Welcome to Birdwood Guitars
Thank you for visiting Birdwood Guitars. We are builders of traditional and new-age, 3 and 4 string cigar box guitars. We proudly use reclaimed and ethically sourced plantation timbers to craft our instruments.
We offer a great variety of cigar box guitars. Our models include:
Electric Fretted CBGs
Fretless electric CBGs
Fretted electro/acoustic CBGs
Fretless electro/acoustic CBGs
We also offer a great range of products including guitar effect pedals and KILLER STRINGS.
All guitars and accessories are handmade in Hazelbrook, NSW, Australia.
We offer great shipping rates and post all around the world.
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Built to LAST!
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Built to BLAST!
✳︎ Built to LAST! ✳︎ Built to BLAST!
Our electric, fretted cigar box guitar series has proved to be so popular that we recently sold out! This beautiful Macanudo CBG is the first of the latest batch to leave the work bench.
Your Guitar
Genuine Macanudo cigar box body
Red oak neck (reclaimed)
White oak fretboard
Screw fret position markers
Hardwood nut
Hardwood bridge
Chrome machine heads
Hidden magnetic pickup
Volume control
Chrome box corners
Quality electronics
This is just a small selection of the instruments we have to offer. We offer a great range of instruments tailored to budget and to playing needs. Fretless and fretted instruments can all be played comfortably with a slide.
What a killer traditional cigar box guitar this is!! It’s a short scale 21inch cigar box guitar loaded with an American made Gittybucker flat pickup. This is the perfect guitar to get if you want to play slide guitar. It’ll handle anything from blues all the way up to heavy metal!
YOUR GUITAR
• genuine Plasencia cigar box
• reclaimed timber neck
• reclaimed timber fingerboard with fine dot markers
• Gittybucker pickup (USA)
• volume control
• open tuners
• Hardwood nut and floating bridge
• strap button on rear bout
READY TO SHIP.
This might be a small pedal, but the tone is massive.
The FUZZ 149 is actually a fuzztortion pedal. Super high gain via a single silicon transistor with diode clipping. The pedal is housed in a small enclosure to make it very pedal board friendly. It's not subtle and likes to be played flat out but be careful the single volume knob really packs a punch.
the FUZZ 149 is powered via 9V negative centre pin mains power only. Not supplied.
We use industry standard through hole components and make each pedal totally by hand on vero board. Absolute analog all the way.
Your pedal is true bypass as well
Features
sturdy aluminum enclosure
True bypass foot switch
Alpha potentiometer
quality vintage style jacks
all new components for trouble free operation
9V mains power only (Negative centre pin) - adapler not inc
single volume knob
Every pedal is individually stamped so there will always be small variations in the art work or knobs depending on availability
Our Rolling Thunder, Fretless Electric Series have always been great sellers. Using a fretless guitar makes you a better slide player because there are no frets. Tuning your guitar to an open tuning such as open E EBe or open G GDg will put you into blues and rock and roll heaven. Simply put a slide on your finger and off you go.
Your guitar
Genuine cedar, Partagas cigar box body
Oak neck
Rough-cut walnut fingerboard
Dot markers at 3,5,7,9.12,15,17 fret markings
Handmade ‘Fear no Beard’ P90 pickup (USA)
Chrome hard tail bridge
Volume control
Strap buttons
Chrome ‘Tombstone’ machine heads
Tuned to open G with KILLER STRINGS.
Ready to ship
Birdwood Effect Pedals
Modern mojo!
Vintage vibe!
Our effect pedals were incredibly popular in the old Katoomba store. Every pedal that we make is patiently wired and created by hand, one at a time. We use quality hardware and through hole components to create modern effects inspired by those now hard to find effects of the 1960s and 70s.
Birdwood Guitars is the official Australian distributor for Steve Arvey’s KILLER STRINGS. Buy your strings here.
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