The Cigar Box Guitar Store

While there are many home-based cigar box guitar builders who sell their guitars online or in person as vendors at music festivals and outdoor markets, The Cigar Box Guitar Store is the only brick-and-mortar store specializing in cigar box guitars in the world! We offer a selection of about 30 cigar box guitars at any given time, as well as other cigar box instruments.

We make three and four string cigar box guitars, cigar box bass guitars, as well as cigar box amplifiers and tambourines. Guitars start at $175. Guitars are tuned to Open G making them easy for beginners to learn to play, while more advanced guitarists can play them in more complex ways. All guitars can be played acoustic or electric and feature unique designs making them playable art. Well-known guitarists that have played cigar box guitars include Bo Diddley, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Hendrix, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, Lynyrd Skynrd’s Ed King and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. 

Join us every Saturday for FREE cigar box guitar lessons. No sign-up required, just drop in anytime during Noon and 2:00 pm. Stay a few minutes or for the whole two hours. No experience is required! We always offer free loaner guitars and there's never any obligation to buy. Recommended for ages 11 and up.

The Cigar Box Guitar Store is located at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment, a historic textile mill built in 1901. Lowe Mill A&E houses over 150 studios and is the largest privately-owned artists' community in the United States with 198,000 square feet of space. 

Jeff & Tara Mello, owners of The Cigar Box Guitar Store, are also the producers of the longest-running cigar box guitar festival in the world. In 2025, the 21st Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival featured a dozen musical acts at three different venues in Huntsville over three days, raising $15,000 for music in North Alabama schools. Mark your calendar to attend the 22nd annual Cigar Box Guitar Music Festival May 29-31, 2026. More info at: CigarBoxGuitarFestival.com