Welcome to Birdwood Guitars
Thank you for visiting us at Birdwood Guitars.
We have been building cigar box guitars since 2012 and it has certainly been a crazy ride! We have built and sold over two-thousand CBGs in that time and developed a reputation for excellent service and fantastic products.
We are a proudly Australian based business but are always happy when we receive an order from elsewhere on our beautiful blue planet. We have sold our CBGs all over the world, to countries as far away as Norway, The UK, The USA, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand, Indonesia and South Africa.
Be sure to check out our made-to-order STAGE SERIES guitars. These instruments take the humble cigar box guitar up to the next level as a modern, high powered, quality instrument fit for bedroom rocking or playing in front of a paying audience.
Adam Harrison.
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CBGS ✳︎ Foot Stompers ✳︎ FX Pedals ✳︎
Steve Arvey's Killer Strings are the perfect choice for a cigar box guitar player who wants to add some serious edge to their sound. With a heavy gauge and nickel wound construction, these strings are built to deliver powerful, grungy tones. The strings are designed to provide you with plenty of low-end punch and sustain. Plus, these strings are designed to stay in tune no matter how hard you play, so you can focus on your music instead of worrying about your tuning.
Our MTO Fretted Electric STAGE SERIES CBGs are built using handmade, reinforced boxes for rugged durability and improved acoustic resonance.
We use modern, quality components such as fixed, adjustable bridges, closed machine heads, high powered humbucker pickups, alpha pots and jacks and hardwood or bone nuts. Each instrument is finished with hand applied dyes and water based lacquers. Every Stage Series electric guitar is handmade specifically for you and we are happy to offer a great range of options, including 3 or 4 string, left or right handed as well as hardware colour options.
There will always be small variations from build to build depending on hardware availability and the natural grains and colours of timbers chosen.
Handmade body
Hand stained and lightly weathered body
oak neck
reclaimed contrast fretboard
medium frets
quality tuners
offset fret dot markers
humbucker pickup
volume and tone control
fixed and compensated bridge
box corners
quality hardware and components
MADE TO ORDER guitars have an approximate 4 week build time due to demand and the handmade nature of the build.
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This awesome electric guitar is based on a 1982ish Ibanez guitar that I had in the old Katoomba store a few years ago. It’s a full sized instrument and I had a 25.5 inch scale length similar to a strat.
Playability is awesome due to the low action which means no sore fingers and while it’s comfortable to play finger style, it’s also great for slide.
Powered by a wax potted, full sized humbucker matched to a volume and tone control.
Your guitar
Full sized body made using plantation timber
Light relic finish
Oak neck (reclaimed)
Walnut fretboard
Humbucker pickup
Volume and tone
Quality hardware
Closed tuners on reversed headstock
Excellent balance
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The ‘67’ Fuzz is based on the classic Colorsound One Knob Fuzz.
This two transistor fuzz pedal uses a circuit similar to the Fuzz Face where it uses a feedback loop to create a cascading gain stage. I am using high output 2N5088 transistors and modern components in this design.
The one knob is so simple. All you need to do is set the pedal volume at the level you like and rock out! Easy!
All Retro Electric effect pedals are handmade including point to point wiring, handstamped enclosures and quality hardware.
Your pedal
heavy duty aluminium enclosure
Alpha/vimex potentiometers
(V)olume control adjusts the volume level of the effect.
(F)uzz controls the level of fuzz
Modern through hole components for reliability
Quality hardware
9V mains power only. Negative centre pin (not supplied) The use of an isolated power supply is strongly suggested.
due to the handmade nature of our pedals there can be some slight variations from pedal to pedal depending on parts availability.