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Shane Speal's "Vintage Advertising" Uke(Post)
The new Gittylele ukulele kit is a blank canvas. Not only is it a fun and easy kit to build, but all the bare wood on the surface just screams for custom artwork. Use C ...
Ben's Blog: "The Best Friend I've Never Met"(Post)Like Jack Kerouac, I have always been drawn to the edges and fringes of modern society. The drifters and hermits, modern-day hoboes and wild-eyed street people who stalk the back alleys and forgotten ...
The Reso-Electro Cigar Box Guitar Project - Pt. 1: Intro, Parts and Layout(Post)Shane Speal's latest four-string cigar box guitar combines a wide array of CBGitty.com parts into an alternate-reality, retro blues machine. Follow along as he describes the gumbo of parts, ...
The Reso-Electro Cigar Box Guitar Project - Pt. 2: Fitting Neck to Cigar Body + Location of Hubcap Reso(Post)Part 2 in Shane Speal's four-string cigar box guitar project shows how to properly align the neck to the center of the Hubcap resonator cone. It also shows a great way to notch out a ne ...
From Woodshed Tinkering to Product Launch - the Story of the Psycho Box(Post)We've always got new product ideas in the works here at C. B. Gitty. From new kits and parts packs to cigar box amplifiers and guitars to expanded variations and options for existing products, the ...
How To Cut Perfect Cigar Box Guitar Scarf Joints By Hand (Post)Have you cut a scarf joint for your cigar box guitar neck by hand? Was the cut frustrating and did the result require a lot of sanding to make the joint glue-ready? What if you could hav ...
Building "The Quarryman" Dynamite Crate Guitar - A Photo Diary(Post)A guitar whose roots go down into the bedrock bones of the earth... I grew up in Marblehead, Ohio, a rocky peninsula that juts out into Lake Erie. The center of that peninsula is one giant limes ...
Cigar Box Guitar Secrets: Antique Boxes, Vintage Fretboards & More(Post)Want to build a cigar box guitar worth handing down to future generations? Want an antique-look and terrific tone for your next build?You can build that kind of cigar box guitar with a little help fr ...
Building the "Baker's Friend" Guitar - A Photo Diary(Post)Just as A. E. Staley's baking powder worked wondrous transformations in bakers' recipes a century ago, so a hearty measure of artistry transformed an old packing crate into this beautiful heirloom ...
Building the "One Way Ticket" Steamer Trunk Guitar - A Photo Diary(Post)There's nothing like a cluttered junk shop to set the handmade instrument builder's imagination to fizzing. For me recently, that inspiration came in the aisle of an antique/junk/hardware ...
The American Crayon Company of Sandusky, Ohio(Page)In 2014 C. B. Gitty owner Ben Baker was able to buy a few hundred board feet of antique heart pine beams and maple floor boards from the 112-year-old American Crayon Company factory in Sandusky, Ohio ...
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Historic Cigar Box Fiddle Poster - from Edwin Forbes' Civil War Engraving "Home Sweet Home"
C. B. Gitty Publishing
$7.50This poster features a reprint of the classic Edwin Forbes Civil War sketch of a Union soldier playing his "Figaros" cigar box fiddle while in winter camp. Forbes made this sketch while traveling...$7.50 -
1886 Cigar Box Banjo Plans 12x18 Poster - reprint of real, vintage cigar box guitar plans!
C. B. Gitty Publishing
$5.00This poster features a reprint of classic cigar box banjo (guitar) plans, which originally ran in the St. Joseph Herald newspaper in Michigan in 1886. These plans, which seem to be based on the...$5.00 -
Open G "GDG" Essential Cigar Box Guitar Chords Poster
C. B. Gitty Publishing
$10.00This poster contains all of the ESSENTIAL information you need to start strumming chords on your 3-string Open G "GDG" cigar box guitar! Designed entirely by Ben "Gitty" Baker based on his own...$10.00 -
Open E "EBE" Essential Cigar Box Guitar Chords Poster
C. B. Gitty Publishing
$10.00This poster contains all of the ESSENTIAL information you need to start strumming chords on your 3-string Open E "EBE" cigar box guitar! Designed by Ben "Gitty" Baker at the request of well-known...$10.00 -
Open G 4-string "GDGB" Essential Cigar Box Guitar Chords Poster
C. B. Gitty Publishing
$10.00This poster contains all of the ESSENTIAL information you need to start strumming chords on your 4-string Open G "GDGB" cigar box guitar! Designed entirely by Ben "Gitty" Baker based on his own...$10.00 -
Fretting Scale Length Printed Templates - Choose from Four Scale Options (Short to Long)
C. B. Gitty
$7.99Choose from four different options for these handy fretting scale length templates! Each template contains four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for different ranges of scale...$7.99 -
Soap Bar P-90 DIY Pickup Harness Wiring Kit
C. B. Gitty
MSRP: $27.99$26.49Grab your soldering iron and let's get wiring! This DIY wiring kit contains all of the parts and know-how you need to solder up a full cigar box guitar pickup harness using one of our extremely...MSRP: $27.99$26.49 -
"Snake Oil" Mini Humbucker DIY Pickup Harness Wiring Kit - choose your color!
C. B. Gitty
$33.99 - $36.99Choose your color, grab your soldering iron and let's get wiring! This DIY wiring kit contains all of the parts and know-how you need to solder up a full cigar box guitar pickup harness using one of...$33.99 - $36.99 -
"WickedBucker" Surface-Mount Humbucker DIY Pickup Harness Wiring Kit - choose your color!
WickedBucker
$46.99 - $49.99Choose your color, grab your soldering iron and let's get wiring! This DIY wiring kit contains all of the parts and know-how you need to solder up a full cigar box guitar pickup harness using one of...$46.99 - $49.99 -
"Vivigraphic" Illustrated Wooden Cigar Boxes - Choose your print from our gallery of images
C. B. Gitty
$26.99Just choose one of our many beautiful designs below, and we'll print it onto one of our 8 x 10" all-wood cigar boxes! Use these printed boxes for cigar box guitars, purses, jewelry boxes,...$26.99 -
"Making Poor Man's Guitars" by Shane Speal
Shane Speal Signature
$19.99Ben Gitty says: "There is no one on earth better qualified than Shane Speal to write the book on cigar box guitars and handmade instruments. He has been living, eating and breathing this subject for...$19.99
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