the first phase of the CIGAR BOX GUITAR build.

What to do first. Right, well, I could write that the very first thing is to decide what you want to do but that would be a "no brainer." And as I am doing this as a stream of conciousness, please let me know whenever I misspell a word or whatever, I am trying to type with the speed and graciousness of a cheetah. Alas, I am neither fast nor focused much of the time. In spite of this, I continue.

The cigar box guitar was created early in America by persons living in persistent poverty who, whether musicians or not, wanted to create music. When you do not have the resources to purchase the materials you need or want, you find yourself improvising with what is available. That is how this began:

The cigar box guitar.