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Yes, that is a real cigar box! I was actually looking for a cigar box guitar (CBG) made by a different company which featured a drawing of a grizzly bear on the box. The bear CBG is no longer available, but when I found this one on Etsy, I knew that it was just right for me.
This one-of-a-kind instrument was built by hand by Charlie Rehfeld of the Tejas Cigar Box Guitar Company in San Antonio, Texas.
To see more cigar box guitars (and possibly purchase one of your own) visit:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TejasCbgCo
This one-of-a-kind instrument was built by hand by Charlie Rehfeld of the Tejas Cigar Box Guitar Company in San Antonio, Texas.
To see more cigar box guitars (and possibly purchase one of your own) visit:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TejasCbgCo
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 225.9 kB
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Only 4 strings, but not a bass. Cigar box guitars (or CBGs) are most often strung with either the middle 4 or the high 4 strings of an electric guitar set. They can be tuned to regular guitar tuning (ADGB or DGBE). But they are often tuned to open G (GDGB or DGBD) for playing with a slide. Players will sometimes say there is no wrong way to tune a CBG.
I'd say that it sounds as good as it looks. I think a lot of CBGs come equipped with single coil pickups which lend themselves to a country or folky sort of sound. In contrast, the humbucker makes this instrument mellower than you might expect and I like that a lot.
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