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Seven years ago, I started this small guitar parts business cutting & selling fret wire from my grandfather's workbench in my basement. That little workshop area is bustling again with handmade boutique soaps made by my wife, Dawn (a.k.a. Mama Gitty).Dawn approaches soap making with the same artistry of visionary instrument creator, mixing and matching scents, colors and unexpected ingredients into slabs of pure awesomeness. Just last week, she launched www.CraftoftheRaven.com, her official onl …

We're serving up another great sonic buffet, this time with 'master chef,' Steve Larson of Hope Mills, NC.  Here's his details on this incredible electric 3-string cigar box guitar:Build # 17 – this is a 3 String Electric CBG.• Flor de las Antillas wood Cigar Box• GDG tuning• Black Tombstone-style Sealed-Gear Guitar Tuners/Machine Heads• 25.0" scale with 21 medium/medium frets• Jumbo Nickel-Silver fret wire zero fret for nut• Black enclosed 4-pole single coil pickup• 1/4-inch Mono Guitar Ou …

The cigar box guitar above was built by Randy Lee Thomas of Cockey Creek Cigar Box Guitars.  Here's what he had to say about it: I've built a few CBG's and this latest one turned out very nicely. Great service and parts from C.B. Gitty made it all possible to turn this one around in less than 2 weeks from parts order to awesome birthday gift for a friend.Parts used were as follows...Oak Neck Pre-Cut for frettingShane Speal Tuners for 4 string"Snake Oil" Pre -wired HumbuckerBourns Linear an …

We just got this great submission for Cooking with Gitty from Harry Bodmer.  We can only imagine how awesome this axe sounds. Here's his ingredients:I made this 4 string tenor guitar using a 1904 World's Fair Jack Daniels replica tin. I used the following parts from C. B. Gitty:pearloid open geared chrome tuners 500k pots20mm piezostandard 1/4" jack2 Stratocaster type knobs …

We're starting a new series of posts called "Cooking with Gitty."  Each one will feature your instruments along with the Gitty ingredients you used to create them.  Submit pics of your instrument + a list of parts used to gittyfans@cbgitty.comTonight's main course is served up by "Bullethead."  We present to you...The Las Cabrillas 3-string.This instrument is a 3 string cigar box guitar, 25.5 " scale tuned GDGGitty parts:3 string chrome saddle/bridge Chrome mini humbucker 500k vol …