Cigar Box Guitar Styles

The Lightning Boy Series are a quality series of cigar box guitars that utilise an electric guitar pickup. Using a magnetic pickup allows you to use overdrive and distortion effects without the hasstle of excess feedback or squealing. These CBGs are perfect for playing blues, rock or metal. These instruments are fully fretted.

The Rolling Thunder Series are fretless cigar box guitars that utilise an electric guitar pickup to provide crushingly powerful slide tones. Perfect for playing acoustic blues and high gain modern blues without unwanted feedback.

Our Stormrider Series are perfectly aimed at the acoustic, blues or rock player who wants to instil a little historic authenticity into their playing. These instruments use an acoustic contact pickup to replicate the acoustic qualities of the guitar. They are fretted and set up for fingerstyle playing or slide.

The Hurricane Series of CBGs are fretless instruments that are aimed at the player who wants to get primal with their playing and tone. These guitars use an acoustic contact pickup to replicate the properties of instrument. These guitars are perfect for playing old style Delta blues like Robert Johnson or Howling Wolf.

Our Stage Series CBGs are designed for the modern musician who wants a high level instrument that is designed for life on the road. These instruments use a handmade body made from solid timber sides and marine ply top and bottoms. They represent the future of the cigar box guitar. We build these instruments to order so you can choose from a great range of options. There is currently a 6 to 8 week build time on these guitars.

Birdwood Guitars does not endorse the smoking of cigars. We are dedicated to upholding a tradition of building roots instruments that utilised cigar boxes as the body of instruments. We may on occasion, also use tins or other found boxes to make our instruments.