Gift Ideas

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...

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...

What's more efficient than having all of the tools you need for the job in one convenient place? This handy gadget combines three tools that are commonly used to re-string a guitar or other stringed instrument. Pin Puller: Designed to help pull the...

Fresh off of the R&D bench at C. B. Gitty HQ, we are proud to present this beautifully  decorated Made-in-the-USA cigar box resonator guitar, just in time for St. Patrick's day! This awesome-sounding cigar box resonator guitar features one of...

Build - Decorate - Plug in - Cut Loose!  Build your own tenor ukulele - easy enough to make right at your kitchen table!   Decorate:  The light birch wood body is perfect for painting, staining, woodburning or various other artistic...

Here's a great gift for guitar players, a handy pick case they can keep in their gig bags! This distinctive tin has a nickel/silver-colored plating and is printed with an original humorous "Shredder's Friend" design by Ben "Gitty" Baker. The tin measures...

Here's a great gift for guitar players, a handy pick case they can keep in their gig bags! This distinctive tin has a gold-colored plating and is printed with an original humorous "Bluesman's Friend" design by Ben "Gitty" Baker. The tin measures 4 inches...

These cigar box amplifiers are hand-crafted in the U.S.A. in C. B. Gitty's workshop. Their heart is an Artec SDA-T 2.5W amp board, which is powered by a 9V battery. The amp accepts either a standard 1/4" mono guitar cord as input or 3.5mm...

Fresh off of the R&D bench at C. B. Gitty HQ, we are proud to present this beautifully  decorated Made-in-the-USA cigar box resonator guitar, just in time for St. Patrick's day! This awesome-sounding cigar box resonator guitar features one of...

The retro-inspired guitar amp that pumps out 2.5 watts of power from your bookshelf!  Easy to build with only a novice level of soldering required.     All you need for assembly is a philips head screwdriver and a soldering iron and...

Just as A. E. Staley's baking powder worked wondrous transformations in bakers' recipes a century ago, so a hearty measure of artistry transformed an old packing crate into this beautiful heirloom guitar.  Wooden crates were once the mainstay of...

  There's nothing like a cluttered junk shop to set the handmade instrument builder's imagination to fizzing. For me recently, that inspiration came in the aisle of an antique/junk/hardware store in Farmington, New Hampshire. The battered old...