Fun Stuff & Misc.

Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of of the thirty best-known and beloved Christmas carols and songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the...

Choose from four different options for these handy fretting scale length templates! Each template contains four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for different ranges of scale...

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...

These resonator cover plates are cut from .040-inch (around 19-gauge) thick aluminum and are designed and manufactured in the USA. We designed these covers to fit our 5.25-inch and 6-inch "Hubcap"...

These premium stainless steel slides, are perfect for standard guitar or cigar box guitar. They have nice thick walls and are available in three different lengths. Each slide has an inside diameter of

These are sets of two stainless steel pickup rings sized specifically for several of our most popular styles of pickup. These are cut from thin-gauge stainless steel sheet, and the result is a...

Here is a stylish single-piece trapeze tailpiece to add to your next 6-string cigar box guitar or other homemade instrument build. Building upon the success of our popular 3- and 4-string tailpieces,...

These are the perfect "cover-up" for neck-notching mistakes! This is a set of two neck collars for cigar box guitars, made to fit over 1x2 necks that have been extended at the heel (see photo), to...

Shane says:  "When Southbound Strings asked me to develop a set of professional electric guitar strings for cigar box guitar, I demanded three things:

Follow along with Nick Lanciano as he builds his own great-sounding cigar box fiddle using C. B. Gitty violin parts! A combination of a how-to guide and a builder's diary, this book gives you all of...

This poster features a reprint of the classic Edwin Forbes Civil War sketch of a Union soldier playing his "Figaros" cigar box fiddle while in winter camp. Forbes made this sketch while traveling...

This amazing piece of fine art was painted by Amzie Adams based on an old photo of a "spasm band" in New Orleans from the late 1800's. Showing a trio of young black musicians using homemade...