Cigar box guitars originated in the United States in the late 1800s. In Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she writes, “On Saturdays, barbers sat their customers in the shade on the porch of the store, and troubadours on their ceaseless crawlings through the South leaned on its benches and sang their sad songs of The Brazos while they played juice harps and cigar box guitars.” This distinctive three-string guitar is crafted from a cigar box made by My Father Cigar Company of Nicaragua. Staying true to theme of South America, the fretboard is made of tigerwood from Central and South America.