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Permalink Reply by Julz aka Varnum Slim on July 9, 2010 at 4:02pm

I bought some tuners when he had a sale. They were good stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Julz aka Varnum Slim on July 9, 2010 at 4:05pm

Radio Shack for piezos and electronics: http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=piezo&am...

I've been to Japan I can't remember Radio Shack there. Yes? No? Shinjuku has blocks and blocks of electronics stores there, right? What city are you in?

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Eric Marsalis on July 9, 2010 at 4:43pm

No, there are NO Radio Shacks here. There are very sad "home centers" though, but I can NEVER find anything that I am looking for. It is ALWAYS just a little bit short of what I want. I have never been to that part of Tokyo (Shinjuku) even as famous as it is. I don"t get up that way very often. I am in Kochi City on the island of Shikoku. I have been here since 2005.

Julz aka Varnum Slim said:

Radio Shack for piezos and electronics: http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=piezo&am...

I've been to Japan I can't remember Radio Shack there. Yes? No? Shinjuku has blocks and blocks of electronics stores there, right? What city are you in?

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on July 10, 2010 at 1:44am

I thought Japan had nothing for cbg's as well; at first!
Last week I bought enough rosewood, pau rosa, hard maple and ash for four necks (less than sixty dollars), i bought mono quarter inch jacks, tune and volume pots for those guitars (less than twenty dollars), i found an antique cigar box, which I haven't bought yet, and i even found tuners (a set of six for less than ten dollars).
it's true there's no radio shack but you can find what you're looking for if you know what to ask.
and to be fair, i visited tokyo when i got most of this stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on July 10, 2010 at 1:46am

and go to akihabara station.

Douglas Eric Marsalis said:

No, there are NO Radio Shacks here. There are very sad "home centers" though, but I can NEVER find anything that I am looking for. It is ALWAYS just a little bit short of what I want. I have never been to that part of Tokyo (Shinjuku) even as famous as it is. I don"t get up that way very often. I am in Kochi City on the island of Shikoku. I have been here since 2005.

Julz aka Varnum Slim said:

Radio Shack for piezos and electronics: http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=piezo&am...

I've been to Japan I can't remember Radio Shack there. Yes? No? Shinjuku has blocks and blocks of electronics stores there, right? What city are you in?

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Permalink Reply by Dave Onastik on July 10, 2010 at 4:19am

Two thumbs up for Gitty!

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Eric Marsalis on July 10, 2010 at 2:46pm

Sweet. I appreciate it. Where exactly are you? Do you ever come down to Shikoku? If so, you need to look me up. Do you have a SKYPE account? Maybe we could chat sometime, or trade more ideas. Later.

Douglas

Jonathan said:

and go to akihabara station.

Douglas Eric Marsalis said:

No, there are NO Radio Shacks here. There are very sad "home centers" though, but I can NEVER find anything that I am looking for. It is ALWAYS just a little bit short of what I want. I have never been to that part of Tokyo (Shinjuku) even as famous as it is. I don"t get up that way very often. I am in Kochi City on the island of Shikoku. I have been here since 2005.

Julz aka Varnum Slim said:

Radio Shack for piezos and electronics: http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=piezo&am...

I've been to Japan I can't remember Radio Shack there. Yes? No? Shinjuku has blocks and blocks of electronics stores there, right? What city are you in?

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Permalink Reply by NJJ on July 10, 2010 at 5:04pm

I just placed my first order on Thursday morning and it was in my mailbox on Saturday - good products and excellent service! Thanks Gitty!

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on March 21, 2011 at 12:32pm

altho this is an old old thread, i thought i'd bump it with a little story for you...

last month i was needing some tuners and fretwire, so I got on gitty's site and ordered 10 sets of the budget tuners and a pound of the regular wire.  The total came to about $170Au, remember I expect to pay a bit on postage, Im in Australia.  I didnt even need my credit card, cos the site remembered me from last time, super easy..

 

well a day or two later I was looking at my internety bank and there was a credit for nearly forty dollars from CBGitty..

immediately I thought oh bummer, hes out of the fretwire and im only getting tuners...   This was gonna be quite a problem, I had a couple necks sitting there waiting on the frets..  Well I checked my email and theres a note from Ben, hey Jef, I managed to save you quite a bit on shipping, cheers.. Ben....

 

imagine that!!  U know.. I had cheerfully paid the full amount the website had calculated and asked me for... I would never have known what he was actually charged...  How many online stores would you expect this kinda thing from ? Please buy from Gitty, especially if you're in the USA, its a no brainer..

 

edit... one more thing... I had the package, on the other side of the planet, in less than a week!!  I often wait 3 or 4 weeks for foreign packages...

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on March 21, 2011 at 3:15pm

I buy all my tuners and hardware from CBGitty.  His piezo rod pickups are top notch.

-Shane Speal

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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on March 21, 2011 at 3:55pm

E bay has lots of sellers with a zillion parts selling out of Hong Kong lots with free shipping, it is closer to you than to us. Now Cigar Boxes I did not see.

                                              Cheers Ron.

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Permalink Reply by Richard G Caudill on March 21, 2011 at 4:30pm

Just recieved my first shipment from him last friday ,, got fret wire ,, tuners ,, strings and piezo

And i got em QUICK    .. I in middle of a "music scene" and he will b my one stop shop from now on >   shipped it for 5.50

can t beat that with a ugly stick !!

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