Gift Ideas

This 2-piece set of acrylic laser-cut and engraved templates provide you with 10 separate magnetic pickup routing templates, one for each of our most popular varieties of magnetic pickups. From the Soapbar P-90 to the Snake Oil Mini Humbucker, standard...

This is a sturdy Black trucker's hat style cap, proudly emblazoned with the Cigar Box Nation Logo. These hats have an adjustable hook-and-loop-style strap in the back making them One-Size-Fits-Almost-All (Ben Gitty's got a big 'ole head, and they fit on...

This is a sturdy dark navy blue trucker-style hat, emblazoned with a patch bearing a rustic re-imagining of the C. B. Gitty logo. These hats have an adjustable hook-and-loop-style strap in the back making them One-Size-Fits-Almost-All (Ben Gitty's got a...

In this 159-page book, Ben "Gitty" Baker teaches his methods for installing frets on cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Over the past 10 years thousands of necks, fretboards and instruments have been fretted in the C. B. Gitty workshop,...

    Build your own real working microphone!  Sounds like a vintage AM radio - perfect for vocals and harmonica.  These simple kits are great for ages 12+ and deliver an incredible sound.  No soldering needed Featuring our...

These are the perfect ceramic stubby slides for cigar box guitar playing (and other slide instruments with 3-4 strings).   Their shorter length allows for quick maneuverability between the strings and the mass is great for sustain...

The 65 songs in this 215-page songbook form Volume Two of a collection of some of the best traditional tunes from the mountains, farms and woods of America - Old-Time and Bluegrass favorites that have been a mainstay of down-home American music for...

Ben Gitty writes: As you probably know, the Irish have a bit of a reputation for enjoying their drink... and for writing songs to celebrate it. This songbook contains my favorite traditional Irish drinking songs: songs specifically about booze and...

A collection of 38 beloved, easy-to-play sea shanties and other seafaring songs from Ireland, Scotland, England, America and beyond, arranged in tablature for 3-string Open GDG cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Each song...

Order this book direct from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3G5XvVv   Here is a perfect introductory cigar box guitar building book for the first-time builder! This 140-page professionally-printed book will walk you through all of the steps to build...

This book contains all of the canjo-building how-to info that Ben "Gitty" Baker has gleaned over almost a decade of building these fun, easy-to-play instruments. Canjos are one of the easiest homemade instruments to build, and now you have all of the...

Shane Speal's hyper-speed short slide, perfect for electric cigar box guitars.  Fully adjustable, enabling you to fit it to your slide fingertip for fast leads. There are many household items that can be used as a slide for your Cigar Box Guitar...