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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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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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Van Damme shielded hook-up wire, 1 metre

Van Damme shielded hook-up wire, 1 metre

£2.50

Ideal for making the connection between volume and/or tone controls and the 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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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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Equipment wire - 1 metre black & 1 metre red

Equipment wire - 1 metre black & 1 metre red

£1.00

Handy wire for a range of wiring jobs, pickups, pots, jack sockets and earthing the strings. We supply 1 metre of black and 1 metre of red in this pack. More than enough for multiple guitar builds.  7/0.2mm, 7 strand flexible core, 1.2mm approx outside diameter.


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Compack Singlecoil Pickup ideal for Cigar Box Guitars

Compact Singlecoil Pickup

£8.50

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 simple 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 parts 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...


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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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3 String Guitar Kit - Humbucker - Bronze hardware.

3 String Guitar Kit - Humbucker - Bronze 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...


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Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension "Old Time" CGC (Nickel)

Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension "Old Time" CGC (Nickel)

£4.95

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 fretted playing, for the best of both worlds. These are lighter than our regular sets, suitable for a higher tuning, C G C for a more treble biased tone. Top quality UK made ...


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Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension GDG (Phosphor Bronze)

Zilpha Strings - Balanced Tension GDG (Phosphor Bronze)

£5.50

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