C. B. Gitty is dedicated to the education about, and preservation of, cigar box guitars and has a vast knowledge-base of free lessons and other useful information on CigarBoxGuitar.com.

All Lace® Cigar Box Guitar models are shipped with an extra set of Steve Arvey Signature Cigar Box Guitar Strings.

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Grizzly™: A nod to the outdoors with lavish graphics inspired by the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800’s. This group on Cigar Box Nation is intended to be the central point for product updates, annoucements, new product requests, general annoucements, testimonials, general how-to discussions and more. All are welcome, and your participation is appreciated! We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has done business with us thus far, and we look forward to working with more of you in the future. This can all be accomplished with a regular old hammer and screwdriver, being hands down the most affordable way to build up your own cigar box guitar. As we only deal with larger size cigar boxes that fit a minimum of 50 cigars (and not the smaller 25-cigar size you often see elsewhere in the cigar box guitar market), our CBGs are guaranteed to have a warm, full-bodied acoustic sound that is pleasing to the ear. However, as all our cigar box guitars are fitted with controllable preamps, they can be plugged in and played as electric guitars as well. In a clever twist to the design that we have not seen used elsewhere (yet!), we fit the control panel discretely “hidden” to the rear of the cigar box guitar. This has the dual benefit of keeping the aesthetics clean from the front of the instrument as it is viewed by others or when displayed on the wall, while having the control system easily accessible to the player for adjustment.

Build a fully playable, Depression Era cigar box guitarusing our modern parts and fully detailed directions. Thank you to Chris from CMR Woodworks for this great demo video featuring our Cigar Box Guitar Kit.We’ve also included many options in the drop-down menu above where you can add frets, electronics, guitar slides and more. The original and best! That's no empty boast - I've pioneered the making of cigar box guitars in the UK. I have made and sold over 2000 of them, and have been featured in the UK music press, and on UK & European TV & radio. I’d also recommend that when you’re building, you sand down the fretboard really well to keep it from scratching your fingers. In “raw form” the fretboards of these kits get pretty rough on your fingers.