KITS: Guitar Kits, Amp Kits & More

Here's your chance to build a busker's dream - a cigar box guitar with a screaming built-in amplifier. Fully electric cigar box guitar - can be plugged into any guitar amp Internal 2.5 watt amp with separate volume and gain.  Powered by a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 or 3-string electric bass, tuned to G-D or G-D-G...

SPECIAL EDITION:  STAR SPANGLED 4-COLOR PRINT! This Americana Box Fiddle Kit makes it easy to build your own homemade 4/4 fiddle by removing all of the hardest parts: finding a properly sized box, finding the right parts and hardware, and...

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...

Building and playing homemade fiddles has been a part of the American musical tradition from the country’s earliest years, and even before. Drawing upon their ancestors’ European roots, settlers from the Appalachian mountains to the woods...