Shane Speal Signature

This set of Shane Speal Signature tuners is PERFECT for first-time Cigar Box Guitar builders, since it has exactly what you need and tells you how to use it, with no leftover parts! This is a set of 3 open-gear tuners for cigar box guitars, identical to...

This set of Shane Speal Signature tuners is PERFECT for first-time Cigar Box Guitar builders, since it has exactly what you need and tells you how to use it, with no leftover parts! This is a set of 4 open-gear tuners for cigar box guitars...

These string sets have been formulated by Shane Speal, King of the Cigar Box Guitar, based on his 25 years of experience of what works for cigar box guitars on stage. Choose either the acoustic or electric set: acoustic for pure acoustic playing and also...

Shane says:  "When Southbound Strings asked me to develop a set of professional electric guitar strings for cigar box guitar, I demanded three things: The strings must include a ‘wound G’ string (essential for grinding slide...

The Shane Speal Preamp Bundle drives piezo pickups for better clarity, tone and volume while enabling you to “sculpt” tones on cigar box guitars. Shane has been building and playing cigar box guitars for over 25 years and has figured out what...

"The sound is otherworldly, like stepping inside the grooves of an old Victrola record."   -Shane Speal describing his cigar box guitar, Making Poor Man's Guitars, page 11.   We've taken all the parts described in Chapter 2 of...

Although Shane Speal is known for his 3-string cigar box guitar playing, he can be seen playing 4-string cigar box guitar during the majority of his live shows.  These string sets have been formulated by  Speal, based on his 25 years of...

A unique set sound hole pieces, one coin slot and the other, a picture frame.  Each is cut from 1/8-inch solid mahogany panels. In his book "Making Poor Man's Guitars", Shane Speal shows using these two together on a cigar box guitar to create...

Get the bombastic and rumbling cigar box guitar tone of Shane Speal.  As heard in his songs, “Holler,” “Quarter to Nine,” “49 Years” and his cover of “Roadhouse Blues.”   Speal says: My...

"Adding regular metal to the soundboard (box lid) simply adds a trashiness to the tone. Mind you, trashiness is awesome and more trashiness is divine. Paint [can] lid guitars are for us trash addicts!"  -Shane Speal describing his love of paint can...

"This all started with the worst gig of my life... and the birth of my quest for a perfect foot drum instrument. [...] The concept of the Foot Stomper is so simple, I feel like a criminal for withholding the secrets of its construction all these...

Shane Speal says: I designed these strings for cigar box guitarists who want to play all those cool riffs they learned on conventional guitars.  Tuned E-A-D-G, just like the four lowest strings of a guitar, these strings are a lighter gauge,...