KITS: Guitar Kits, Amp Kits & More

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...

We've always been fans of the cowboy guitars with painted graphics that were sold in the 1930's-1950's.  Our Rodeo King pays homage to those instruments, while delivering a rough-and-tumble look of modern ranch life.  This guitar would look...

Custom-printed guitar kits inspired by old American barns painted with chewing tobacco billboards.  This is our first kit series designed by Shane Speal!  Easy to assemble and ready to be stained (neck), painted, woodburned, decorated and...

Our blues-iest kit yet!  Four (or 3) strings in Open G tuning with a classic Lipstick Tube Pickup!   Easy to assemble and ready to be stained, painted, woodburned, decorated and customized. The top panel can even be flipped around to...

Building your own homemade electric bass just got a LOT easier, thanks to the "G-Bass" kit from C. B. Gitty! This kit includes all of the parts you need to build your own short-scale (30-inch) 2-string electric bass, tuned to G-D. This tuning and setup...

Hear the full power of our banjo kit in this new demo video:  New Orleans jazz musician, Brett Gardner performs "Up a Lazy River" with The Cigar Box Serenaders using the Country Roads Banjo Kit as both lead and rhythm.     Build your...

Build your own resonator guitar for $ hundreds less than any dobro on the market.  The Hubcap Howler isn't just a fun kit... it's a serious deep-blues guitar. Assembly time: just 3-4 hours, not including glue drying time Traditional cigar...

Designed with front (or back) porch picking in mind, this kit has an full, rich resonator sound and is great for playing all sorts of music, including Blues, Folk and Country. The "Reso-Plate" kit is easy to assemble, with a real license plate for the...

  Designed with front (or back) porch picking in mind, this kit is perfect for playing good old down-home mountain music. Whether around the campfire, at church, or a pickin' and grinnin' jam session, the Mountain Tenor is the kit for you...

Build what you Play, Play what you Love!  Great for new and experienced builders, this kit comes with everything necessary to build your very own 3-String Fretted Cigar Box Guitar. Fretted neck, hardware, cigar box, complete instructions - it's...

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...

Build - Decorate - Plug in - Cut Loose!  Build your own tenor ukulele - easy enough to make right at your kitchen table!   Decorate:  The light birch wood body is perfect for painting, staining, woodburning or various other artistic...