A C. B. Gitty original, designed specifically for cigar box guitar builders! The miter box created from this kit allows you to cut perfect fret slots in your cigar box guitar necks and fretboards. Only a screwdriver is needed for assembly (no glue...

Get that workshop grime off of your hands the right way with a bar of Gitty's hand-made Workshop Soap! This is a 5-ounce bar of handcrafted artisan soap featuring a special blend of essential oils and natural ingredients to help you scrub your hands...

Get your mojo workin', your muddy water rollin and your juke shack a-rockin' with these awesome hand-made slides... you can even get the set of all six and save! These solid brass guitar slides are hand-crafted in the USA by Ron Hall, a master...

A unique set sound hole pieces, one coin slot and the other, a picture frame.  Each is cut from 1/8-inch solid mahogany panels. In his book "Making Poor Man's Guitars", Shane Speal shows using these two together on a cigar box guitar to create...

The Shane Speal Preamp Bundle drives piezo pickups for better clarity, tone and volume while enabling you to “sculpt” tones on cigar box guitars. Shane has been building and playing cigar box guitars for over 25 years and has figured out what...

These string sets have been formulated by Shane Speal, King of the Cigar Box Guitar, based on his 25 years of experience of what works for cigar box guitars on stage. Choose either the acoustic or electric set: acoustic for pure acoustic playing and also...

"This all started with the worst gig of my life... and the birth of my quest for a perfect foot drum instrument. [...] The concept of the Foot Stomper is so simple, I feel like a criminal for withholding the secrets of its construction all these...

"Adding regular metal to the soundboard (box lid) simply adds a trashiness to the tone. Mind you, trashiness is awesome and more trashiness is divine. Paint [can] lid guitars are for us trash addicts!"  -Shane Speal describing his love of paint can...

"The sound is otherworldly, like stepping inside the grooves of an old Victrola record."   -Shane Speal describing his cigar box guitar, Making Poor Man's Guitars, page 11.   We've taken all the parts described in Chapter 2 of...

The "Tin Pan Alley" 3-String Paint Can Resonator Guitar sounds like the Deep South, circa 1928.  It delivers the iconic classic metallic, Delta Blues tone in an easy-to-assemble guitar kit. Play it fretted or use a slide - the secret to the...

This deluxe kit includes everything you need to build am amazing-sounding heirloom quality 3-string electric cigar box guitar, including detailed instructions written by the man himself, Glenn Watt!Glenn has taken our popular Hot Rod Parts kit and...

This is a one-string acoustic canjo, offered under the American Canjo Company(tm) brand by C. B. Gitty. These instruments are hand-made in the C. B. Gitty workshops in New Hampshire, USA. They are fun and easy to play, well-made and look great - all at a...