cigar box guitars wer very popular in the early 1900s. A poor mans guitar. A lot of the old time blues players made these as kids and some played them as adults. Wooden cigar boxes were the best choice for the bodies, hence the name. They could have 1 to usually no more than eight strings. Banjos and fiddles were also made this way. With the revival of CBGs, you can now get them with pickups. One guy has even used a tele neck to make a cigcaster for $700.00 U.S that he sells. Some of the CBG sound horrible and some sound unbelievably good. I have seen them with round bodies so yours might be one. I still may make my own. You can even wind your own pickups and do your own wiring for these. People have used cookie tins,gas cans and one guy used a harley gas tank as the body for a upright bass, cool. You can google for CBGs. There are only about 5 sites for them.
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