Brian Saner Latest articles by Brian Saner How to Build a Cigar Box Guitar Amp By Brian Saner published 22 March 18 Lessons Cigar Box: How to Build a Beer Can Microphone By Brian Saner published 8 December 17 Studio & Recording Equipment Cigar Box: Build a Guitar Pickup in Under Five Minutes for Less Than $2 By Brian Saner published 4 September 15 Guitar Pickups Cigar Box: Slides —It's All About the Tone By Brian Saner published 19 June 14 Accessories Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 3 By Brian Saner published 9 May 14 Guitars Cigar Box: How to Build a Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 2 By Brian Saner published 30 April 14 Guitars Cigar Box: How to Build a Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25 By Brian Saner published 23 April 14 Guitars It Got Loud: Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival Recap and an Intro to Cigar Box Guitar Pickup Building By Brian Saner published 5 September 12 Guitar Pickups Need Some Inexpensive Percussion? Build a Cigar Box Guitar Stomp Box By Brian Saner published 21 August 12 Effects & Pedals Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 5 By Brian Saner published 4 June 12 Guitars Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 4 By Brian Saner published 16 May 12 Guitars Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors MORE FROM GUITARWORLD...1“I wanted to have the register like a violin. The luthier said to me, ‘I can build you any guitar you like.’ It was a lightbulb moment for me”: Uli John Roth on what you get when you cross a Strat and a Les Paul with a violin hybrid2“He’d already set everything up... The guitar was radically out of tune and the strings were virtually hanging off it”: Leo Abrahams on his Strat-wrestling initiation with Brian Eno, why he didn’t want to be famous, and what he learned from Paul Simon3“Greg had this ‘60s P-Bass with a nut that had been cut so many times that the strings were rattling around, and a pickup that couldn't really handle how hard I played”: Alex ‘V-Man’ Venturella on tone, technique – and how he nailed his Slipknot audition4“He could take a rock tune like Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman and transform it by adding a hint of salsa clave rhythm”: Remembering Peter Green and Carlos Santana’s supernatural jam at the 1998 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards5“This wasn’t a guy who got better every six months or every week; this was a guy who got better every 60 seconds”: Randy Rhoads became a legend with Ozzy Osbourne, but his incredible playing was evident long before then
Cigar Box: Build a Guitar Pickup in Under Five Minutes for Less Than $2 By Brian Saner published 4 September 15
Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 3 By Brian Saner published 9 May 14
Cigar Box: How to Build a Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 2 By Brian Saner published 30 April 14
It Got Loud: Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival Recap and an Intro to Cigar Box Guitar Pickup Building By Brian Saner published 5 September 12
Need Some Inexpensive Percussion? Build a Cigar Box Guitar Stomp Box By Brian Saner published 21 August 12
Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 5 By Brian Saner published 4 June 12
Cigar Box: How to Build a Smokin' Cigar Box Guitar for Around $25, Part 4 By Brian Saner published 16 May 12
