C. B. Gitty

Bring a bit of American history to your next build with these beautiful Made-in-the-USA hardwood bridges that feature classic silver U. S. coins! These bridges are cut from 1/8" thick genuine...

This is a laser-cut biscuit bridge designed specifically for use on the Charles Atchison 5.5-inch "Lightning" resonator cones that we sell. These are the acoustic version of the biscuit bridge...

These pickups could be straight out of an inventor's barn in the 1940's. If the cigar box guitar was originally meant to be electrified, these would have been the pickups to do it. Consider them...

Finally, a low-cost, professional solution to achieving nice, straight fret slots! This miter box kit was designed by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker specifically to make it easy to cut nice, straight slots...

This is a high-quality dovetail-style saw, perfect for cutting fret slots for standard fret wires that fit in a .023" slot. The blade has a .020" kerf and is 8" long with a steel reinforced ridge...

Notes bloom and ring out in our Cigar Box Ukulele kits.  Make a fully playable instrument with a vintage "throwback" look.  Everything is here, from the neck, fretboard...even the box!...

Build the mythical one-string guitar from blues and Americana folklore.   This is the instrument that Blind Willie Johnson first learned slide guitar.   Countless other music legends...

We are proud to offer these hardwood laser-cut cigar box guitar bridge blanks, designed and made in our own C. B. Gitty workshops. We offer four different styles/shapes in a variety of wood options -...

For years in the cigar box guitar movement, people in the know have been saying that it really wasn't feasible to have a passive tone control in a piezo circuit for cigar box guitars. It turns out,...

This is a package of 2 laser cut and engraved hardwood "Made in the USA" badges, perfect for mounting on your cigar box guitar, other homemade instrument or woodcraft project. These are cut from 1/8"...

These are hardwood blanks that can be used as nuts or saddles, perfect for cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Here are the dimensions: Length: 2" (50.8mm) Height: 3/8" (0.375...

This is package of 3 matched pairs (6 pieces total) of laser-cut hardwood F-hole cutouts, perfect for use as decorative embellishments on cigar box guitars and other instruments. Each one has two...