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Mini Humbucker Pickup - aged brass with mounting ring.

Mini Humbucker Pickup - aged brass with mounting ring.

£17.95

Hand-aged plain brass cover minihumbucker. Supplied with aged steel mounting ring, complete with height adjustment screws, springs and fixing screws. 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 price and more power! These p...


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Yellow poplar neck blank, 36 x 24 x 900mm, ideal for 3 string cigar box guitars.
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Yellow poplar neck blank, 36 x 24 x 900mm, ideal for 3 string cigar box guitars.

Neck blank - Poplar

£7.50

Easy to work, Poplar is an ideal wood for beginners to try their hand at making a cigar box guitar neck. Cuts, shapes and sands easily. Also known as tulipwood or yellow poplar 36 x 24 x 900mm - ideal for 3 string guitars.


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Cherry wood neck blank, 42 x 22 x 900mm, ideal for 4 and 3 string cigar box guitars.
Neck blank - Cherry
From £13.75
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Cherry wood neck blank, 42 x 22 x 900mm, ideal for 4 and 3 string cigar box guitars.

Neck blank - Cherry

£13.75

Easy to work, stable and close grained, cherry is a great wood for making a cigar box guitar necks. It is a pleasure to work, as it cuts, carves, shapes and sands well. It also takes a finish beautifully - my favorite wood for necks. Available for 4 and 3 string guitars. 3 string - 36 x 22 x 900mm 4 string - 42 x 22 x 900mm


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Fretwire by Van Gent - Light, 12% Nickel Silver, measurement drawing.

Fretwire, Van Gent - Light, 12% Nickel Silver

£3.45

Great quality European fretwire, 12% nickel silver. Made by Van Gent. Available in 900mm lengths cut from the roll (supplied in 3x300mm lengths) 1.6mm wide, 0.7mm tall. Ideal for cigar box guitars, ukes, banjos and mandolins. A 900 length will easily do a full cigar box guitar neck, provided you cut each fret to length accurately. I'm very pleas...


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Chickenhead control knobs in black, pair.

Chickenhead control knobs - Black (pair)

£3.95

Traditional style chickenhead knobs in black, nice quality. Brass insert with grub screw fixing - requires small straight bladed screwdriver (not supplied)  Sold as a pair. 


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Van Damme shielded hook-up wire, 1 metre

Van Damme shielded hook-up wire, 1 metre

£2.50

Ideal for making the connection between controls and jack socket. This cable is twin conductor plus shield to give you the best level of shielding to prevent annoying hums and buzzes due to electrical interference. Supplied in a 1 metre length, which is enough to wire 4 typical cigar box guitars.


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Equipment wire, 1 metre black, 1 metre red

Equipment wire, 1 metre black, 1 metre red

£1.00

Handy wire for wiring pickups, we supply 1 metre of black and 1 metre of red in this pack. 7/0.2mm, 7 strand flexible core, 1.2mm approx outside diameter. Perfect for wiring pickups, pots together and earthing the strings.


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Compack Singlecoil Pickup ideal for Cigar Box Guitars
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Compack Singlecoil Pickup ideal for Cigar Box Guitars

Compact Singlecoil Pickup

£7.50

Compact single coil pickup for cigar box guitar. Plain "pole-less" black cover. 5.2 K Ohm resistance. Generous 250mm long wires for simple hook-up to jack or controls. These pickups have a nice rounded warm response, ideal for 3 or 4 string guitars. Supplied with mounting screws. The mounting lugs can be easily cut to allow them to be screwed to...


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Artec Mini Humbucker "toaster" Pickup

Artec Mini Humbucker "toaster" Pickup

£17.75

Minihumbucker with toaster style cover (oval or plain slots) . Supplied with black plastic pickup mount ring,  height adjustment screws and springs. 7.9K Ohm resistance, 300mm long hook-up wire. Pickup size 68 x 28. 5 conductor wiring (4 plus shield)- can be wired as a conventional humbucker, or you can use a micro toggle switch for humbucker/si...


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Cigar Box Guitar Hardware Pack - Piezo pickup 'Workshop' pack

"Kit Bag" Cigar box guitar hardware: piezo "WORKSHOP" pack

£18.15

Everything you need to make a cigar box guitar - just add a stick and a box!! All in one handy pack so you don't need to search high and low for or buy a whole box of screws just to get the bits you need. Ideal for making your first fretless piezo equipped cigar box guitar. Comes with our tried and tested instructions that we use at our "Make an...


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Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension "High Lonesome" EBE (Nickel)

Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension "High Lonesome" EBE (Nickel)

£4.75

Through careful experimentation and calculation we have developed these balanced tension string sets. Even tension from low to high makes these ultra-playable for slide and for fretted playing for the best of both worlds. These are lighter than our regular sets, suitable for a higher tuning, E B E for a more cutting lead tone. Top quality UK mad...


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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 decorations, painting or staining and distressing to own own taste to make something totally unique.  The kit is also available with a choice of beautiful repro cigar box labels and edgings for you to apply yourself during the build.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything else is included, and you only need a few basic tools to make your very own instrument. Comes with clear and simple step by step illustrated instructions -  - we cross reference these with our comprehensive series of YouTube videos on how to build a cigar box guitar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes with a slotted fretboard, fretwire and a minihumbucker electric pickup. Included in the kit are: beech or sapele  (subject to availability) neck blank and backstrap  - the headstock is already shaped to take the tuners. Walnut \/ sapele  ?Blsckwood tek (subject to availability) fingerboard, already pre-slotted. Fretwire (high quality Van Gent, made in the EU) Internal fixing blocks. Quality  sealed aged bronze finish machineheads, bushings  and screws. Cherrywood or maple floating bridge with fretwire saddle. Machine screw nut. Brass string ferrules. Screws for neck fixing and string guide. Aged bronze minihumbucker electric pickup,  volume and tone pots,  tone capacitor, hook-up and earth wires.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Chickenhead control knobs. 1\/4\" Neutrik jack socket. Set of 3 custom gauge balanced tension d\"Addario or Zilpha (subject to availability) nickelwound strings. 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Also, the components and material are EXACTLY the same as we use in our entry level 3 string guitars - no compromises, no short cuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfWvHHxo3Ho\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}
Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box.

Humbucker 3 String Guitar Kit - Bronze hardware. Plain Box and repro cigar box.

£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...


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