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Since introducing our amplifier kits several years ago, we have been using a 3.5" 1-watt speaker, which just happened to perfectly fit 80mm fan grills. Unfortunately despite the thousands of them we bought, the manufacturer decided to discontinue that design. We are down to our last 100 or so of them, and when they are gone we will have to revamp our kits to work with a new slightly smaller 4-watt speaker. The main change will be that the kits will no longer come with the 80mm wire grill speaker …

Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker will be attending the Chicago Cigar Box Guitar Festival this year, and it was announced yesterday that the company will be helping to sponsor the event. C. B. Gitty will be sponsoring the Open Mic stage, and who knows, he might even get up on the stage to sing and play a number or two. For more info on the Chicago CBG festival, click on the poster image below. …

We've been busy posting new tablatures and other "how to play" info for our American Canjo Company canjos in the knowledgebase over at CigarBoxGuitar.com. These "tabs" use a simple numbering method corresponding to the frets on our canjos to allow you to quickly and easily start picking popular and well-known songs! CigarBoxGuitar.com also has a growing knowledgebase of how-to articles and videos related to building cigar box guitars, so if you haven't had a look, head on over and …

Yesterday (August 27), Justin Johnson (the Wizard of the Cigar Box Guitar) challenged me to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Never one to back away from a challenge, the video below shows my response.Watch for those five special paint can guitars to be available soon in our web store!

Glenn Watt and I just got back from the 5th annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar festival. I have been at all five of them, and this was Glenn's third. Despite a host of challenges, from a steady rain that fell for the first few hours of the fest, to the fact that the organizer Jim Lewin spent a month or so on death's door earlier this year, the fest was a big success.Glenn wrote last week about how great the CBG community can be, and how CBG fests are the perfect place to meet and greet - and h …