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VIDEO: This Riff Will Help You Sell More Cigar Box Guitars
Want to sell your cigar box guitars? The king of the cigar box guitar Shane Speal shares his sure-fire riff to sell more cigar box guitars with the video lesson in this post. Shane Knows What SellsLet's hand this over to Shane so you can get to the good stuff...
I've been selling cigar box guitars at street fairs and festivals for over twenty years now.
I've learned that it's not enough to just make some guitars and put them on a table.
The fact is, you're fighting for
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3rd Jul 2019
The Canjo that Started it All - How C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply Got Started
Seven years ago, I had never heard of cigar box guitars or other homemade instruments.I had dabbled a little with "restoring" an old Kay guitar and had read a book on how to build a bluegrass mandolin. But the idea of crafting musical instruments out of everyday objects had never occurred to me.That all changed in the summer of 2008 when my friend Dan "Deke" Caldwell and his wife Laurel (who now works in the C. B. Gitty packing department) took a vacation to Tennessee. While in Gatlinburg, they
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9th Apr 2015
C. B. Gitty helping to Sponsor the 3rd Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival!
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.
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4th Sep 2014
C. B. Gitty sings the Ice Bucket Blues
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!
27th Aug 2014
A review of "Holler!", the new album from Shane Speal and his Snake Oil Band
I can already hear it... “Oh, so Gitty’s reviewing the new Shane Speal album he bankrolled.
I wonder if THAT review will be unbiased…”Maybe it won’t be entirely unbiased, but I will try to be
honest. I just couldn’t NOT review this album. So here goes.I am a fan of Shane’s music and style. I have been for a
while. When I was first getting into cigar box guitars 6 years ago, I bought a
couple of Shane’s early records. Those early recordings were raw, rough and they
were gritty. The prod
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25th Jun 2014