Fun Stuff & Misc.

Ben Gitty writes: Get into the festive Christmas spirit with this beautiful collection of timeless Christmas hymns and songs. This 130-page spiral-bound songbook contains 31 of the best-known and beloved Christmas carols and songs, all arranged...

Ben Gitty writes: As you probably know, the Irish have a bit of a reputation for enjoying their drink... and for writing songs to celebrate it. This songbook contains my favorite traditional Irish drinking songs: songs specifically about booze and...

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...

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...

Ben Gitty writes: I grew up in small pentecostal churches, where my grandma Myra helped lead the singing. The great old hymns and spirituals I learned during those years have stayed with him all my life, and I am proud to now be able to present them in...

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,...

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...