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Shane Speal show an ultra-simple "hack" to turn our White Pearl Strat Style Loaded Pickguard ($31.99) into a pre-wired cigar box guitar harness.  Even the empty pickguard is used as a template. Also featured in the video is our Lipstick Tube pickup ($15.99). …

Shane Speal stopped by this week and sat down with Ben Gitty for a little pickin' & a-grinnin'.  In this impromptu broadcast, they cover a diverse set of cigar box guitar topics like: Diddley bows Two finger octave runs on a 3-string guitar Two finger movable chords on 3-string Approaching cover tunes and more. …

This is what happens when Shane messes around at work! He stumbles across a Lionel Richie classic. LOL!!! Tune your 4-string cigar box guitar to Open G (G-D-G-B) and play along to Easy Like Sunday Morning. Make sure to sing the "AHH AHH AHHs," too! …

Recently C. B. Gitty customer Jack Bowers shared one of his building techniques with us, a great way to add some extra stability to a neck without having to do more bracing inside the box. His method is simple - add an extension onto the bottom of the heel, out over the back/bottom of the cigar box.Jack has built over 700 homemade instruments, so when he shares a tried-and-true building tip, we take notice! See the photos below to get an idea of how he does it.Here's what Jack wrote us about thi …

Today I am working on the 700th instrument I've built in the last fifteen years. This is a mark I imposed on myself, that I felt I would never achieve. Like a goal in the distance I had to move toward it.Number 700 is a 2x4 Douglas fir stud that was a part of a wood shed being torn down. It was tight grained, very dry and begging to be refashioned from fire wood to something more musical. It has a Sitka spruce top and door skin on the back and even before the finish and hardware is on it I an he …