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C. B. Gitty
"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
- SKU:
- 31-213-01
- UPC:
- 602589225111
- MPN:
- 31-212-01
Description
The ultimate DIY instrument resonator cone!
More "dobro-esque" tones than cookie tins or standard paint can lids.
Easier to mount than traditional resonator cones.
Made from American paint can lids and hand-spun at Gitty Workshop in New Hampshire. Read the story behind these cones here.
Welcome to a new era in cigar box resonators! The "Hubcap" series from C. B. Gitty feature cones hand-spun from real repurposed paint can lids. These lids are made-in-the-USA from thin sheet metal; we take them and using a special lathe turning process convert them into these beautiful cigar box guitar parts. The three sizes can be used for different-sized cigar boxes and different instrument types, from single-string diddley bows on up to full-size three and four-string CBGs.
We offer these in three different sizes. Choose according to your cigar box guitar lid:
- Small (Quart-size Lid): ~3.75-inch outside diameter.
- Medium (Half-gallon-size Lid): 5.125-inch (130.175mm) outside diameter, 5-inch (127mm) mounting hole diameter recommended.
- Large (Gallon-size Lid): (158.75mm) outside diameter, 6.125-inch (155.575mm) mounting hole diameter recommended.
The overall depth of all three sizes is right around 1/2-inch. The height of the central pedestal (where the biscuit bridge sits) differs between the three sizes. On the Large size, the top of the center pedestal is about 1/4" below the highest part of the outer rim. On the Medium, the pedestal height is 1/8-inch to 3/16-inch below the rim. This variation is due to how the lids are stamped and then turned on the lathe.
Please note: these cones are formed one-at-a-time, by hand, on a spinning lathe. Each one will have slight variations and differences, which is what makes them unique.
COMPATIBLE ADD-ON PRODUCTS:
Add a mounting ring system to make it easy to use your cone (medium and large sizes only).
Add a stylish cover plate to give your reso cone even more decorative style (medium and large sizes only).
Customer Projects

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
A unique stick dulcimer project with a lute bowl body for greater sound chamber volume. The addition of the resonator cone gives it a very unique character. The bowl is constructed of walnut and maple in the traditional manner with glued paper tapes on the inside over each seam. This is a through neck instrument.

Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
A unique stick dulcimer project with a lute bowl body for greater sound chamber volume. The addition of the resonator cone gives it a very unique character. The bowl is constructed of walnut and maple in the traditional manner with glued paper tapes on the inside over each seam. This is a through neck instrument.

Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
I sourced a large cigar box from a vendor on eBay. The neck is made from a single piece of hard maple, with the headstock shaped similar to a Suhr guitar. The pickup is the dual rail humbucker from CB Gitty.

Green Bay, WI, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
I sourced a large cigar box from a vendor on eBay. The neck is made from a single piece of hard maple, with the headstock shaped similar to a Suhr guitar. The pickup is the dual rail humbucker from CB Gitty.

Green Bay, WI, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
I sourced a large cigar box from a vendor on eBay. The neck is made from a single piece of hard maple, with the headstock shaped similar to a Suhr guitar. The pickup is the dual rail humbucker from CB Gitty.

Green Bay, WI, USA
Instrument Build

8pc. Antique Brass Box Corners (Smooth Finish), "Poor Man's Guitar" Book Parts Pack: Chapter 2 - 3-string Cigar Box Guitar, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
My daughter has been trying to learn to play guitar on my Martin classical, but she was about to go to college, and I wasn't letting her take it with her! Instead, I built her an acoustic slide cigar box guitar, and let her choose all of the design elements. She chose a Romeo and Juliet box with a resonator, but we didn't want to damage the art, which she thought was beautiful. I saw a Shane Speal video about creating a spider bridge, and a lightbulb went off in my head. By carefully cutting out the bridge, I was able to salvage the beautiful scene. Next she chose heart shaped sound holes, and we bought brass box corners to cover the damaged paper there. I painted the hubcap howler paint lid and the sound holes gold to go with the gold/brass theme, and "voila!", I had the perfect college instrument for my daughter's college years.

Pennsylvania, USA
Instrument Build

8pc. Antique Brass Box Corners (Smooth Finish), "Poor Man's Guitar" Book Parts Pack: Chapter 2 - 3-string Cigar Box Guitar, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
My daughter has been trying to learn to play guitar on my Martin classical, but she was about to go to college, and I wasn't letting her take it with her! Instead, I built her an acoustic slide cigar box guitar, and let her choose all of the design elements. She chose a Romeo and Juliet box with a resonator, but we didn't want to damage the art, which she thought was beautiful. I saw a Shane Speal video about creating a spider bridge, and a lightbulb went off in my head. By carefully cutting out the bridge, I was able to salvage the beautiful scene. Next she chose heart shaped sound holes, and we bought brass box corners to cover the damaged paper there. I painted the hubcap howler paint lid and the sound holes gold to go with the gold/brass theme, and "voila!", I had the perfect college instrument for my daughter's college years.

Pennsylvania, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!, 6pc Gold Tombstone-style 3L/3R Sealed-Gear Tuners, "DeltaBucker Deluxe" 4-string Maple Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker Pickup pre-wired with Volume and Tone - No Solderin, Gold Adjustable Bridge for Electric Guitar
I am new to this, and looking in a cigar store, I thought these boxes looked great. I glued and screwed 2 together to create the body and went from there. This is my 5th guitar made and it went to my oldest daughter. Each daughter and grandchild and my sister and brother in law will get a guitar made by me.

Jacksonville, FL 32218, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!, 6pc Gold Tombstone-style 3L/3R Sealed-Gear Tuners, "DeltaBucker Deluxe" 4-string Maple Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker Pickup pre-wired with Volume and Tone - No Solderin, Gold Adjustable Bridge for Electric Guitar
I am new to this, and looking in a cigar store, I thought these boxes looked great. I glued and screwed 2 together to create the body and went from there. This is my 5th guitar made and it went to my oldest daughter. Each daughter and grandchild and my sister and brother in law will get a guitar made by me.

Jacksonville, FL 32218, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
been playing around with my laser cutter.

Freeport, Florida, USA
Instrument Build, Other

Gold Sealed-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine heads - 6pc. 3 left/3 right
First 2 builds

Cape Girardeau, MO 63701, USA
Instrument Build
Fretting Miter Box Kit for Guitar Necks & Fretboards up to 2.5" wide
I build for my own enjoyment, do not play (yet) who knows what tomorrow will bring, KiKi 3 crows.

Instrument Build
Fretting Miter Box Kit for Guitar Necks & Fretboards up to 2.5" wide
I build for my own enjoyment, do not play (yet) who knows what tomorrow will bring, KiKi 3 crows.

Instrument Build
Parlor-style Chrome Open-gear Tuners - Dual-hole Shafts - 6-in-a-line Right
Had a lot of fun building it, Still do not know how to play tho

Instrument Build
Parlor-style Chrome Open-gear Tuners - Dual-hole Shafts - 6-in-a-line Right
Had a lot of fun building it, Still do not know how to play tho

Instrument Build

"WickedBucker" Flat Hand-Wound Surface-Mount Pickups for 3 or 4-string - Choose Cover Style!, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Built for a friend. The Wickedbucker is paired with a piezo pickup on the resonator and mixed with a blend knob. Cool vibe

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Instrument Build

"WickedBucker" Flat Hand-Wound Surface-Mount Pickups for 3 or 4-string - Choose Cover Style!, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Built for a friend. The Wickedbucker is paired with a piezo pickup on the resonator and mixed with a blend knob. Cool vibe

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Instrument Build

"WickedBucker" Flat Hand-Wound Surface-Mount Pickups for 3 or 4-string - Choose Cover Style!, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Built for a friend. The Wickedbucker is paired with a piezo pickup on the resonator and mixed with a blend knob. Cool vibe

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Instrument Build

"WickedBucker" Flat Hand-Wound Surface-Mount Pickups for 3 or 4-string - Choose Cover Style!, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Built for a friend. The Wickedbucker is paired with a piezo pickup on the resonator and mixed with a blend knob. Cool vibe

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Instrument Build

"WickedBucker" Flat Hand-Wound Surface-Mount Pickups for 3 or 4-string - Choose Cover Style!, "The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Built for a friend. The Wickedbucker is paired with a piezo pickup on the resonator and mixed with a blend knob. Cool vibe

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Many of the instruments I make are created using found materials that often otherwise would end up in junk yards or scrap heaps. I began creating these for a multitude of reasons, that I'm sure you as a company understand very well. There are, of course both the ecological and economical reasoning behind creating art and music out of trash. But the most important driving force for me here is the old to the junk band musicians long past who did this out of simple necessity. This particular project has been a long time coming. I carved the neck out of an old weathered fence post found on an 1850s farmstead in Ohio almost a decade ago. It has since lived in my shop as I tried to find a forever home for it. As luck would have it, I finally found this old USMC Jerry can, and the wheels started turning again. It was a pretty perfect fit, proportionally and aesthetically. I just had to clean out 50 years of sludgy diesel fuel. Probably the hardest part of the entire project. The tuners and resonator of course came from your wonderful stocks. The aesthetic bits are mostly commercial, construction, and automotive scrap bits laying around my shop, a bit of sash chain, scrap vent cover, vehicle light, air pressure gauge, etc. I got to the end of the build and found I couldn't in good conscience have lights on a piece without actually lighting up, so I installed some low voltage rechargeable led lighting and hid the controls and charge cable inside of the C.B. Gitty bluesmans friend tin

Fort Collins, CO, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Many of the instruments I make are created using found materials that often otherwise would end up in junk yards or scrap heaps. I began creating these for a multitude of reasons, that I'm sure you as a company understand very well. There are, of course both the ecological and economical reasoning behind creating art and music out of trash. But the most important driving force for me here is the old to the junk band musicians long past who did this out of simple necessity. This particular project has been a long time coming. I carved the neck out of an old weathered fence post found on an 1850s farmstead in Ohio almost a decade ago. It has since lived in my shop as I tried to find a forever home for it. As luck would have it, I finally found this old USMC Jerry can, and the wheels started turning again. It was a pretty perfect fit, proportionally and aesthetically. I just had to clean out 50 years of sludgy diesel fuel. Probably the hardest part of the entire project. The tuners and resonator of course came from your wonderful stocks. The aesthetic bits are mostly commercial, construction, and automotive scrap bits laying around my shop, a bit of sash chain, scrap vent cover, vehicle light, air pressure gauge, etc. I got to the end of the build and found I couldn't in good conscience have lights on a piece without actually lighting up, so I installed some low voltage rechargeable led lighting and hid the controls and charge cable inside of the C.B. Gitty bluesmans friend tin

Fort Collins, CO, USA
Instrument Build

"The Hubcap" Spun Cigar Box Guitar Resonator Cones - choose from 3 sizes!
Many of the instruments I make are created using found materials that often otherwise would end up in junk yards or scrap heaps. I began creating these for a multitude of reasons, that I'm sure you as a company understand very well. There are, of course both the ecological and economical reasoning behind creating art and music out of trash. But the most important driving force for me here is the old to the junk band musicians long past who did this out of simple necessity. This particular project has been a long time coming. I carved the neck out of an old weathered fence post found on an 1850s farmstead in Ohio almost a decade ago. It has since lived in my shop as I tried to find a forever home for it. As luck would have it, I finally found this old USMC Jerry can, and the wheels started turning again. It was a pretty perfect fit, proportionally and aesthetically. I just had to clean out 50 years of sludgy diesel fuel. Probably the hardest part of the entire project. The tuners and resonator of course came from your wonderful stocks. The aesthetic bits are mostly commercial, construction, and automotive scrap bits laying around my shop, a bit of sash chain, scrap vent cover, vehicle light, air pressure gauge, etc. I got to the end of the build and found I couldn't in good conscience have lights on a piece without actually lighting up, so I installed some low voltage rechargeable led lighting and hid the controls and charge cable inside of the C.B. Gitty bluesmans friend tin

Fort Collins, CO, USA
Instrument Build
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