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Follow the historic plans below to build this 1917 era cigar box ukulele.  Shown above, this recreation was made by "FloridaSon" of Fort Pierce, Florida, built according t

Photo credit: Ole: www.photole.comby Shane SpealTwo months ago, I was invited to take part in a collaborative project headed up by the GoodThree branding and design firm.  The idea was to pair a beer

Last year, C. B. Gitty introduced the Psycho Knob internal distortion, an easy-to-install circuit that added fuzz effects inside your guitar.  Now Shane Speal shows you how to hack the kit to become

We love seeing your projects posted to the Customer Gallery page!  This fantastic project was made by "FloridaSon" of Fort Pierce, Florida.  He built a faithful recreation of a cigar box ukulele

A guitar whose roots go down into the bedrock bones of the earth... I grew up in Marblehead, Ohio, a rocky peninsula that juts out into Lake Erie. The center of that peninsula is one giant limest

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

Cigar box guitars have a long and storied history in popular music, and they have been used by a wide variety of musicians over the years. One of the most famous musicians known to have started on a c

Electrifying your cigar box guitar or other homemade instrument build can be a very rewarding experience. Being able to plug into an amp not only gives you more volume, but it opens the door to a huge

Have you wondered, what kind of music can be played on a cigar box guitar? You may be surprised by the answer: nearly any style of music you can imagine. From blues to country, and from classical to r

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

We can make all the parts in the world at C. B. Gitty, but it takes a true talent to choose the right parts and the right placements to make something special.  Add to that, the eye of a brilliant bui

I am pretty much a newcomer to junking, picking, thrifting, yard sale-ing and the like. Though I grew up poor and most of my clothes and toys were second-hand, it is only since getting into ma