Build your own resonator guitar for $ hundreds less than any dobro on the market.  The Hubcap Howler isn't just a fun kit... it's a serious deep-blues guitar. Assembly time: just 3-4 hours, not including glue drying time.

• Traditional cigar box guitar style: this listing is for the 4 string version with a 23" scale (which means no truss rod needed).
• Neck comes fully fretted.
• No advanced woodworking is required (no sawing, routing, etc) - just some basic clamping, light drilling and screw insertion
• Natural white birch wood body is perfect for custom artwork, stain, woodburning or paint.
• Can be built right or left handed!
• INCLUDED FREE - Ben Gitty's Essential Chords Posters (3-string or 4-string version, depending on which kit you order).

Designed and with most of the parts made right here at the C. B. Gitty workshops in Gonic, New Hampshire, this amazing-sounding guitar can be built at your dining room table with just a few basic tools.

This  kit comes with a set of strings meant for tuning to Open G "GDGB" (or 3-string GDG), which have become the de facto tuning standards for 4-string and 3-string cigar box guitars. For the 3-string version, you can re-string it with a set of High Open G strings for an even more old-timey banjo-like sound. This kit also comes with a full fretboard already attached to the neck, making assembly easy. The detailed how-to guide not only shows you how to assemble the kit, but also includes some basic how-to-play information as well, to help get you picking once the build is done.

Here is a testimonial from customer Ron H: "Got my Tenor kit Thursday. I am very happy with it. It sounds great. Took your advice and am approaching it like a while new instrument. I've been playing in a form of open G (DGBD) but this is better. Especially the chord forms. I am very happy with the four string songbook. Your material is great. Thanks to you I now am understanding how to move from single string melody playing to choral melody playing. I've needed this info for a long time. THANK YOU."