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Check out this beauty. This is my 8th build and by far the best one yet. It has a cherry neck, real frets, and a humbucker pickup. It looks and plays great. Huge thanks to Glenn (Watt) for helping with my questions.Here are the CBGitty Parts I used:Gold “Half Moon” Sealed Gear Tuners (31-075-01)Gold Snake Oil Humbucker Pre-Wired Pickup Harness with Volume Control (54-052-01)Gold Flat-Top Press-Fit Knobs (51-032-01)Gold Strap Buttons with Screws (31-011-01)Complete Fretting Starter Kit with T …

Dear Gitty, My name is Keith Hicks from New Orleans, LA. I built this guitar with a jatoba (Brazilian chery) neck, white ash fretboard and oak fret markers. The fretboard has a 12" radius, 25" scale and the bridge is walnut. I kept it all acoustic. These all wood boxes sound incredible. C.B. Gitty parts used: Bone nut Shane Speal signature tuners String ferrules Jescar low/medium nickel radiused fret wire Strap buttons Southbound Blues B …

CIGAR BOX GUITARS IN SCHOOLS - SUCCESS STORYCLASSROOM SIZE: 18 STUDENTS  /  STUDENT AGES 7-12For information on our education program, please see Cigar Box Guitars in Schools.Dear Gitty,In the beginning of June I did a week long day-camp at our school. The project for the week was building cigar box guitars.  We had 18 kids, from age 7 to 12, and they each made their own guitar. They loved it! I downloaded some great directions from your website, ordered a couple 12 packs of you …

Steve Larson built as a gift for a friend’s teenage son who will be having open heart surgery later this month.He is a baseball player – the # 19 on the fret board is his jersey #.His name is stamped onto an Army dog tag and used as a name plate to personalize the guitar. (He blurred his name in the picture for his privacy)Features• Arturo Fuente wood Cigar Box• 3 String Acoustic – light gauge strings.042W, .030W & .009W• Tuned To Open G "GDG"• Black Open-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads• 25 …

A couple of weeks ago, Ben Gitty got creative out in the shop and built himself a tambourine out of a wide, flat cigar box. He wrote up a builder's diary/how-to guide of how he did it, and now it is available in the knowledgebase over at CigarBoxGuitar.com!So if you have been looking for a new project to try, or have been wondering what to do with those wide, flat & thin cigar boxes that have been piling up, this one is for you. Add a little cigar box percussion to your line-up!Click he …