The back of this guitar is of rosewood and yew, and the rosette is beech (pictured right).
You are a very eclectic builder… K.A. - Well, I don’t play classical music – I prefer blues – and so I’m interested in these other guitars, too. I would say that classical guitar building is my business and the others are more like a hobby. Why do you build these cigar box guitars? K. A. – I don’t know, I just love them! They’re something completely different. If you plug them in and add some distortion you can get a nice bluesy sound. I build different models: threestring fretted or fretless. I have also built a fourstring dulcimer. Here, I have an electric cigar box guitar with a Telecaster maple neck, Goto tuners, Bareknuckle pickups and a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. It’s like a custom shop Fender guitar but in a cigar box format and it sounds fantastic! These guitars don’t have a huge following here in England but in America they are very popular. Originally, people who had no money would make them. Lots of American blues players started out with these instruments when they were kids. These simple instruments make music, and that’s the important thing.