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C. B. Gitty
The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
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- 54-116-01
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- 602589226347
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Description
Proudly presenting the classic version of the EASIEST top-mounted cigar box guitar pickup! No routing. No cutting. Just attach to the top of your cigar box guitar. The humbucker design makes it quieter than single coil pickups.
- Dimensions: 1.75 in. x 1.75 in. x ~ 0.125 in. (43mm x 43mm x 3.5mm)
- Impedance: ~2.40 KOhms
- Each pickup is sealed with a sturdy cellophane casing for the best protection of the copper wires. IMPORTANT NOTE: Removal of the casing will likely irreversibly damage the pickup, rendering it inoperable.
- Precision wound & tested to ensure the highest possible consistency and quality
- Proudly MADE IN THE USA, right here in Gonic, New Hampshire, in the C. B. Gitty workshop
We now wind these versatile pickups in-house here at Gitty Headquarters in Gonic, New Hampshire. They are a continuation of the popular line of GittyBucker and WickedBucker pickups, created by Marty Tauber, and carry forward a legacy of design used by cigar box guitar legend Dan Sleep and first created by cigar box guitarist/inventor, Elmar Zeilhofer. Marty Tauber helped us build the winding machine and trained the Gitty crew on his methods for winding these pickups, and we are proud to carry on his work.
Add a convenient mounting ring/cover and screw this pickup directly to the soundboard of your instrument with no cutting or other modifications needed. The covers are laser-cut from night light Baltic birch plywood, and when installed stand just 0.20 inches high.
Basic usage info:
- The bar magnet should be perpendicular to the strings (run under them cross-ways), not in parallel with them. Should be mounted so that the magnet is facing up, and branding label facing down.
- The red wire is positive. The black is ground.
- Try to keep the pickup top around 1/4-inch to ⅜-inch from the strings (closer=louder/hotter, further=quieter).
- The copper wires can be fragile. Take care when installing to avoid pulling or damaging of the copper windings or installation wires.
- For top mounting, we recommend the added protection of our Gittybucker Pickup Covers made from birch wood (Now available in several materials):
We feel legacy is very important with products such as these - so we are proud to say that these GittyBucker pickups are made in full cooperation with Marty Tauber and with the full approval of the original inventor Elmar Zeilhofer, and in memory of Dan Sleep. Note: Elmar still hand-crafts his Original Flatpups in Austria where he lives - you can learn more about them on his site FlatPup.com.
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I bought it from a died person and put your GittyBucker Humbucker with the cover on the top. So it is a nice cigarbox guitar and i am a friend of the instrument. But I don´t want any problems with Peavey it is only a nice joke. Please tell me what you mean?

Germany
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Sebastian, FL, USA
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Waunakee, WI, USA
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Waunakee, WI, USA
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Waunakee, WI, USA
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Waunakee, WI, USA
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The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
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The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

Hamlin, NY, USA
Instrument Build

The GittyBucker Flat-Mount Cigar Box Guitar Humbucker - Made in the USA!
I found this clock on the side of the road a couple of years ago and quickly snatched it up, fully intending on making a guitar out of it. I couldn't figure out a way to get a neck attached with how the box was made. I would come back to it every few months and just stare at it, then put it away once more. Then after a couple of years it finally hit me. I figured out a way to cut the hole in the box so I could fit a neck. The hardware was given to me many years ago by a coworker. It was meant for a 6 string guitar, and is in gold, which is not my favorite color. Instead of using the pickups that were included in the set, I got a Gittybucker pickup instead because of how thin it is. I had to route a small cavity for the pickup, then covered it with scrap wood that I burned my logo onto. The clock works, though I replaced the clock mechanism and the clock face itself. I added a pickguard over the clock made from a sheet of flexible plastic I had laying around. But wait, there's no jack to plug it into an amp. How do you amplify the guitar, you might ask. Well, as the box is somewhat large, there's plenty of space on the inside to put something in, like say, an amplifier and speaker! Instead of getting an actual amplifier, I raided my shelf of past projects and grabbed a tape recorder that I had converted into an amp and wired the pickup directly to it. I removed the speaker and attached it directly on the guitar body, so the sound could come out of the holes in the front. It has volume and tone controls, though if I make the tone too bright it causes feedback. Otherwise it sounds pretty clean. Volume is pretty good since I swapped the speaker for a slightly better one I had in my collection of scrap speakers. The only downside is that the all wood guitar with a tape recorder that runs on 6 C batteries weighs in at a hefty 13 pounds, so it's not the easiest to carry around. However, I may have just made my new guitar for playing while camping!

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Instrument Build

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I am new to this, and looking in a cigar store, I thought these boxes looked great. I glued and screwed 2 together to create the body and went from there. This is my 5th guitar made and it went to my oldest daughter. Each daughter and grandchild and my sister and brother in law will get a guitar made by me.

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This was a bottle I got from a friend. Kind of a prouf of concept. Not much sound till it is on. Then it Rocks! I have another bottle that I will soon need somethingto do with. Have a couple ideas on how to make it better.

Instrument Build

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This was a bottle I got from a friend. Kind of a prouf of concept. Not much sound till it is on. Then it Rocks! I have another bottle that I will soon need somethingto do with. Have a couple ideas on how to make it better.

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