Empty cigar boxes are like mini treasure chests waiting to be transformed into something new. Even if you only have one lying around the house, there is a lot of potential for what it could be. Cigar ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. It's ...

What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art probably is the latest one to become popular.

Last week, I was reminded of the old wood-workers’ idiom that says, “Measure twice, cut once.” I remembered the advice ...

Edward Cockerill's father was posted to India during World War 2. When he returned to Leicestershire he brought these wooden cigar and jewellery boxes. "My father went to war in about 1940 when I was ...

A rectangular wooden cigar box with hinged lid. Text reading "EL PRODUCTO / QUEENS" is carved into the front side and the top of the lid, then filled in with black ink. Above the text is a medallion ...

If you were to go back to the middle years of the twentieth century and talk to electronic constructors, you would find a significant number had a cigar box radio among their projects. Cigar boxes ...

Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...

Dean Moller is a blues guitar player and cigar-box guitar maker. The former professional woodworker was injured on a job site, ending his career in carpentry. He turned to making wooden bowls ...

Cigar boxes are no longer a part of childhood. In an office supply store last week I saw a display of plastic boxes for children for use in school, for storing pens and pencils and glue and scissors ...