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Want to know how to install tuners on your cigar box guitar? In this post, you'll learn how to install cigar box guitar tuners, whether your guitar will have 3 or 4 strings.  The instructions in this post are adapted from our free plans on how to build a complete cigar box guitar (CBG).  They include simple directions and helpful pictures that will guide you through the short and satisfying installation process.What You'll Need To complete this part of your project, all y …

See how Shane Speal turns dead yard-sale guitars into an outrageous Frankenstein build with C. B. Gitty parts.The FrankenTulip is one gnarly slide monster!  Loaded with a snarling P90 pickup and strung with heavy gauge strings, this axe is a slide guitarist’s neutron bomb.There’s something special about single pickup guitars. When you pick one up, you know its voice will be limited to that one hunk of electro magnet in the body. Most guitar hackers create one- pickup guitars similar to Ed …

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 …

We just marked a bunch of popular products back in stock, and more should arrive Monday. Here's the list:PRODUCTS NOW BACK IN STOCK:Economy Chrome Tuners 3L/3RShane Speal Signature TunersChrome Sealed Gear 3L/3RChrome Half-Moon Tuners 3L/3RBlack Sealed-Gear Tuners 3L/3RChrome and Gold Enclosed Gear Tuners 3L/3REconomy 500K Pots, short and long shaftChrome Humbucker RingsProducts Soon-to-be-Listed:*New* Chrome Economy Tuner Variety (Kluson-style plate, round white pearloid buttons)Expected Monday …