NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — There’s a rhythm in a Jessamine County workshop that comes from the steady sounds of saws and sanding. It’s happy work that will soon give way to the blues.

Anyone who saw the funny little square-shaped guitars at Mikel Doktor’s booth stand at the Music is Art festival might have thought Doktor had created some unique, alien-type of instrument.

From its humble beginnings to its recent resurgence the cigar box guitar has been proving to people over and over again that its not simply a novelty instrument for a select few folk and blues ...