Cigar Box Guitar Kits

We created this cigar box guitar kit with one goal in mind - to make a kit that would allow anyone to build a real, playable cigar box guitar in about an hour at the kitchen table, with only the most basic tools (a screwdriver and small hammer). And we...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions.  Just add your own 1 x 2 x 34-inch hardwood plank for the neck.  Thousands of builders have used these kits to create their own...

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 have started with a diddley bow, too.   Originally...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions - you just supply a stick for the neck!  Just add your own 1 x 2 x 34-inch hardwood plank for the neck.  Thousands of builders...

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...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions.  Thousands of builders have used these kits to create their own distinctive instruments! Thank you to Chris from CMR Woodworks for...

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...

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...

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...

It was back in the 1890’s when a group of New Orleans street urchins cobbled together cigar box guitars, wine box basses, kazoos and other instruments to form the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band. Lead by “Stale Bread” Lacomb, this fierce act...

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...

  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...

So sit down by the fire, boys, and tell a tale or two... there's really not much else for an old hobo to do..." This kit contains everything you need to build your very own handmade Hobo Fiddle: an all-wood custom-printed cigar box, hardwood neck, fully...

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...