Cigar boxes can be repurposed to make some really amazing things to use and display around your house. Here are 11 of our favorite ideas on reusing them.

In this video I show how to make a simple electric percussion instrument called a stomp box and how to install a piezoelectric transducer as an audio pickup. Thanks to my sponsor for this video, ...

And as elaborate as the modern cigar-box guitars, made out of fascination, not need, can get, for many makers those humble —and populist — beginnings are a key to the craft’s lure.

MARBLEHEAD — A new factory popped up on Rowland Street — one invoking a musical spirit with cigar boxes and restoring the soul of forgotten instruments entering their twilight years.