Explore Our Guitars
Thank you for visiting Birdwood Guitars. We are builders of traditional and new-age cigar box guitars.
We also offer a great range of accessories including KILLER STRINGS and a variety of slides.
All guitars are handmade in hazelbrook, NSW,Australia.
We ship all around the world.
Cigar Box Guitars
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Solid Body Guitars
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Guitar Strings
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Cigar Box Guitars ✳︎ Solid Body Guitars ✳︎ Guitar Strings ✳︎
The ‘Juke Joint Rocker’ is our best selling CBG style ever! It’s super tough design allows it to be taken on stage and survive all the knocks and bumps that life on the road can dish out. It utilises an electric guitar pickup to provide killer tones at high volume and with loads of distortion as well.
All Birdwood Guitars are set up to provide beautiful playability and excellent intonation from the nut all the way up the neck to the bridge saddle. I am a luthier who has been working on and building electric guitars for the last 14 years. My mission is to provide you with the an instrument that you won’t want to put down.
Your Guitar
Handmade heavy duty body
rustic styling
oak neck
rosewood fretboard
powerful CBG humbucker pickup
Fixed hardtail bridge
volume
tone
Box corners
strap buttons
large sound hole for acoustic projection
Set up with USA made KILLER STRINGS tuned GDG
Every Juke Joint Rocker is a one of a kind creation and as such there may be slight differences between each guitar built depending on hardware availability and timber used.
These guitars are made to order. There is an approximate 6 week build time. Just like any quality instrument, these take time to build. Different things can impact build time, demand, the weather and attention to detail. However, you WILL receive an instrument that you will love. That is my promise!
Covered by our limited, lifetime Fair-wear guarantee.
This is just a small selection of the instruments we have to offer. We offer a great range of instruments tailored to budget and to playing needs. Fretless and fretted instruments can all be played comfortably with a slide.
Our LIGHTNING BOY SERIES cigar box guitars are built using genuine cigar boxes and a range of reclaimed and repurposed Timbers. We have chosen a beautiful, hand made, Gittybucker, handmade pickup made in the USA. Add jumbo frets and you’ve got a great blues and rock n roll machine.
Your guitar
Genuine Punch cigar box
Reclaimed timber neck
Huon pine fretboard.
Jumbo frets
Handmade ‘Gittybucker’ pickup (USA)
Volume
Traditional bridge
Closed machine heads
Quality hardware.
Strap button at rear.
Handmade by Adam Harrison in Hazelbrook NSW.
Our range of amazing ROLLING THUNDER CBGs just gets better and better with this awesome 3 string Punch offering. A powerful black humbucking pickup delivers a strong performance while the single volume control handles the output level. It’s a fantastic guitar for anything from old time blues to Zakk Wilde style, slide heavy metal shenanigans!
Rick out and this CBg will deliver a ‘Punch’!!
Your guitar
• genuine punch cigar box
• oak neck
• black hardware
• steel bridge
• humbucker pickup
• closed ‘Tombstone’ tuners
• screw fret markers at the 3,5,7,9,12,15,17,19 fret positions.
Lifetime (limited) fairwear guarantee
You will need a slide to play this guitar.
This Kristoff cigar box is made in the Dominican Republic and is VERY RARE. It’s the only box of this type that I have seen in 13 years of building cigar box guitars.
I’ve matched it with reclaimed timber for the neck and the fretboard. The neck has a beautiful grain quite reminiscent of Oregon and the fretboard was reclaimed from an 80 year old wardrobe.
The guitar has a pickup and volume control installed for amplifying the acoustic qualities of the instrument. It’s perfect for playing blues, country and 70s rock:) This is not a guitar for playing heavy metal.
YOUR GUITAR
• Genuine Kristoff cigar box
• reclaimed timber neck
• reclaimed fretboard with medium frets
• piezo pickup
• volume
• vintage style tuners
• box corners
• handmade at Birdwood Guitars Hazelbrook.
READY TO SHIP
Birdwood Guitars is the official Australian distributor for Steve Arvey’s KILLER STRINGS. Buy your strings here.
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