Tools & Templates

Presenting our second-generation “GEN2” line of plastic fretting templates! A huge improvement over the original model, these templates are ¼ the thickness, include more template features, are nice and flexible, and best of all are...

This is a high-quality dovetail-style saw, perfect for cutting fret slots for standard fret wires that fit in a .023" slot. The blade has a .020" kerf and is 8" long with a steel reinforced ridge along the top - much like the more expensive fretting saws...

Choose from four different options for these handy fretting scale length templates! Each template contains four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for different ranges of scale lengths, from the shortest (soprano ukulele and mandolin at...

Take the guesswork and error out of cutting neck notches in your cigar box guitars with this custom laser-cut centering template! This template is based on a tool used by Shane Speal for years, and allows you to quickly and easily find the center of a...

These templates allow you to quickly and accurately mark out cigar box guitar headstocks for drilling tuner holes. 7 different templates are included, which cover popular 3 and 4-string layouts. 2 Left / 1 Right, 2 Right / 1 Left, 3 Right, 3 Left, and 3...

Finally, a low-cost, professional solution to achieving nice, straight fret slots! This miter box kit was designed by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker specifically to make it easy to cut nice, straight slots in your 1 1/2" wide cigar box guitar necks and...

 The All-In-One Fretting Starter Kit:  Everything you need to set up your own fretting station in your shop! We've had many customers ask us for an all-in-one setup for fretting instruments, and we've put together a great deal that will save...

This is a handy set of round files, originally intended for cleaning the tips of welders, but absolutely perfect for filing string slots into nuts and bridges for cigar box guitars! The self-contained set features a range of 13 sizes. Unlike most...

We've finally found a source for a decent luthier's file designed for dressing and rounding frets after installation. A two-sided file, this tool will help make the shaping of your frets a much easier task at a much lower price than other similar tools...

This is a set of 16 clear acrylic cigar box guitar headstock templates, designed for use on cigar box guitar necks with extended headstocks (headstocks that have had additional pieces of wood glued onto them to make them wider). These designs were...

This 2-piece set of acrylic laser-cut and engraved templates provide you with 10 separate magnetic pickup routing templates, one for each of our most popular varieties of magnetic pickups. From the Soapbar P-90 to the Snake Oil Mini Humbucker, standard...

This is a laser-cut and engraved centering rule, which can be used to quickly and easily find the center of cigar boxes, cookie tins and pretty much any other object less than 14" wide. We designed this tool to make it easier for cigar box guitar...