Cigar box guitars

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Taylor Green, 30, and Robert Bergland, 38 started making cigar box guitars in February of this year.

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Taylor Green, 30, and Robert Bergland, 38 started making cigar box guitars in February of this year.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Taylor Green, 30, and Robert Bergland, 38.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Taylor Green, 30, and Robert Bergland, 38.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Robert Bergland uses a template to cut a square in one of the cigar boxes to start a new guitar.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Robert Bergland and Taylor Green discuss how to add a metal support beam to the neck of a bigger cigar box guitar that they are planning to build

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Taylor Green measures out what will be the neck of a cigar box guitar.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Robert Bergland and Taylor Green do most of the work that involves power tools outside their workshop.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Robert Bergland adjusts the magnets that attach to the coils that allow the guitars to be electronic.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Robert Bergland marks a piece of wood to measure out what will eventually become the neck of a cigar box guitar.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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A finished cigar box guitar is displayed on the work table at their workshop.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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A majority of the guitars have 3 strings, this is one of their few 4 stringed cigar box guitars.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Almost all of the cigar box guitars have a plug that allows for the guitars to be hooked up to an amplifier and to be played as an electric guitar.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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A couple of halfway finished guitars lean on the side of a shed that they use sometimes to create their guitars.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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Semi-completed cigar box guitars lean on the side of the workshop.

Austin pair Bobby Bergland and Taylor Green join throwback movement with their handcrafted cigar box guitars

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