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Confused about where in your cigar box guitar to install a disk piezo pickup? Or perhaps how to install one? Those questions and more are answered in this second article of a two-part series abou

Climbing over and sorting through mountains of goods, long since discarded and forgotten, she pauses to consider the life of each item that catches her eye. She imagines the past each has had, b

This gorgeous five-string sports a handmade box that was crafted from exotic wood off-cuts.  From the screened in F-hole to the hand-machined Mercury symbol on the headstock, everything is beautifully

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Yesterday afternoon, Glenn Watt and I hauled about 700 board feet of 150-year-old wooden planks from an old hat factory into Gitty HQ. When I got to work yesterday morning, a reclaimed wood run was no

Photo credit: Ole: www.photole.comby Shane SpealTwo months ago, I was invited to take part in a collaborative project headed up by the GoodThree branding and design firm.  The idea was to pair a beer

"I build cigar box guitars to sell and recently bought 10 pickups from China only to find that some parts on each pickup were wrong. But Kim at C. B. Gitty offered to help with my dilemma. Thanks

You cigar box guitar builders continue to astound us folk, here at C. B. Gitty. Whether you're sharing your latest tricked-out gitty, experimenting with new ideas, or building your very first guitar,

  The Cigar Box Guitars in Schools Program

In this post, you'll see episode #123 of the Gitty Gang Show: the Valentine's Day Jam Session. For this show, the Gang hit the stage and took turns leading performances of songs ranging from an Irish

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 neck using a

Reduced feedback. Deeper bass response. And no more "quack!" I was complaining about certain tonal problems with piezo pickups when the idea for this standalone pre-amp came to me. It's deceptive