Cigar Box Guitar Pickup ~ Indian Cigars ~ Fits 3 or 4 string guitars

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Seller: red-dog-guitars ✉️ (1,459) 100%, Location: Sparks, Nevada, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 253095739553 Cigar Box Guitar Pickup ~ Indian Cigars ~ Fits 3 or 4 string guitars. This is an auction for one ~Indian Cigars~ pickup in mohagany color. ( one pickup only) These are some of my homemade guitar pickups, there is a video in this auction that explains them. 

Cigar Box Guitar Pickups For Sale ~ 3 and 4 String Americana ~ Old West Red Dog Guitars USA - YouTube

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[isdntekvideo] They are simple hand made and homemade guitar pickups made for cigar box guitar. If you are looking for a unique one of a kind pickup to give your cigar box guitar a rustic Americana look and feel, these will provide a great look, a great sound, and will offer a lifetime of happiness.
They are mid-range powered pickups. They are made to sound clear at lower volume levels but you can dial in the gain and overdrive them to give your guitar a full on electric raunchy bottleneck tone by just turning up the tone/gain setting on your guitar or amp. There is a lot of possibilities for creativity. The best part is they are super easy to install and don't need alot of space and you will not have to notch out your neck much to add them to your guitar. They will look much better than adding a cheap chrome pickup to the front of your guitar. Let me send you one, it will give your guitar a great an authentic look! 
The color is actually medium but on the darker side, ( I also make a lighter version that is medium but on the light side, check my other auctions)   I try to select the best looking wood patterns that will look great to the eye and are naturally rustic and beautiful. You can put it on any box with any color and it will give your guitar a truly vintage and authentic look. I stain them in the medium ranges so the color is well suited to math any type of cigar box. They fit both 3 and 4 string.   If you want to learn more about me or cigar box guitars visit my site  just Google the words Red Dog Guitars. Thanks for your interest, John They fit either 3 or 4 string guitar. If you want to learn more about me or cigar box guitars visit my site  just Google the words Red Dog Guitars. Thanks for your interest, John

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A brief history of the cigar box guitar
   
 What is a cigar box guitar? In the South it's common to hear stories that Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and all those other old-time Blues guys started playing guitar on a cigar box guitar. Not many people who  follow Blues and Country music know this, but many famous Blues and Country singers started  their career on a simple homemade cigar box guitar. One reason most Blues and Country  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." Lightin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, 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. Today's modern and Chinese made guitars can't even come close to the true primitive sound these handmade guitars make. 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. Here is a wonderful example of one being played today, it really does take you back in time.   Watch this video of Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top playing a homemade cigar box guitar.

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 an all cigar box guitar CD recorded mostly with 3 sting cigar box guitar, it's all cigar box guitar and 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 & 4 string cigar box guitars and also using vintage amps and Retro Radios turned into amplifiers.

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, John 
  • Condition: New
  • Brand: Old Timer Cigars
  • MPN: Homemade cigar box guitar pickup
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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