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...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

Greeting CB Gitty staff, I wanted to share a recent build that has many of your products and parts. CB Gitty parts are:TunersMedium Fret WireLipstick pickupTailstockPsycho knobBridge and biscuitBone

Three new how-to articles dealing with popular Cigar Box Guitar concepts have recently been posted in the How-to knowledgebase at CigarBoxGuitar.com. Two deal with popular 3-string tunings, and the th

It was a special morning at the 2017 New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival when our own Shane Speal got to interview several cigar box guitar builders who attended.  Instead of just asking a few quest

When C. B. Gitty announced the launch of the  G-Bass 2-string Bass Kit, I started freaking out in pure musical ecstasy.  Ever since I started playing 3-string cigar box guitar, I've continually l

Here's a great letter we just received from Roger Ring.  He took our 4-Pole Pre-wired Pickup and used it in his latest diddley bow one-string instrument!Dear Gitty,Somebody probably has done this befo

On my last trip down to Arkansas I made it a point to stop in and see Bill Jagitsch (a.k.a. "Bluesboy Jag") and compare notes. We ended up trading boxes and I got a Comacho from him that I thought w

Here's Glenn Watt playing a boxless cigar box guitar! That's right folks, all of that sound from just a lid! This is part of one of the A. J. Gaither Arkansas Tenor cigar box guitars we build and sell

I can already hear it... “Oh, so Gitty’s reviewing the new Shane Speal album he bankrolled. I wonder if THAT review will be unbiased…”Maybe it won’t be entirely unbiased, but I will try to be honest

We thought we'd look back to the cigar box guitar strings of the past... those found-objects that were used by the great blues legends when they were just starting out.  Sure, C. B. Gitty is always de

Build # 16 – 3 String CBGI finished this build in late 2015 – before I read Glenn’s article “Improve your cigar box guitars by getting to know the anatomy and orientation of open gear tuners.”Yep… I i