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Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box.
£88.00
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...
Celestial Ceramic Slides

Celestial Ceramic Slides
£20.00
NEW IN These beautiful handcrafted slides come in 2 sizes and various colours. Made by a fellow Cigar Box Guitar maker and player Dylan. They are wonderfully crafted to provide the ideal weight to give great a sound to your slide playing. The block colour slides maintain the smooth outside feel on the inside, however the marbled effect slides of...
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. 3 piece 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...

Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit. Plain Box and repro cigar box.
£88.00
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...

Mini Humbucker Pickup ANTIQUE BRONZE with mounting ring (Pre-wired available)
£16.95
Powerful minihumbucker. Supplied with matching steel mounting ring, complete with height adjustment screws, springs and fixing screws. Plain cover with antique bronze finish, 13.5K Ohm resistance...HOT HOT HOT!!! Pickup size 68 x 28, mounting ring 92 x 37mm overall, 220mm long hook-up wire. Custom made to our own specifications...new lower pric...

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-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.
Handmade Uber Doofer Leather Guitar Strap

Handmade Uber Doofer Leather Guitar Strap
£18.95
Simple leather strap custom made for cigar box guitars. We've had these specially made for cigar box guitar, as I've found most leather straps are too stiff and heavy to use comfortably with a cigar box guitar. These straps are strong, flexible and soft, exactly what you need for your cigar box guitar. 1250mm (50") long, 28mm (1 1/8") wide, thic...
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
£7.95
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 ...
VOX Pathfinder 10 amplifier

VOX Pathfinder 10 amplifier
£75.00
A great little mains powered amp, plenty loud enough for practice and for intimate gigs. The vintage looks are right in keeping with the cigar box guitar vibe. No nonsense controls and it's got plenty of poke. It's handily sized, but substantially built at 5kg weight. The eye-catching looks of these 10-watt combos are classic VOX and include bas...
Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware

Texas Lancero 6 string tele-style cigar box guitar, Bill Lawrence USA pickups, aged hardware
£565.00
6 String cigar box guitar, maple neck and fretboard, aged copper hardware. This guitar is built and set up to play easily - the action at the 12th fret is 1.5mm with d'Addario 10 gauge strings. Fitted with dual action trussrod. The maple neck and fretboard has been given an aged stain and has been hand finished in gunstock oil to a beautiful sat...
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