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Getting cigar box guitar necks, pickups and all other parts just got less expensive this week. C. B. Gitty just announced sweeping reductions to worldwide postage. The free shipping level for U. S.

On a request from a long-time customer, Ben Gitty recently sat down to arrange tablature for the beloved Scottish song "Flower of Scotland". This piece, often thought to be traditional, was actually ...

Recently C. B. Gitty customer Jack Bowers shared one of his building techniques with us, a great way to add some extra stability to a neck without having to do more bracing inside the box. His method ...

On a recent episode of The History Channel's "American Pickers" show, co-host Mike Wolfe said the following:"If you're gonna be a picker, you gotta think outta the box. That's one of the biggest part ...

Try this alternate Kalimba tuning for an authentic world music sound. Last week, I bought the  C. B. Gitty Kalimba/Thumb Piano Kit as a way to break-out from building stringed inst ...

I buy a lot of cigar boxes from a number of wholesale sources, including a couple of the biggest online and mail-order cigar companies in the country. Just last week a shipment of 5 pallets of empty ...

What is scale length and why should you care?  Given the “no rules” mantra in the cigar box guitar community, the term scale length looks an awful lot like a rule, doesn’t it? And if ther ...

John Dopyera built the first tri-cone resonator guitar in the 1920's to give guitarists a louder acoustic instrument to cut through band settings.  The quest for louder guitars eventually went t ...

We can make all the parts in the world at C. B. Gitty, but it takes a true talent to choose the right parts and the right placements to make something special.  Add to that, the eye of a brillia ...

In part one of this two-part series, I discussed the sorts of things I look out for when junkin' and pickin', as well as the types of places I go to do it - the "What" and the "Where." In this p ...

Why old coins make fantastic decorative additions to cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments.Please note: while this is explicitly written for United States coins, the same concepts apply to ...

Cigar box builder and performing artist William E. W. built a C. B. Gitty part-filled guitar, featuring "the drowning man hand" from a play poster for a production in which he acted. The depress ...