Instruments and components, Tonewood and electronics - at great prices and shipped to your door.
If you want a DIY cigar box guitar kit, or the wood to build a bespoke acoustic guitar, we have the best available.
We have the woods, pickups and electrics you need to start building beautiful instruments today.
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A great option to start building a cigar box guitar of your own.
Our kit comes with everything required to build an acoustic cigar box guitar, the neck is mahogany, the fretboard is oak, and the frets are brass. Our bodies are of hardwood, usually Sapele, really simple to build with substantial plywood inner box to hold everything together.
You will need a reasonable amount of finishing, a basic tool kit, and some quality wood glue.
If you would like any of the processes completed for you, from notching the head stock, installing the frets, to building the box, just call and we will give you costs for all options.
Equipment upgrades are also available, electronics from a piezo, to double humbuckers. Wood, anything you like including rosewood and Ziricote (these may not be in stock and will take approximately 1 week for delivery) and fretboards in your favourite woods. Again just call for prices
Customised goods may not be returned
Our aim is to encourage everyone, no matter what their ability or skill level, to try playing - or even better, building - their own instruments.
We will provide kits for raw beginners right up to experienced Luthiers, who will find individual pieces, and complete kits, to keep them busy.
We don’t claim to be the cheapest, but we always aim to stock quality products, and to offer a great service at the best price possible.
Adam
store owner
Our curated selection of tonewoods range from UK-grown Ash, to exotic Zebra wood.
We only buy our feedstock when we find the quality and price mix that will allow cost effective instrument building, but with a finish that is second to none.
Instrument kits are the Silver Cat speciality. We already supply cigar box guitar kits, with ukulele and guitar kits coming during 2021.
We supply a basic cigar box guitar kit for £45, right up to a classical guitar kit with Rosewood and Ebony for £450.
We also provide a unique “oh shoot” insurance. If you crack, or mangle in any way, a guitar or ukulele side while attempting to bend it, we will (on you sending us a picture of the deceased side) sell you a single replacement side - or a pair if they need to be matched - rather than having to buy a full set, AND at a reduced price ... we want our customers to succeed, not stop at the first obstacle!
Our cigar box guitar spares section has a growing selection of parts to build and upgrade your instruments. If it isn’t here, just ask, and we will find you a solution.