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When we came out with our Cigar Box Amplifier Kit, we never expected to see so many radical designs, such as this dual-speaker tweed amp.   This is an easy project with only minimal soldering skill needed. To make this, you'll need a basic soldering iron, a spool of solder, and a pair of wire strippers.  This battery-driven guitar amp can be assembled in just a few hours.  Housed in the top half of a vintage 1950’s film projector case, it’s 2.5 watts of solid-s …

I'm an electronics idiot. There, I said it! I suck when it comes to soldering and breadboards and all that crap. I couldn't wire my way out of a paper bag.But then C. B. Gitty came out with a pre-wired cigar box amp kit, and I just had to dive in and try one out. And then another, and another.The Gitty amp kit is a simple 2.5-watt amp that delivers living room volume in a tiny package. Most of their pictures show a standard cigar box with a hole cut in the middle and a speaker with …

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 …