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Parts and kits
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR CIGAR BOX GUITAR.
Pickups, machineheads, strings, boxes, fretboards,necks, fretwire, electrical parts,bridges...pretty much all you need, down to the last nut and bolt.
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Chickenbone john...the original and best
No gimmicks, just honest workmanship to make the best instruments that we can
Featured

ChickenboneJohn "ChickenboneJohn" CD
£10.00
Studio album (featuring Alan Nicholls on Drums and John Roy Potter on Bass). Track listings - Shotgun Blues Stones in My Passway You Gotta Move Hill Stomp Texas Tea Party Jitterbug Swing St James Infirmary Jesus Gonna Be Here Ready for My Starry Crown It's All Over Now Way Down In The Hole Crossroads Champagne And Reefer Werewolves of London

3 String Guitar Kit - Humbucker - Chrome hardware.
£93.00
Everything you need to make your own 3 string cigar box guitar. All you need to add is some wood glue and materials for putting a finish on the neck and box. The kit comes with a a handsomely-sized plain birch ply wood box and gives a great acoustic volume - they turn out pretty loud! It's an ideal starting point for adding your own decoration...

Make and Play workshop, Smethwick, Saturday 17th January 2026
£95.00
Learn how to make a simple fretless 3 string guitar...and learn how to play with The Godfather Of The Cigar Box Guitar! All materials, parts, tools and tuition included. no previous woodworking or musical experience needed - it really is that simple. In just one day we will show you how take a stick and a box and turn it into a playable musical ...

3 String Guitar Kit - Easy Build "Cortes"
£55.75
Using a genuine "Cortes" all wood cigar box, we've designed this kit to be quick and easy to put together with a minimum of tools. All the hard work is done for you - the piezo pickup is already pre-soldered, and comes complete with step-by-step illustrated instructions. This is a short scale guitar (22 3/4")so it's nice and easy play. Everythi...

ChickenboneJohn Tee Shirt - Black
£15.00
Heavyweight Gildan 100% cotton tee shirt, durable screen printed logo. Proudly designed and printed in the UK. Design by Hunt Emerson, renowned British comic book artist (his work has appeared in The Beano & Fortean Times).

Sancho Panza - Humbucker - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar
£490.00
A beautiful traditional style paper covered "Sancho Panza" cigar box with f-sound holes, matching bronze hardware and wrist guard. The combination of the matching wood types and tones with the hardware and box design have made a wonderful looking and playing guitar. Laminated poplar and walnut through neck with a laminated heal reinforcement, w...
Fret scale template

Fret scale template
£19.75
Heavy duty 2mm stainless steel templates, each with 2 popular scale lengths. 24 frets plus zero fret (2 full octaves). Guitar: 25 1/2 inch (Fender) and 24 3/4 inch (Gibson) Bass: 30 inch and 34 inch Ukulele/mandolin: 13 3/4 inch (soprano uke/ mandolin) and 15 inch (concert uke) Other manufacturers give you one of the popular scales and then anot...
Fret Rocker

Fret Rocker
£8.95
An essential tool if you are making a fretted guitar. Also great for trouble-shooting guitars with fret buzzes. Simply place the rocker over three frets, and it's really easy to check to see if you've got a high fret that can be the cause of a nasty rattle or buzz. The length of the sides makes it easy to check all of the frets right the way up ...

Partagas humbucker 3 string cigr box guitar
£392.00
Handsome colorful "Partagas" cigar box with traditional f-foles and humbucker pickup. Matching decorated headstock for a little bit of added "bling". Beechwood through neck and backstrap reinforcement, oak fretboard, Van Gent super-jumbo frets with black face dots and side position dot markers with a machinescrew nut. Our guitar necks are fully...
Laminated Neck Blank

Laminated Neck Blank
£22.50
If you are looking for something extra special for your cigar box guitar build, these laminated neck blanks are a great starting point. Multi-lamination ensures super strength and stability, and looks great too. These are oversize blanks so there is plenty of "meat" to shape a headstock, carve to profile and also leave a good thickness inside t...

3-way pickup selector switch
£5.75
Very nice quality 3 way toggle switch, Les Paul style, chrome plated with black tip. These are much better than the usual sort of economy switches - solid one piece cast frame, earth tag with riveted-in eyelet for easier soldering, nicely machined thread with knurled locking ring.

Punch 4 string cigar box tenor banjo
£350.00
Tenor banjo with old stock mahogany neck on Punch cigar box. 20 7/8 inch scale length. 30mm wide neck at the nut, 22.5mm string spacing at the nut, 35mm string spacing at the bridge. Real bone nut, nice quality sealed back machineheads. Bolt on neck. The body is braced with lightweight drilled-out "stringers" connecting the heel and tail bloc...











