Smokehouse Guitars

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Features

• Four String guitar, poplar neck, red oak fingerboard, Tung Oil finish
• Fingerboard radius of 16″
• All gold hardware (including frets)
• Archtop Jazz mini humbucker
• Volume/Tone control
• Gibson style top hat knobs
• Lacquer coated box
• Control cavity with access to pots

The Red Queen guitar is by far one of my most popular traditional four string guitars.  The loud red box is set off perfectly by the gold hardware and the simplicity of the design, right down to the plain oak bridge, belies a screaming bitch of a tone machine.

One of the coolest things about this guitar is its rarity.  Red Punch cigar boxes are very hard to come by.  I always try to snatch them up when I find them but even so, I usually go months without having one in my cigar box reserves.  At the time of this writing, only three of these guitars exist in the whole world.  Two are located in America and one of them (the first one I ever made) is in Japan.  Whenever I do manage to get a red Punch box, I use it only for this guitar as anything less would be a waste.

Owning a simple acoustic cigar box guitar does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality or playability.  Some people don’t want all the bells and whistles of an electric guitar.  That’s fine; I’m here for you.

I make some of the highest quality acoustic cigar box guitars available.  Each part of the guitar is designed with attention to the integrated instrument, each part being crafted specifically for playability and quality of sound.  The end result is a fluid work of art with unmatched tone and volume.

The key factor to the design of these guitars happens inside of the body.  Unlike most other cigar box guitars, the neck of this guitar never comes into contact with the lid (soundboard).  It is instead set into the body and cut at an angle to maximize internal cubic airspace.  The base of the box is strengthened with a solid oak spine, which is what the neck anchors to.  The underside of the soundboard is braced just like a traditional acoustic guitar and, when the box is sealed shut, the whole framework locks together to make an extremely sturdy resonator.

The other factor that goes into giving these guitars their incredible sound is that fact that I mount the bridge close to the center of the box.  This position, combined with the free floating soundboard, ensures that the maximum vibrational potential of the soundboard is realized.  All of this translates into an unbelievably powerful voice for such a small body.

On top of all that you can expect the exceptional features of a Smokehouse Guitar that are just a standard part of what I do:

• Fingerboard radius
• Fully dressed frets (no sharp edges, ANYWHERE)
• Some of the finest carving work that you can find in a three or four string neck