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We have created a new single listing for cigar box guitar fretboards, which allows you to choose the wood and style (blank, slotted, fully fretted) that you want to buy. This new combined listing replaces the separate listings we used to have for each separate wood. All of the old listing pages now redirects to the new page.In related news, there are big things coming in our homemade instrument fretboard division. We will soon be offering more scale lengths, zero fret options, diatonic …

The new Gittylele ukulele kit is a blank canvas.  Not only is it a fun and easy kit to build, but all the bare wood on the surface just screams for custom artwork. Use Custom Artwork I recently customized this uke by wood-burning vintage advertising all over the body. I chose labels and logs from 1930's fruit crates to give the uke the appearance that it was actually built using antique boxes.The Gittylele kit is made from thin birch plywood, which is a dream to …

Hey all, it's Shane. I just want to reach out with a little advice to help you build cigar box guitars that play well and sell.  Learning how to play cigar box guitar, even badly, can increase the quality of the instruments on your workbench.  This little blog is for the builders looking to take their craft to the next level. Play Guitars To Build Better Guitars Two years ago, I was hanging backstage with Reverend Peyton, discussing cigar box guitars.  …

From our family to all of you, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  Sincerely, Ben Gitty, Dawn, Dale, Tammi, Farley, Debbie, Laurel, Kim, Lindsay, Shereen, Glenn, Nick, Ario, Stan and Shane.

Hey all, Ben Gitty here! Recently I took part in decorating the set for the CBS TV show Bull, starring Michael Weatherly of NCIS fame and Freddy Rodriguez. They needed the scene to look like the workshop of an eccentric guitar builder, so I loaded up the Gitty van and headed down to Congers, NY ready to get to work as a set design consultant.The episode with the scene aired on December 13 (you can watch it here on the CBS site - look for Episode 9 "Light My Fire"). We've gone through the sc …