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There is a popular perception out there that starting your own business and being your own boss means a life of ease – only working when you want to, money worries a thing of the past, etc. Anyone w

At C. B. Gitty, we've always been excited about the idea of kids building cigar box guitars, and what they can learn from it, so we jump at the chance to work with teachers and schools who

CigarBoxNation.com has been the online home of the cigar box guitar and homemade music movement since Shane Speal launched it back in 2008. In the fourteen years since, over 22,000 people from all ove

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

Want to build better cigar box guitars? Looking for some solid advice on how to build CBGs that sell?In this post, we have three short videos from Shane Speal with insanely useful tricks and hacks to

Did you miss The Gitty Gang Show this past Friday? No worries. We’ve got you covered. In this post, not only do we have the entire video for your viewing pleasure, we also have links to the most im

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

We have so many parents, grandparents and family members who give our instrument kits as gifts. What if you also added the above gift certificate with your gift, inviting the recipient to join you in

With his cigar box guitar built with breast cancer awareness in mind, Mike Boswell knows well the grace of a gift.The soulful, haunting melody of Amazing Grace hangs in the air. Mike stands back, grat

Want to tame the sound of your disk piezo-electrified cigar box guitar? Would you like to keep the disk piezos ease-of-use and get rid of the shrill high-end they often have?You do? Well then, let's t

Thin-topped cigar boxes deliver magnificent tones to homemade instruments. The drawback is they may require a little extra bracing to become guitar bodies that are made to withstand the abuse of s

Since introducing our amplifier kits several years ago, we have been using a 3.5" 1-watt speaker, which just happened to perfectly fit 80mm fan grills. Unfortunately despite the thousands of them we b