Old Timer 3 String Cigar Box Guitar - Homemade Old School Blues Box Guitar

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- Guitar amp NOT included with sale -
This guitar is the Old Timer and has vintage hand drawn art etched into the metal top pickup. This guitar is handmade and homemade and one of a kind.
The pickup and art is all original and hand drawn freehand ...Homemade and Handmade.
If you enjoy playing Delta Blues, this guitar is set up for both finger picking or slide guitar,  go from gritty blues to clear country and everything in between. This is an all handmade and homemade cigar box guitar. This guitar is the exact same as all my other guitars I make in wood, but this is I used a rustic satin royal blue antique theme. It's smooth to the touch but looks a 100 years old.
Guitar amp NOT included with sale!
All of my guitars sound and play the same as I make all my guitars the same way. The recipe I use to capture that old time Blues sound works for me so I do everything the same. I make the pickups the same,  the action and scale length, everything is the same in all my guitars.   Only the outside appearances and artwork look different,  but all my guitars are really the same inside and out.
I hope that this guitar speaks to you and you accept the time and effort I have put into it. You will cherish it for the remainder of your life, it will be next to your chair in the living room, it will be on the sofa or you'll play it in bed while watching TV everyday, it was made to be your most prized guitar! This is an everyday player, not just another guitar for your collection, you will play this guitar constantly.
I can say its easily the coolest guitar you'll ever own .....Goggle Red Dog guitars. You can read more about my art and the history of cigar box guitars.
SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD anywhere in the World same 88 bucks , same price anywhere and everywhere. Insured and tracking included. If you have a house I will get it there.
Cigar box guitars are a lost art and an unique American tradition. From Muddy Waters to Lightnin' Hopkin's, many of the early Blues musicians got their start by making and playing these homemade instruments.  Since the mid 1860's up to the early 1950's with Bo Diddly's Rock invasion, building your own homemade or cigar box guitar was quite common. Well before musical instrument mass production brought the cost down, people made their own guitar or stringed instrument out of different types of cigar boxes and scavenged or found wood.
Here below is a song played on a 3 string cigar box guitar.
Dust Bowl Blues
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If you would like to hear more music, check youtube, my website, or on your cellphone in places like on
iTunes, spotify, pandora or any streaming service, I have about 50 or 60 songs out. Here is a rustic vintage style recording.
- Old Western Blues -  Slide Guitar recording of a Homemade 3 String Guitar
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A brief history of the cigar box guitar
What is a cigar box guitar?
In small towns in the South, it's common to hear stories of those old school Bluesmen of the past such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Little Freddie King and many others who got their start in music by building their own cigar box guitar.
Not many people who follow Blues and Country music know this. One reason most Blues and early Americana music has such a distinctive sound is because it was derived off of music made on these simple instruments.
The precursor to the cigar box guitar as an instrument was the diddly-bow. It was a one stringed instrument where the player would take a glass bottle neck and run it up and down a string while plucking the opposite end of the string to achieve the tone they where after. Because those basic "guitars" did not have frets, that early form of crude guitar playing is what evolved into the form of slide guitar we are familiar with today. That is what is thought to be the creation of Delta Blues and slide guitar from the "Southern Delta."
From Muddy Waters to Elmore James, they were all influenced in some way by these early homemade instruments.  Many of them following along in their career as slide guitar players.  That's where the Blues and slide guitar truly started at. On those plantations and cotton fields, homemade guitars and 'field hollerin' went hand in hand. Blues players didn't play Gibsons or Martins, they couldn't afford them. If you grew up in poverty and wanted to play guitar, you had to build a guitar yourself.
Those humble beginnings of the cigar box guitar are what eventually gave this little known guitar a home in music history. This tradition of making and playing a homemade guitar continued from the 1880's and for many decades up until the 1950's, but this form of guitar construction never really went away. Many Blues musicians from the 60's, 70's and 80's kept this long forgotten art form alive.  Even though homemade guitars have faded into obscurity, some Blues and Rock musicians still enjoy playing them today.
Many of today's guitar players are looking for a truly "primitive and authentic sound" and the cigar box guitar naturally makes and records vintage style music. Cigar Box Guitars can be channeled into a creativity that many musicians desire for in their playing, giving them a more authentic sound. Blues guitarist, in particular, really enjoy playing cigar box guitars in the search of hearing "Delta Blues" in its purest form. Today you can still find guitar players who are looking for that raw and authentic sound from the past and they chose to play cigar box guitars.
Watch this video of Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top - it will take you back in time.
Billy Gibbons' of ZZ-Top playing Cigar Box Guitar ~ Ry Cooder's Billy The Kid - YouTube
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This sound recording of Ry Cooder's song "Billy The Kid" is performed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top and is an excerpt from a Mark Maron interview. I have presented it here for educational and commentary purposes only in relation to the brief discussion about of the history of the cigar box guitar as a long forgotten instrument in American history. (Copyright Law 107-Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use section; 40) All Copyrights for this material are the property of their respective owners.
If you want to learn more about cigar box guitars and the history about them. I have a website with lots of historic photos. Cigar Box guitars are my passion to build and play. I enjoy seeing other people play them and seeing the joy they create in peoples lives.
Goggle "Red Dog Guitars" to see more of my work.
If you are interested in the hobby of Cigar Box Guitars. I have 4 different disc available on the subject.
Here is the list,
1. Understanding 3 string Guitar - How To play lessons DVD
2. How To Build - 3 & 4 String Cigar Box Guitars DVD
3. Dust Bowl Blues - 3 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
4. Cigar Box Americana - 3 & 4 string Cigar Box Guitar Music CD
The 3 string
Lessons DVD is called "Understanding 3 string guitar." It covers all the playing styles heard in Blues guitar playing, both slide and finger style to help you get that Old-time vintage sound. Even if you've never played guitar before, it's never to late to learn how to play cigar box guitar, even if you are 70!
Slide guitar is basically just one finger guitar. You can learn to play theses guitars, It is not hard at all.
The How to Build DVD covers in-depth how to build 3 & 4 string cigar box guitars. These guitars are just as much fun to build as they are to play. Anyone can build a great guitar, even on you first time if you have correct instruction and explanation, you only need a few common hand tool that most people already have.
I also have 2 different Cigar Box Guitar music CD's,
The best way to learn how to play great cigar box guitar, is to listen to cigar box guitar
music.
One
is called "Dust Bowl Blues."
This is an all Delta Blues and cigar box guitar CD recorded with mostly 3 sting cigar box guitar Blues music.
The other music CD
is called "Cigar Box Americana."
This is old time Delta Blues and Southern Bottleneck cigar box guitar that has been recorded on both 3 and 4 string cigar box guitars and also using vintage amplifiers and recording gear.
All of the music and videos I have recorded are only on the topic of Cigar Box guitar, no regular guitars are used.
You can see the DVDs and Cigar Box Music CDs - Click Here
Email me if you have any questions