Guitar & Instrument Parts

Add an awesome decorative fretboard to your fretless cigar box guitar, and show your pride in the USA at the same time! Just peel off the backing, snug the front edge up against your nut, and push it down onto the neck. Voila, you've got a perfectly...

Foundry Tone Pickups by C. B. Gitty introduces Tone that's straight out of a juke joint. Primal and unrefined... without the hum.   DELUXE VERSION!  Includes fully pre-wired harness with volume & tone pots and 1/4" jack...

This magnetic pickup harness combines some of our best-selling components into one handy pre-wired rig that you can easily include in your next cigar box guitar or other build! This harness features a beautiful chrome enclosed single-coil pickup (our...

This is a six-pack of nice narrow-profile short-shaft 250KOhm audio taper pots, perfect for use as volume controls in a guitar, amp or cigar box guitar! As you can see from the photos, these are narrow-profile pots with a 15mm base. These pots have...

This is a handy fretting scale length template, with four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for 16-inch, 17-inch (tenor ukulele), 18-inch and 19-inch (baritone ukulele). That's just $1.75 per template! These are some nice...

Ben Gitty says: "There is no one on earth better qualified than Shane Speal to write the book on cigar box guitars and handmade instruments. He has been living, eating and breathing this subject for 25 years, and all of that passion, study and...

This is a pack of 10 individual 20-inch (50.8cm) lengths of shielded wire, perfect for use in cigar box guitar electronics. This is a "2-conductor" wire, with a single insulated wire for the positive, and a braided bare wire for the shielding/ground. The...

This is a pack of two general-usage capacitors, rated at 0.033 microfarads. These capacitors are great for incorporating into guitar tone circuits, amplifier circuits and more! Please note that we do not include instructions or how-to along with these,...

These poplar Canjo necks are hand-made in the C. B. Gitty workshops in the state of New Hampshire, USA, and we work hard to make sure they are a high-quality product! We use these same necks on our own various canjos as well as in our Complete Canjo Kit...

This is a 3-pack of nice large 80mm (3.2") chrome wire sound hole covers. These can be screwed to either the outside or inside of the box, above or beneath (or both!) your sound hole(s), to give your CBG a very distinctive look. They also make...

This premium Jescar 18% nickel-silver fret wire is both beautiful and durable, a perfect finishing touch for your special build or re-fretting job! With its wider crown width and significantly higher crown height than standard "medium" fret wire, you can...

These low-profile mini humbuckers have amazing tone and are perfect for cigar box guitars. Originally designed for jazz semi-hollow body archtop guitars, Juke Shake Pickups are an easy-mount solution for cigar box guitars.   Built around an...