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How to Transform a C. B. Gitty Gold Foil Soundhole Pickup into a Vintage Top-Mount Pickup
The C. B. Gitty Gold Foil acoustic pickup is one of the most versatile and easiest magnetic pickups to mod for cigar box guitars.
They're deliciously cheap and I always have a half dozen of them in my woodshop at any time. It should be noted that these suckers have such a gloriously trashy 1960's vibe to them, just like Hound Dog Taylor's guitars.
I recently used a Gold Foil in a cigar box guitar and I radically modded it to look like a rusty old Harmony/Teisco top-mount pi
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18th Nov 2020
Shane Speal shows off his favorite Gitty parts on a new guitar
In this video, King of the Cigar Box Guitar Shane Speal shows off one of his recent cigar box guitar builds, featuring all of the great C. B. Gitty parts on it:
Shane Speal Signature 3-string TunersTeisco(tm) Del-Rey-style Gold Foil surface mount pickupChrome 3-string Hard-tail BridgeDecorative brass box cornersNickel-silver fretwire
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4th Feb 2015