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Permalink Reply by Dave Alexander on June 16, 2009 at 3:05pm

The cheapest and best souveneers you ever found I'll bet. You did well. My weakness is flea markets and garage sales. While the rest of the gang considers it relaxing too cook on the beach, I'd rather find treasure. Sounds like you did.


You know you've got it bad when you stare at a small pot on the stove and mumble..."wonder how that'd resonate."

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Permalink Reply by Anderson on July 7, 2009 at 3:49pm

I have it bad.

I was at a chain super-devil-store this afternoon with my Son and found myself in the plumbing section putting things on the shelves into boxes I haven't even built yet.

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Permalink Reply by Noisemaker59 on July 7, 2009 at 4:29pm

It's BAD & I just can't shake it....I too am on the hunt for objects for future builds! My wife & I just returned from a trip to Nashville/Memphis with a day-trip to Clarksdale Miss. I picked up some items from the iconic A Schwab general store on Beale St for a future build devoted to said street. Coolest find was a rusty raildroad spike found next to the abandoned railroad tracks that run through Clarksdale...that will be used as well!!! Damn this sickness...

I too was without CBG, guitar & internet for a WEEK.... luckily, the Gibson guitar factory was 2-blocks from our hotel. Took advantage of the store located there, playing a nice L0 to quench my appetite.

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Permalink Reply by Mortimer Snerd on July 7, 2009 at 5:04pm

I had it bad for about two months, but now I feel that I need to be more selective and get fussy on building instead of throwing things together. I want to make some quality guitars, I already can do good enough quality, but would like to slow down and make a few nice ones.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on July 8, 2009 at 3:27am

Will, I think I am settling down and decided I don't need every cigar box I see. I am spending less time looking for boxes and more time building. I went from 0 boxes to 40 in less than two months. Some I wasn't selective enough with and now I have boxes to just hold junk in. I'm a slow builder, so I've got the supplies to keep me occupied for some time.

The negative of this is I love the smell of the cigar boxes. Makes me want a cigar, I haven't smoked in many, many years. UNTIL recently. Been trying a few cigars that would have been in some of the boxes. That is a BAD hobby, one cigar costs a lot more than the empty box!

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Permalink Reply by bairfoot cajun on July 8, 2009 at 8:13am

i,m not sure how bad i got it but i got it bad enough to say that i will probably build cigar box guitars for the rest of my living years on this planet. maybe that is a good thing i,m not sure,but some folks will eventually benefit from my building experiences. i build with a lot of hand tools,and i am still in a research and development stage. i always try different things in my building experiences. being creative is something that was in my cards before i was born so this cigar box guitar building experience i have discovered gives me great satisfaction in the realm of being creative.there are unlimited amounts of design creativity,and that keeps me thinking of new and different builds all the time. i find myself like a lot of other folks here thinking[i wonder how that would work for this or that aspect of the cigar box guitar] and it leads me to try many different things but the best influence i can ever get is by looking at what other folks here at the cigar box nation is doing with their projects. it proves how smart average and above average and less than average thinkers can be and can learn from each other. it is good food for the mind and the spirit to be creative in building an instrument that you can produce music with.my wish is that all the folks here can accomplish what they set out to do when they start a cigar box guitar project,and if they stumble they can look to the cigar box nation for a helping hand to get their project finished and make music with it. so let it be written so let it be done.

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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on July 8, 2009 at 11:07am

bairfoot,

As a CBG builder, you will probably always be in the "research and development" stage. Most of us won't achieve "what we set out for", because what we set out for was just to get to the next hill top (first build, then build something that looks or plays sorta like X, the strike out on the next challenge. CBGing is truly a realm where, as the wise old man said, "the journey isthe destination." Finally, it really isn't the nation that will be the help, but certain generous souls who inhabit the nation.

Keep building and keep helping others... that's how the music goes "round and round."

the best,

Sam

bairfoot cajun said:

i,m not sure how bad i got it but i got it bad enough to say that i will probably build cigar box guitars for the rest of my living years on this planet. maybe that is a good thing i,m not sure,but some folks will eventually benefit from my building experiences. i build with a lot of hand tools,and i am still in a research and development stage. i always try different things in my building experiences. being creative is something that was in my cards before i was born so this cigar box guitar building experience i have discovered gives me great satisfaction in the realm of being creative.there are unlimited amounts of design creativity,and that keeps me thinking of new and different builds all the time. i find myself like a lot of other folks here thinking[i wonder how that would work for this or that aspect of the cigar box guitar] and it leads me to try many different things but the best influence i can ever get is by looking at what other folks here at the cigar box nation is doing with their projects. it proves how smart average and above average and less than average thinkers can be and can learn from each other. it is good food for the mind and the spirit to be creative in building an instrument that you can produce music with.my wish is that all the folks here can accomplish what they set out to do when they start a cigar box guitar project,and if they stumble they can look to the cigar box nation for a helping hand to get their project finished and make music with it. so let it be written so let it be done.

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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on July 8, 2009 at 11:08am

18 months, 130 builds, 400 boxes (in stock), and a still loving wife... blessing man I'd say... ehhh?

the best,

Sam

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kennedy on April 25, 2010 at 6:52am

Lets just say Ive been outta work for a month now... I spend more time researching the nation and other sites, rumaging through thrift stores and tabacco shops and even more time at my work bench than I have spent looking for a new job. But I need to do something quick, my savings is getting low....Hmm unless a start taking orders. Could this be my new career?

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on April 25, 2010 at 7:23am

I had to rearrange my home office, and I now have a stack of cigar and other boxes that goes almost to the ceiling! I did not realize how many I had stuck here and there! I also have other stuff in everywhere you can put stuff, necks, parts wood, hardware, speakers, electronics, tools. Just kills me to pass by a thrift shop, yard sale, roadside trash heap without stopping for a look! Hey, at least I'm not spending thousands of dollars on "real" guitars and amps! Oh yea, every corner in the house has a stack of instruments of some kind. Very patient wife!

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Call on April 25, 2010 at 8:29am

I got it something bad, in fact I think there should be a 12 step group for us. Not that I would ever go, but still. I too have to (kind of) hide my new box scores only because "I have not done anything with the other 15 I have yet". LOL All in good time my friends!!!!!!!! But she always finds 'em, and never the worse for doing so. In fact more thimes than not she thinks the new box is beautiful, but then she gets on me about doing something with it. This can not be forced. I will see a box everyday for a month and not come up with something for it, and then one day it hits me!!!!!!!!!

MAN I LOVE THIS HOBBY (if you want to call it that, I say its a life style)

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Permalink Reply by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 25, 2010 at 10:11am

Like heroin.

-WY

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