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This uke goes to 11!  (Or at least that's what Shane Speal claims!). Speal, the self-proclaimed 'King of Cigar Box Guitar' recently unleashed this wild guitar amplifier on the world with a full demo video featuring several different guitars.  (See video below).  The amp is made with C. B. Gitty's 2.5 Watt Parts-Only Cigar Box Guitar Amp Kit and a junk ukulele from a yard sale.   Speal started the project by carefully removing the back from the ukulele.  "The b …

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 …