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New Lenox man makes guitars out of cigar boxes

Friday, December 24 2010

By SUSAN DEMAR LAFFERTY | Chicago Sun-TimesChuck 'Huntz' Meyer

Chuck Meyer never played guitar very seriously. And he never smoked cigars.

But that doesn’t keep Meyer, a mechanical engineer, from pursuing a most unusual hobby: Creating guitars (and mandolins) out of cigar boxes.

“It’s all about making music simply,” says Meyer, of New Lenox, who last picked up a guitar — a real guitar — when he was 17.

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