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See how Shane Speal turns dead yard-sale guitars into an outrageous Frankenstein build with C. B. Gitty parts.The FrankenTulip is one gnarly slide monster!  Loaded with a snarling P90 pickup and strung with heavy gauge strings, this axe is a slide guitarist’s neutron bomb.There’s something special about single pickup guitars. When you pick one up, you know its voice will be limited to that one hunk of electro magnet in the body. Most guitar hackers create one- pickup guitars similar to Ed …

Shane Speal explains how to reinforce the internal neck-through cigar box guitar-design for installing thicker magnetic guitar pickups. To learn Shane's tricks on how to mount pickups in neck-through cigar box guitars watch the short video below. Scroll past the video to see the pictures that explain how Shane reinforces his neck-through designs. You also get a little bonus hack on how to add a sturdy mounting surface for hardtail bridges!Watch the Video See the Pics "L …

Shane Speal shows reveals 3 easy ways to get a clean look on your cigar box guitar builds.  These will make your cigar box guitars look more professional and give them that POP you'll be proud of.   Watch the video below to learn Shane's tricks.  Scroll further to see the step-by-step video breakdown done in images. Watch the Video See the Step-by-Step Breakdown"Hey, it’s Shane Speal.I just finished this very simple four-string cigar box guitar."This is the des …

In this video, Shane shows us just how much he loves our laser-cut acrylic fret scale templates, and shows off a great modification he came up with that makes them even more useful for cigar box guitars!Watch the video below for Shane's terrific hack. Scroll down further to read the video transcript.Watch the VideoRead the Transcript, See the Pics"Hi, this is Shane Speal and I think that C. B. Gitty's fret templates are one are one of the best tools he's come out with in the past year. …

While a lot of cigar box guitar builder attention goes to disk piezos and standard acoustic guitar-style rod piezos, there is another option that can be a great addition to your toolbag: the violin-style rod piezo. These little pickups sound great in cigar box guitars, especially when put through one of our pre-amp units.While standard rod piezos have a lead that comes off of one end (shown to the right), the violin-style (shown above) has a central lead that sticks straight down from the m …