OK, I lied.  There is no movie.  

I know that we are about the building of these instruments but we are all also keeping an eye out for cigar shops.  I've got 6 shops that I routinely check and one that I went to once and never will again.  

One store just gives them away, one will save boxes for me, one thinks their boxes are are the only ones in town and the others are reasonable with what they charge.  Lots of times I go into a cigar shop and there is nothing there I'm…

After selling my first instrument I earmarked that money for various things to offset the cost of building my instruments.  I bought tuners, pickups, and tools and the biggest purchase I made was for more C clamps.  

I had bought some really good quartersawn red oak and it had just been sitting there leaning up against the wall and I finally ripped it and made neck blanks out of it.  I had some slab cut maple that I ripped and laminated to orient the grain on the quarter and placed a…