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Ben Gitty sat down on the Juke Shack porch recently to take a little spin on some old Americana tunes. As usual, he can't help but do a few rounds of speed-em-up at the end. …

Here's a great letter we just received from Roger Ring.  He took our 4-Pole Pre-wired Pickup and used it in his latest diddley bow one-string instrument!Dear Gitty,Somebody probably has done this before, but I hadn't seen it. I call it the Gitty 441 Diddley Bow Pickup. (441= 4 poles for one string ). Sounds great !!!  Used your bass tuner also which worked out great.I made this for a firefighter so I used aluminum plate on it. Found a fast flashing red/white LED and mounted it up b …

Fender Lunchbox 3-string Guitar by Scott McGilliard This is my build number 30. When I saw the Fender Lunch Boxes, I just had to build me my own Fender. Thanks Gitty for getting me started and keeping me building.-Scott Start with these Gitty ingredients: 1/2 set Chrome Sealed-Gear Guitar TunersBone Nut BlankFretboard - Genuine Mahogany - fully frettedChrome "Snake Oil" Mini Humbucking Pickup3-string Chrome Hard-tail Bridge1/2 set - Shane Speal 6-string Cigar Box Guitar String Set (A_D_G s …

There's something special about the big, boomy Tabak Especial Toro cigar boxes ($9.99).  Not only are they sturdy wooden boxes, but they have such a large face, that I was inspired to turn a bunch of them into double neck cigar box guitars.The process was just as easy as making a conventional neck--through cigar box guitar.  The only change was that I notched and installed two parallel necks (each with 3-strings) instead of one.  I even installed a piezo disc harness ($13.99) on t …

Connect Church in St. Louis has become one of the earliest adopters of C. B. Gitty's Cigar Box Guitars in Schools Program by providing 15 Sunday school students with diddley bow kits.  Lead by teachers, Dana Weigel and Chris Perstrope, the class first built their own cigar box diddley bows and then performed for the entire congregation.  We first blogged about them in March when we posted a video of the kids practicing and getting to know their instruments.Since then, the kids …