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Anyone make their own picks?

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Goin to Burn my Bridges Down

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Waiting For The Federals on Pineapple Glace Mandolin

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Cigar Art Wickedbucker Flat-Mount Pickups - featuring Beautiful Vintage Designs

Cigar Art Wickedbucker Flat-Mount Pickups - featuring Beautiful Vintage Designs

CLASSIC CIGAR LABELS PRINTED ON OUR FAMOUS WICKEDBUCKERS.

Get fantastic tone and gorgeous looks without hacking into the body of your cigar box guitar!  These pickups are top-mounted, ..

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Bento Box D.I.Y Ukulele Kit

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Homemade Instrument Fretting Handbook by Ben "Gitty" Baker - Complete Cigar Box Guitar Fretting How-to Guide

Homemade Instrument Fretting Handbook by Ben "Gitty" Baker - Complete Cigar Box Guitar Fretting How-to Guide

In this 159-page book, Ben "Gitty" Baker teaches his methods for installing frets on cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments. Over the past 10 years thousands of necks, fretboards and instruments have been fretted in the C. B. Gitty workshop, and Ben dra..

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