Cigar box guitar Edgar Poe Preacher Guitars

The cigar box guitar is dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe who was an American writer, poet and inspired by his poem The Raven. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. The box is 112 years old, scale — 666 mm, neck -- ash, fretboard— wenge, 22 frets, covered with linseed oil and beeswax, nut made from an elk horn. Tailpiece made from a real coffin handler, bridge -- two raven claws, Sperzel locking tuners. A glowing lettering “Nevermore“ on the fre