Category: Sourcing Materials

Information on where to score the best stuff for building cigar box guitars and other homemade/handmade musical instruments.

Gitty's Guide To Junkin' And Pickin' For Cigar Box Guitar Building - Part 1 Gitty's Guide To Junkin' And Pickin' For Cigar Box Guitar Building - Part 2

Gitty’s Guide to Junkin’ and Pickin’ for Cigar Box Guitar Building – Part 1

This is Part 1 of a series of two articles, in which Ben “C. B. Gitty” Baker shares some of what he has learned about buying cool old vintage items (ie: junk) for making homemade instruments.

C. B. Gitty owner Ben Baker checking price tags carefully

I am pretty much a newcomer to junking, picking, thrifting, yardsale-ing and the like.

Though I grew up poor and most of my clothes and toys were secondhand, it is only since getting into making cigar box guitars and other handmade instruments that I have begun to appreciate the value of junk stores, thrift stores, yard sales and to a lesser extent antique stores. Continue reading “Gitty’s Guide to Junkin’ and Pickin’ for Cigar Box Guitar Building – Part 1”