Hello all, so glad I found CBN, very informative and inspiring site.

Back in September I was shopping on Ebay, for what I don't remember, but saw a cigar box guitar for $250. I thought "wow, that's cool!" and after hemming and hawing over it for about 30 seconds I bought it. Yeah, I've been told I can be impulsive.

Well, when it arrived, I was pretty disappointed. It wasn't nearly as pretty or well built as the pictures made it look. I mean in the pics it looked like something Blind Willy would play, but when I got it it looked like Blind Willy had built it... during a hurricane.  lol

Anyway, I thought "well I could have done better than that and a whole lot cheaper". Yes, my impulsive streak is constantly at odds with my tightwad nature. I'm complex like that. So I went to the local antique store to find a box, there were none to be had, but I did find a Kodak 35mm movie reel can. Yup... with the help of the wealth of info on Cigar Box Nation, I put a neck and strings on it and it turned out pretty good.

Next was a license plate and now I'm hooked... I've got two more guitars in the works (i.e. parts scattered across the kitchen table) and about 8 million ideas floating around in my head about future builds. 

I'm a CNC machine service technician and spend most of time out of town so only have the weekends to do any guitar building (which, if my wife reads this, is far less important than her honey-do list). On the bright side I have evenings in the hotel to try to actually learn to play what I build.

Yeah, so anyway, now that I've introduced myself, I hope I can count on you folks as expert witnesses to testify on my behalf when this terrible affliction inevitably leads to my divorce. 

Just kidding!

(in case my wife's lawyer is reading this)

 :D