About
My Name is Rick Redington. I am a Guitar-A-Holic! There..I’ve said it!! I feel better already. I have a collection of amazing instruments that have come to me over the years. Each one with its own song and story. It’s an obsession and passion that started as a young man hanging around a music store in Castleton Vermont that was run by a kindly Old Gentlemen named Cecil. I hung out in that shop through High School, College and early adulthood. I learned things about instruments, music and life that would carry with me very strongly even all these years later. I dedicated my first solo album to Cecil and it was called “Old Friend”.
I have since recorded several more and toured throughout the country and recorded and performed with great legends like Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Richie Havens..to name a few favorites. My first real electric Axe was a 1979 “The Paul” which was bought through Cecils store as a gift from my whole family for High School Graduation! I still have it…only NOW…it has a signature by another kindly old gent i met and sat with at a table in New York City…His name was Les Paul! What a complete honor and also tribute to my Old Friend Cecil that Les Paul himself would sign that 1st real axe i got through him! That’s just ONE of about 1000 great stories i have about instruments and also one of the 1000 reasons i have so many 
About a year or so ago my Son Ben and I decided to try and build a cigar box guitar. Lets face it..times are TIGHT and Dad just cant AFFORD to BUY anymore! So we did. For an entire evening i sat with my hacksaw blade with duct ends for handles, a wooden dowel from the mud room and a threaded bolt. This combined with a long 36″ board and of coarse the cigar box that had been laying around for years. This would become our masterpiece! It DID! We were so blown away with the low down growly bluesy tone that was coming out of our 4 string instrument that i decided to take it into the studio for a track i was producing for a friend. It sounded large and in charge and people still ask what is that? We built it by eye and ear and in the end it ended up being a 4 stringed Baritone scale instrument. We dubbed this version the “Vermont Mojo Box” and the same has stuck with it since. I enjoyed making it so much and have had so many inquirys for purchase that we decided to open up shop and sell em to the world! I instantly sought the help of a very talented Engineer friend named Bubba and he and his Assistant Scott..a.k.a. Little Bubba Jr..or L.B.J.
On my first frantic trip out to Ithaca to build with them we turned out about a half a dozen prototypes in 48 hours! See…i am quite OBSESSIVE and we HAD to get em done! I made that run so that i could take them out and play them with my own..sometimes LESS THAN delicate style! We learned right away what worked and what didnt and i sought the council of another good friend and talented Luthier named Jake Wildwood here in Vt. Jake gave us a few great pointers and i went on back out to Ithaca to run these designs by Bubba and L.B.J. We are now quite on TRACK and producing some fine sounding and playing stuff. Our line starts with the 4 strings lap steel baritone set up to be played like a slide guitar. frets and many options are available. We also are producing “Stompboards” which are percussion devices made from cigar boxes as well. We have experimented with and are building just about any stringed instrument imaginable from these wonderful boxes so please keep checking back with us!