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Daniel Hulbert is a Youtube star who specializes in building all kinds of different ukuleles.  We were thrilled to see his latest video, which shows a complete assembly of our best selling Tenorlel

Ben “Gitty” has been cleaning house, making our website even easier find your favorite parts, kits and more: No more wading through endless versions of the same product in the quantities you need. Wa

We thought we'd look back to the cigar box guitar strings of the past... those found-objects that were used by the great blues legends when they were just starting out.  Sure, C. B. Gitty is always de

Want to upgrade your next DIY amplifier with a gain control? Looking for greater control over your cigar box guitars tone? In this post, you'll learn how to hack a  C. B. Gitty 2.5-watt amp cir

This uke goes to 11!  (Or at least that's what Shane Speal claims!). Speal, the self-proclaimed 'King of Cigar Box Guitar' recently unleashed this wild guitar amplifier on the world with a full demo v

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 store

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 pa

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Reclaiming wood from old pallets to build cigar box guitars can be a satisfying endeavor. Giving new life to those cast-off hunks of wood is fun, but also involves some safety concerns. In this

I can already hear it... “Oh, so Gitty’s reviewing the new Shane Speal album he bankrolled. I wonder if THAT review will be unbiased…”Maybe it won’t be entirely unbiased, but I will try to be honest

In the modern cigar box guitar and handmade musical instrument movement, we sometimes forget that there were some key innovations, and innovators, that in their own way helped lay the groundwork for t

This past January I was out in Los Angeles for the winter NAMM show. NAMM is the National Association of Music Merchants, and it is the biggest music-industry trade show in the United States. I wrote