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Give your next project a vintage curly maple or tiger stipe woodgrain look with this simple burn-and-stain technique.We sent Shane Speal our new Hubcap Howler Resonator Guitar Kit and he came back with another exciting new finishing technique that made the white birch wood look like a deep, antique curly maple!  Speal's original intent was to copy the look of an old Stella acoustic guitar in his collection, but the end result was something much better.  You'll need the following: …

Inspired by a customer's photograph, C. B. Gitty owner, Ben Baker takes a moment to concentrate on why we make these instruments, kits and parts.  Sometimes, you see a snapshot of a time and place, a little slice of life, and immediately realize: "I want to be there. That is my place." For some, that feeling is brought on by photos of landmarks and monuments, or scenic mountain vistas, or images of seas vast and blue and wide.And while those scenes appeal to me as well, there is just s …

When we developed the Hubcap Howler, word started getting around the Gitty workshop that this was going to be one of the most unique, old-time sounding kits.  At some point, one of us said, "we should send one of these to Brett Gardner and see what he could do with it!"  So we did!Brett is a master of classic jazz, he's based in New Orleans and performs with 100% homemade instruments.   There was noone better to test drive this kit!  Ben Gitty printed up a special versio …

Youtube guitar sensation, Samurai Guitarist has just published a new video featuring "ridiculous" instruments he purchased on Etsy.  One of those instruments just happened to be a C. B. Gitty one-string Canjo!  The canjo was actually the instrument that spawned the entire C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply Company and the Samurai Guitarist (real name, Steve Onotera) shows its potential as a unique voice within a song. (Fast forward the video to the 9:20 mark to hear it in the s …

We recently got to know Scott & Betsy Heron of the duo, Green Heron at a gig up here in New Hampshire. Since then, they've appeared on the Gitty Gang show a few times and have quickly become good friends.When we created the 2021 Musical Mutants Build-Off Contest, they jumped right in and created their own double-instrument hybrid.   The only way we can introduce this instrument is to play the video first.  It features the trad music duo somehow pulling a fantastic tune out of this …