C. B. Gitty

Here's a great way to add a pickup to your cigar box guitar or other homemade instrument build! This harness has three piezo disks with adhesive backing, so you can position them around the underside...

This is a collection of parts intended for building homemade violins and fiddles. It includes the following items: Ebony tailpiece with fine-tuner mechanisms (Labeled photo Parts C & D) ...

This is a standard shoulder rest, designed to be fitted onto conventional violins and fiddles to help them be comfortably held under the chin and played. This rest is adjustable for height and grip,...

This is a set of parts designed to allow a standard 4/4 full-size violin to be electrified (so that it can be plugged into an amplifier). It includes a center-lead violin-style rod piezo pickup (part...

This is a set of quality violin strings, perfect for use on student violins and homemade fiddles. They are made from steel cores wound with aluminum-magnesium alloy, and are intended for full-size...

This is a solid cake of high-grade rosin for use with violin and fiddle bows. Also works great for viola, cello and bass viols. One of these will last for many years of violin/fiddle playing, when...

This is a full-size (4/4) horsehair violin bow, with an ebony frog and round profile. It is a solid bow that will serve well for homemade cigar box fiddles and students of conventional violin. Like...

Gitty himself has contracted spring fever and has been rustling around our inventory in a bit of spring cleaning. His decree: Offer the spoils of his cleaning whirlwind at feverishly low...

This sturdy tool is designed for reaming just the right taper into the peg heads of instruments that use wooden friction-style tuning pegs, such as fiddles, old-time banjos and more. The tapered...

These vinyl sheets are perfect for cutting your own pickguards, headstock veneers or other decorative elements for homemade instruments and more! Made from a blend of PVC and celluloid and available...

We are proud to offer this new design of easy-to-use hardtail bridges designed by Ben "Gitty" Baker specifically for cigar box guitars. These are single-piece, "fixed saddle" style bridges, which can...

It's hard to beat a traditional design when it sounds this darn good. Fully fretted to a 23-inch scale, this 3-string acoustic/electric cigar box guitar is strung "High G" GDG. It is considered...