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  The Cigar Box Guitars in Schools Program

At the Southbound String Company, we are dedicated to offering cigar box guitar and other handmade/homemade instrument builders a wide variety of string sets to choose from for their special builds...

In this 120th Gitty Gang Show episode, Ben reminds everyone that no matter what negativity we face in life, we gotta focus on the good.Join the Gang as they talk about things such as Shane Speal's inc

Learning to play slide on your 3-string cigar box guitar can be hard.But not with Shane Speal's cigar box guitar lessons.Here's 4-part video lesson series from Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box G

Recently, Gitty customer Vince Wesley sent us a couple of pictures of recent builds, and one of them really "shone" - a homemade ukulele with light-up fret position markers! In the builder's diary bel

This week at C. B. Gitty we are officially launching a new brand of instrument strings specifically focused on Cigar Box Guitars and the handmade/homemade music movement: The Southbound String Company

Seven years ago, I had never heard of cigar box guitars or other homemade instruments.I had dabbled a little with "restoring" an old Kay guitar and had read a book on how to build a bluegrass mandolin

I love junk. Not for its own sake, really, or out of any desire to accumulate it myself. I love junk because of its potential – the story of what it was, and the unwritten story of what it could

After the enormous success of our "Hard Times Make Great Music" instrument contest, we decided we're gonna party like it's 1869 and have a Banjo Build-Off!    The first set of cigar box instrument p

Just as A. E. Staley's baking powder worked wondrous transformations in bakers' recipes a century ago, so a hearty measure of artistry transformed an old packing crate into this beautiful heirloom

In this post for building canjos, you'll learn how to remove the top from a beverage can in under a minute without a single tool!Making your own canjo is one of the most uncomplicated and satisfying m

Our customers are the best. You all build with resourcefulness and ingenuity, making the best of tough situations, all the while sharing what you learned with the rest of the cigar box guitar communit