Fun Stuff & Misc.

A collection of 38 beloved, easy-to-play sea shanties and other seafaring songs from Ireland, Scotland, England, America and beyond, arranged in tablature for 3-string Open GDG cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Each song...

Ben Gitty writes: Irish music, and the people who play and sing it, have become a very special part of my life since I settled in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire. This book contains my favorite songs, all of them ones you would be very likely to...

A collection of 38 beloved, easy-to-play classic Scottish songs arranged in tablature for 3-string Open GDGB cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Each song includes multiple tablature arrangements in different styles and keys,...

This 18% nickel-silver fret wire is both beautiful and durable, a perfect finishing touch for your special build or re-fretting job! With its wider crown width and higher crown height than standard "medium" fret wire, you can be sure you'll be able to...

These are the perfect "cover-up" for neck-notching mistakes! This is a set of two neck collars with antique copper finish metal neck braces for cigar box guitars. The covers are laser cut from 1/8" (3.18mm) Genuine Mahogany and are made to fit...

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...

Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of over 115 beloved, well-known songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the numbers above the words in the easy-to-play canjo tablature format. This 60-page song...

This book contains all of the canjo-building how-to info that Ben "Gitty" Baker has gleaned over almost a decade of building these fun, easy-to-play instruments. Canjos are one of the easiest homemade instruments to build, and now you have all of the...

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...

Shane Speal's hyper-speed short slide, perfect for electric cigar box guitars.  Fully adjustable, enabling you to fit it to your slide fingertip for fast leads. There are many household items that can be used as a slide for your Cigar Box Guitar...

The all-new glass version Shane Speal's favorite slide. At just 1.75" long, a diameter of .75" (Men's ring size 9.25) and a wall thicker than a normal Coricidin bottle, this is the best stubby glass slide for electric cigar box guitar playing...

These little medicine bottles play BLAZING FAST LEADS on cigar box guitar.  They fit perfectly on the end of your slide finger and are short enough to weave in between strings.   Each slide comes with a strip of self-adhesive felt so you can...