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Shane Speal brought a dead cigar box guitar back to life using C. B. Gitty parts. The guitar was a 3-string solid-body, built in 2007 by West Virginia builder, Tomi-O Hartwell, and was an essential axe in Speal's live shows for many years. The original guitar sported two P90 soapbar pickups wired to a selector switch and one volume. After countless gigs and constant abuse (including Speal throwing the guitar across stage at the end of shows), the pickups died, and the guitar was unusabl …

Hey folks! Nick again with the second part of my 7-20-4 build.Step 4: The BridgeThe bridge turned out to be a bit of a stalling point on the build. As I mentioned in the last article, I had settled on the 3-string Gold hard-tail bridge. When I went to attack my bridge for a mockup, I found that the screws lined up perfectly on one side… and ended up hitting the corner of the very corner of the neck, and caused a blowout due to there not being enough meat to grab.This was where I r …

Howdy folks! My name is Nick Lanciano, and I am one of the newer folks over here at C. B. Gitty. This is a build progress diary I wrote for the building of my second Cigar Box Guitar, a 3-String Electric Cigar Box Guitar using a 7-20-4 Cigar Box (one of my personal favorites). Without further ado, here is a recap of what happened during this build!Step One: The BoxLike a lot of builders out there, I started with a box. Not just any box however, this was a box that I had some history with. I …