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With hundreds of entries via C. B. Gitty's Customer Gallery, CigarBoxNation.com, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, the Santa's Workshop photo contest was our most popular ever!  Thank you to all who submitted their photos and descriptions featuring instruments made for the 2018 Holiday Season.Luckily for us, this wasn't a judged contest. The instruments were all fantastic!  Instead (as per the rules), we used random number generators to pick one grand prize winner and five runners up. & …

This is the last Friday in 2018. Therefore, this is the last Watt Corner of the year!And what a Corner it is.2018 is filled with so many fantastic handmade musical instrument photo and story submissions from you, our friends and fellow builders.In turn, each Watt Corner segment on The Gitty Gang Show has been an honor to curate and share with the rest of the world.How Watt Corner WorksIf you’re unfamiliar with how Watt Corner works, here’s a brief run-down before we get to the amazing submission …

Every cigar box guitar builder needs some inspiration now and again. Why not get inspired by what other builders have made?We love seeing what you build. And that's why we love receiving your photo and video submissions, along with your builder's stories, through our customer gallery link. We share your submissions on our website so that others see not only what you built, but also the specific products you used. In this way, you inspire another builder, and he or she encourages the ne …

Shane Speal has posted photos of his latest C. B. Gitty kit project, a retro-inspired  Gittylele Concert Uke. The ukulele is part of his "Retro Trifecta" of Gitty Kits, which includes the G-Bass and Tin Pan Alley resonator guitar.   Speal's Retro Uke The Gittylele Concert DIY Ukulele Kit is the full 15-inch concert scale version of our popular ukulele kit. Speal first painted the soundboard in the same off-white color as used on the other two kits. He then c …

This uke goes to 11!  (Or at least that's what Shane Speal claims!). Speal, the self-proclaimed 'King of Cigar Box Guitar' recently unleashed this wild guitar amplifier on the world with a full demo video featuring several different guitars.  (See video below).  The amp is made with C. B. Gitty's 2.5 Watt Parts-Only Cigar Box Guitar Amp Kit and a junk ukulele from a yard sale.   Speal started the project by carefully removing the back from the ukulele.  "The b …