Part Packs & Bundles

We created this cigar box guitar kit with one goal in mind - to make a kit that would allow anyone to build a real, playable cigar box guitar in about an hour at the kitchen table, with only the most basic tools (a screwdriver and small hammer). And we...

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitar using our modern parts and fully detailed directions.  Just add your own 1 x 2 x 34-inch hardwood plank for the neck.  Thousands of builders have used these kits to create their own...

Build what you Play, Play what you Love!  Great for new and experienced builders, this kit comes with everything necessary to build your very own 3-String Fretted Cigar Box Guitar. Fretted neck, hardware, cigar box, complete instructions - it's...

Build the mythical one-string guitar from blues and Americana folklore.   This is the instrument that Blind Willie Johnson first learned slide guitar.   Countless other music legends have started with a diddley bow, too.   Originally...

This is an acoustic canjo kit, offered under the American Canjo Company(tm) brand by C. B. Gitty. Each of these instrument kits include a fretted neck that is hand-made in the C. B. Gitty workshops in New Hampshire, USA. They are fun and easy build and...

This is a pack of great parts intended for building a concert-scale Ukulele (15" scale length, 23" total length), but they are also great for cigar box ukuleles and other homemade instrument projects! While this is not a true kit (in that it does not...

    See the Cigar Box Nation article on Artistic Lap Steels for even more inspiration The 2x4 Lap Steel parts kit: just supply your own scrap 2x4 plank! Finally learn how to play lap steel guitar without investing in a brand new instrument...

The "Tin Pan Alley" 3-String Paint Can Resonator Guitar sounds like the Deep South, circa 1928.  It delivers the iconic classic metallic, Delta Blues tone in an easy-to-assemble guitar kit. Play it fretted or use a slide - the secret to the...

This deluxe kit includes everything you need to build am amazing-sounding heirloom quality 3-string electric cigar box guitar, including detailed instructions written by the man himself, Glenn Watt!Glenn has taken our popular Hot Rod Parts kit and...

Our blues-iest kit yet!  Four (or 3) strings in Open G tuning with a classic Lipstick Tube Pickup!   Easy to assemble and ready to be stained, painted, woodburned, decorated and customized. The top panel can even be flipped around to...

"The sound is otherworldly, like stepping inside the grooves of an old Victrola record."   -Shane Speal describing his cigar box guitar, Making Poor Man's Guitars, page 11.   We've taken all the parts described in Chapter 2 of...

Build your own resonator guitar for $ hundreds less than any dobro on the market.  The Hubcap Howler isn't just a fun kit... it's a serious deep-blues guitar. Assembly time: just 3-4 hours, not including glue drying time Traditional cigar...