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Want to install a Snake Oil mini humbucker and pickup ring in your cigar box guitar?It's easy! Just follow the step-by-step instructions below to mount our most popular pickup in your cigar box.Installation is EasyWhat follows is a step-by-step account of how to install a Snake Oil mini humbucker and pickup ring. The great thing is, you don’t need a shop full of tools to install one of these wildly popular pickups.As you can see below, the tools needed for installation are fe …

Shane Speal explains how to reinforce the internal neck-through cigar box guitar-design for installing thicker magnetic guitar pickups. To learn Shane's tricks on how to mount pickups in neck-through cigar box guitars watch the short video below. Scroll past the video to see the pictures that explain how Shane reinforces his neck-through designs. You also get a little bonus hack on how to add a sturdy mounting surface for hardtail bridges!Watch the Video See the Pics "L …

While a lot of cigar box guitar builder attention goes to disk piezos and standard acoustic guitar-style rod piezos, there is another option that can be a great addition to your toolbag: the violin-style rod piezo. These little pickups sound great in cigar box guitars, especially when put through one of our pre-amp units.While standard rod piezos have a lead that comes off of one end (shown to the right), the violin-style (shown above) has a central lead that sticks straight down from the m …

Three new how-to articles dealing with popular Cigar Box Guitar concepts have recently been posted in the How-to knowledgebase at CigarBoxGuitar.com. Two deal with popular 3-string tunings, and the third introduces the What, Why and How of the Zero Fret. Be sure to look them over if you are looking to expand your Cigar Box Guitar know-how!Tunings Articles: Open G "GDG" Tuning on your Cigar Box Guitar: 4 Methods, with String SizesOpen D “DAD” Cigar Box Guitar Tunings and String Sizes Article – w …