SHICKLEY -- Levoy Saltzman stands in his living room and strums a strange-looking guitar.

In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars.

Instead, buttons and a potentiometer on the front of the device are used to control four small hobby motors that slap their respective strings with what appears to be the remnants of plastic ...

A one-string cigar box guitar made by Jason Farthing with an electric pick-up. Farthing started making the guitars in 2007 and experiments with different designs and sounds.

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room.

Jeff Mello, the Cigar Box Guitar Store owner, showed News 19 a cigar box guitar that only had three strings and discussed the simplicity of the instrument.

When it comes to guitar strings, one of the common questions that crops up is, ‘What is the difference between coated and uncoated guitar strings?’. Coated strings cost more, but where does that money ...

He had first heard about cigar box guitars after hearing about a three-string banjo from his brother, which led to him discovering a small following of people making guitars out of cigar boxes.

SHICKLEY -- Levoy Saltzman stands in his living room and strums a strange-looking guitar.

Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. In the central Massachusetts ...

In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars.