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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

Turn a hunk of scrap wood or salvaged material like this baluster into an electric 4-string slide guitar!  This project was created by

Want to know how to install tuners on your cigar box guitar? In this post, you'll learn how to install cigar box guitar tuners, whether your guitar will have 3 or 4 strings.  The instructions in

Shane Speal created this great sounding 2-string slide guitar with nothing but a wooden boat oar and a few CBGitty.com parts.  Because of the long length of the oar, Speal opted to give the instrument

When I first started performing live with my cigar box guitar in 1995, I would shove a tie-tack microphone into the sound hole to amplify it. It was just a cheap $20 mic from Radio Shack that

A simple plastic kazoo can be hacked and electrified.  Imagine humming your kazoo into a guitar amp as it's fed through crazy guitar pedals such as wah-wah and echo.  Give your kazoo more...

This is the second part of our 2-part series on the steps we follow to create one of our custom pewter fairy sound hole covers.Phase 3: Cutting the parts on the CNC router The router is set up for cu

Hey folks! Nick again with the second part of my 7-20-4 build.Step 4: The BridgeThe bridge turned out to be a bit of a stalling point on the build. As I mentioned in the last article, I had settled on

...from the wonderfully warped minds at Disgraceland Cigar Box Guitars.This is a BGCBMDH (Bubble Gum Cigar Box Mandolin Dulcimer Hybrid). It's tuned in G on a 19" scale, using 22-14-10 strings.  It sp

We're starting a new series of posts called "Cooking with Gitty."  Each one will feature your instruments along with the Gitty ingredients you used to create them.  Submit pics of your instrument + a

Can't find the right cigar box? Here's the perfect DIY solution.So you can't find the right size cigar box to build a cigar box guitar. Worse yet, perhaps you can't find any cigar boxes. Or maybe you

Ever plug in a new, electric cigar box guitar build only to find it’s making a humming noise?That small noise can be maddening. After the time and care it took to build your cigar box guitar (CBG), an