188 results for 'hard-tail'

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

Find this book on Amazon: “Fiddle Fever” by Sharon Arms DoucetPlunge into the world of the early 1900’s Louisiana bayou, where a fourteen-year-old cajun boy named Felix struggles to find a way to let

You love building cigar box guitars, but sometimes there are too many obstacles to get the look and sound you want from a cigar box. Perhaps where you live, you have a tough time finding cigar bo

We offer a growing range of custom CNC and laser-carved sound hole covers. I thought it might be interesting to walk through how some of the fancier ones are made. As an example (because it happene

A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Make a Straight Cigar Box Guitar Headstock With Tools You Already Own We all know how popular those angled scarf-joint headstocks are, how useful the design is, and

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,

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

(Mouse over each photo for a description of who's in it) Being a bit of an introvert, sometimes I need a reminder of just how important it is to get out of the shop and visit with the community

More and more people are getting into building cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. In turn, a growing number are also hitting various festivals, craft shows, and street fairs to try t

See how Shane Speal turns dead yard-sale guitars into an outrageous Frankenstein build with C. B. Gitty parts.The FrankenTulip is one gnarly slide monster!  Loaded with a snarling P90 pickup and str

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