Soldier HandMade Instruments

Soldier HandMade Instruments I'm JD Richardson from Frankfort, Kansas and I make handmade cigar box guitars and other instruments.

Found this at the Goodwill store yesterday for 99 cents.
01/02/2026

Found this at the Goodwill store yesterday for 99 cents.

Got me a few new ones while on vacation in Deadwood South Dakota. Can't wait to turn them into something musical.
10/23/2025

Got me a few new ones while on vacation in Deadwood South Dakota. Can't wait to turn them into something musical.

This one is not for sale, I'm keeping it. Why, because this #100 ! Can't believe I have made 100 of these crazy things....
09/18/2025

This one is not for sale, I'm keeping it. Why, because this #100 ! Can't believe I have made 100 of these crazy things. But 40 of her friends will be for sale at the Paxico Blues Festival, Saturday.

These are 4 of 8 special edition diddly Bo's. These are specially painted by my beautiful artistic granddaughter Serenit...
09/18/2025

These are 4 of 8 special edition diddly Bo's. These are specially painted by my beautiful artistic granddaughter Serenity Richardson. These 4 will be for sale at the Paxico Blues Festival this Saturday. These are her guitars she gets the money off of these ones of kinds.

Got 8 more necks done . Hopefully these guitars will be ready for Saturday. Paxico Blues Festival here I come. See you t...
09/18/2025

Got 8 more necks done . Hopefully these guitars will be ready for Saturday. Paxico Blues Festival here I come. See you there.

Haven't posted in a while. Been working on guitars. This is the guitar I'm donating to the Paxico Blues Festival to raff...
08/21/2025

Haven't posted in a while. Been working on guitars. This is the guitar I'm donating to the Paxico Blues Festival to raffle off September 20 in Paxico Kansas. Ally Venable is headlining . I will also be set up selling some of my works of art. This is the only event I'm doing this year.

Rough cut 50 necks today. Walnut, white oak, spalted maple and poplar. Got to get to building guitars, got something b...
04/29/2025

Rough cut 50 necks today. Walnut, white oak, spalted maple and poplar. Got to get to building guitars, got something big coming up in September. Details a little later. Stay tuned.

Here's what is on the bench.
04/27/2025

Here's what is on the bench.

Here's another I resurrected from the dead. Made my own open G tuning for this sounds good. G,D,G,G,B,D
04/06/2025

Here's another I resurrected from the dead. Made my own open G tuning for this sounds good. G,D,G,G,B,D

Next one coming along 😁
04/06/2025

Next one coming along 😁

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