C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply

C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply offers an ever-growing array of parts and accessories related to building, repairing and playing a wide range of musical instruments. Whether your interest is in standard guitars, banjos, cigar box guitars, various other stringed instruments, percussion instruments or something else, we likely have something to help.

See below for a list of our current product categories. You can click on any of the links to be taken directly to a corresponding page in our store:

• Fret Wire Sets - a wide range of fret wire styles and sizes, from the smallest/narrowest varieties for mandolin and ukulele up to the widest/highest jumbo sizes for electric bass. We carry 18% Nickel-Silver, Gold EVO and Stainless Steel fret wires in a range of sizes.
• Bulk Fret Wire- we offer some of our most popular fret wire sizes in bulk one-pound lots, a very cost-effective option for more prolific builders or repair-people.
• Tuners/Machine Heads- Economy open-gear tuners, golden tuners, zither pins and more… we are in the process of adding more tuner styles to our lineup to meet your building and repair needs.
• Guitar Electronics- a variety of sizes and styles of piezo elements, including both pre-wired and unwired disks. We also carry both economy and premium mono jacks, and will soon be adding economy magnetic pickups, potentiometers and capacitors, and more!
• Cigar Box Guitar String Sets- we have put together a variety of string sets specific to cigar box guitars, both 3 and 4 strings, acoustic and electric. No more guessing what strings you need or having several strings left over from a 6-string pack.
• Guitar Accessories: slides, digital tuners & more - we offer several variety of slides for playing slide-style guitar, as well as a great digital chromatic tuner at an awesome price. In the near future we will also offer other accessories such as capos, straps, picks and more!
• Decorative Hardware- an ever-growing range of decorative hardware accents can be found in our store. From standard brass grommets to jumbo grommets, brass trunk and box corners to hinges and latches, rusted tin accents and more!
• Craft Parts & Tins- our specialty tins have a wide range of potential uses for the handmade instrument builder… their most popular use is as resonators on cigar box guitars and one-string diddley bows!
• MojoBone Hand-crafted Slides- these slides are handcrafted by Randy Bretz of the MojoBone Works out of cured beef bones and a variety of exotic hardwoods. This half-and-half style provides two different playing materials in the same slide, which allows the savvy player to coax subtly different tones from their instrument. Plus, they are beautiful, distinctive and truly UNIQUE accessories that any slide player would be proud to show off!
• Educational Media – Currently we are offering our own C. B. Gitty Fretting Guide, a great getting started how-to for the would-be fretter.

We are dedicated to aggressively expanding our product line as quickly as we are able, so be sure to check back often to see all of the new products we have added. Thank you!

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