secret location to play a different sort of ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

For the past few years, Anthony Walker has been elbows deep in sawdust, perfecting his latest consuming passion. In his workshop outside Columbia in Blythewood, the luthier — or guitar maker — who ...