Part Packs & Bundles

We created this cigar box guitar kit with one goal in mind - to make a kit that would allow anyone to build a real, playable cigar box guitar in about an hour at the kitchen table, with only the most basic tools (a screwdriver and small hammer). And we...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions.  Just add your own 1 x 2 x 34-inch hardwood plank for the neck.  Thousands of builders have used these kits to create their own...

Build the mythical one-string guitar from blues and Americana folklore.   This is the instrument that Blind Willie Johnson first learned slide guitar.   Countless other music legends have started with a diddley bow, too.   Originally...

Build what you Play, Play what you Love!  Great for new and experienced builders, this kit comes with everything necessary to build your very own 3-String Fretted Cigar Box Guitar. Fretted neck, hardware, cigar box, complete instructions - it's...

This is an acoustic canjo kit, offered under the American Canjo Company(tm) brand by C. B. Gitty. Each of these instrument kits include a fretted neck that is hand-made in the C. B. Gitty workshops in New Hampshire, USA. They are fun and easy build and...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions - you just supply a stick for the neck!  Just add your own 1 x 2 x 34-inch hardwood plank for the neck.  Thousands of builders...

This is a pack of great parts intended for building a concert-scale Ukulele (15" scale length, 23" total length), but they are also great for cigar box ukuleles and other homemade instrument projects! While this is not a true kit (in that it does not...

  See the Cigar Box Nation article on Artistic Lap Steels for even more inspiration The 2x4 Lap Steel parts kit: just supply your own scrap 2x4 plank! Finally learn how to play lap steel guitar without investing in a brand new instrument. ...

Notes bloom and ring out in our Cigar Box Ukulele kits.  Make a fully playable instrument with a vintage "throwback" look.  Everything is here, from the neck, fretboard...even the box!   This is a complete, ready-to-assemble box ukulele...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions.  Thousands of builders have used these kits to create their own distinctive instruments! Thank you to Chris from CMR Woodworks for...

The "Tin Pan Alley" 3-String Paint Can Resonator Guitar sounds like the Deep South, circa 1928.  It delivers the iconic classic metallic, Delta Blues tone in an easy-to-assemble guitar kit. Play it fretted or use a slide - the secret to the...

This deluxe kit includes everything you need to build am amazing-sounding heirloom quality 3-string electric cigar box guitar, including detailed instructions written by the man himself, Glenn Watt!Glenn has taken our popular Hot Rod Parts kit and...