Gitty-Made

We are proud to offer this new design of easy-to-use hardtail bridges designed by Ben "Gitty" Baker specifically for cigar box guitars. These are single-piece, "fixed saddle" style bridges, which can be easily mounted to the top of your cigar box guitar...

Unlike steel or glass slides, bone slides are known for their short-sustained, precise notes.  Not only do they add a new dimension to your slide playing, they're great when you want obtain short chords without any wobbling slide sounds.  Every...

Steeped in the nostalgia of yesteryear, this is one of the best cigar box amplifier designs we have ever created. Designed by our craftsman Jason Munoz, with creative input from Ben "Gitty" Baker and Shane Speal, this is an heirloom-quality piece...

This is a beautiful, distinctive and extremely useful tool for finishing off your fret jobs on guitars, basses, banjos and other fretted instruments. This bevel file tool will give your fret ends a uniform 35-degree bevel, giving them that professional...

Now you can get our popular box kit with a custom-printed top, using artwork (old photos, graphics, etc) that YOU provide! Build a truly unique guitar using these great-sounding wooden boxes! This is a simple kit for easily constructing a 8.5 x 11"...

Add some SATIN to your slide guitar tone! These polished copper and brass guitar slides are light and thin-walled, perfect for fast and fearsome screaming rock and blues leads on your guitar or cigar box guitar! The stubby version is 1 1/2 inches in...

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...

We are proud to offer these beautiful, solid brass, precision-cut instrument bridges to the homemade instrument community. Based on the most popular of our wooden bridge designs, these golden tone-rich beauties are laser cut from 0.1875-inch (4.8mm)...

These are the perfect "cover-up" for neck-notching mistakes! This is a set of two neck collars for cigar box guitars, made to fit over 1x2 necks that have been extended at the heel (see photo), to help hide jagged notch cuts. These collars are laser cut...

These are the perfect "cover-up" for neck-notching mistakes, or purely for decorative purposes! This is a set of two neck collars for cigar box guitars, made to fit over a standard 1x2 (0.75" x 1.5") neck where it exits the box, to help hide jagged...

This set of specially designed parts will help you make the best use of your C. B. Gitty Hubcap Reso Cone (or regular paint can lid) on your special instrument build. Ben "Gitty" Baker designed these mounting ring systems to make it as easy as possible...

NO MEASURING, NO MARKING, NO MISTAKES, NO PROBLEMS! "This thing is just great. It made that tedious, time consuming and exacting chore a snap. I love it ... Worth every penny." - Bayou Cigar Box Guitars A C. B. Gitty original, the Quick-Slotter Fret...