C. B. Gitty Publishing

In The Partscaster Cookbook, Shane Speal, the "King of the Cigar Box Guitar," shows you how to build wild electric guitars from junked guitars, new guitar kits, miscellaneous parts and unusual found...

Get all three of our popular Canjo Songbooks at a great savings! This bundle includes our "Complete Canjo Songbook" full of Folk, Americana, Traditional and Old-Timey songs, our Canjo Hymnal chock...

This poster features a reprint of the classic Edwin Forbes Civil War sketch of a Union soldier playing his "Figaros" cigar box fiddle while in winter camp. Forbes made this sketch while traveling...

A collection of 38 beloved, easy-to-play sea shanties and other seafaring songs from Ireland, Scotland, England, America and beyond, arranged in tablature for 3-string Open GDG cigar...

In this 159-page book, Ben "Gitty" Baker teaches his methods for installing frets on cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Over the past 10 years thousands of necks, fretboards and...

Ben Gitty writes: As you probably know, the Irish have a bit of a reputation for enjoying their drink... and for writing songs to celebrate it. This songbook contains my favorite traditional Irish...

This blueprint-style poster features 24 of the most popular chord forms for playing songs on a cigar box guitar (or other handmade instrument) tuned to Open G "GDg". Shane Speal designed this poster,...

This book contains all of the canjo-building how-to info that Ben "Gitty" Baker has gleaned over almost a decade of building these fun, easy-to-play instruments. Canjos are one of the easiest...

Here are the most popular and often-used ukulele chords, on one easy-to-read 12 x 18" poster! Designed by Ben "Gitty" Baker and printed in the U. S. A. by C. B. Gitty Publishing, these are great for...

Tack this piece of art to your wall and you'll never be left guessing on chords for your 3-string cigar box guitar again! This poster features 24 of the most popular chord forms for playing songs on...

This poster features a reprint of classic cigar box banjo (guitar) plans, which originally ran in the St. Joseph Herald newspaper in Michigan in 1886. These plans, which seem to be based on the...