DO DO tha DO, Do DO tha DO, tha tha. Welcome to the Twilight Zone, do not attempt to adjust your tone knob or volume, we are in total control.

I cannot play anything on any guitar, except thanks to Night Owl can now muddle my way through "Amazing Grace" on a 3-string in GDG tuning. Oh and can do the first opening licks of "Bad to the Bone" - thanks! That's a lot more than I could do two months ago!

I have now officially built three guitars - amazing. Who'd a thunk? I am totally flabbergassed. Took a web cam picture of them together, you can tell the progression. The first one is really rough. The second more refined, but far from looking sophisticated. The third more primative but also more sophisticared. The first two were three string and the fourth a four string inspired by the Purgatory Hill Harp.

Do you know what makes something a harp? It is a stringed instrument where at least one unfretted string has no fret board behind it. Mine cannot be called a harp, all strings are over a fret board though the fret board is not fretted - yet. The Purgatory Hill Harp is built on Round Dowells and Two strings are positioned so the dowell is not behind them. Wondered why they called it a harp - now I know.

OMG, wierd facts seem to be creeping into my mind. It is close to Halloween. Other wierd things are happening. I was listening to the videos on CBN in my office on break, a co-worker sits down and ask me to build him a CBG. I showed him a blurry web cam photo of the four stringer, told him it was tuned at this moment to EEBE. He asked what tunings could he use. I said a Tenor Guitar, and other tunings, even a banjo I guess. He said, "I'm gonn'a have so much fun with my new guitar" so I guess the sale is pretty much a done deal! How is that possible? I am not a Luthier! I am not a good woodworker even! I cannot even play one of the contraptions I build. Has to be a spell on me!

I take breaks every day at work and leave the facility to drive to a turn around close by to just get some fresh air. Today a guy I had never seen there before gets out of his car, opens his hatch back, takes out his banjo, and starts playing. I just had to introduce myself and strike up a conversation. For 8 years of going to this place to get freshair, snow, rain, blazing heat, all sorts of weather, nothing like this has ever happened.

I work at a prison. Yep, a prison folks. Was thinking of screen printing some of my hand made boxes in the future. An inmate walks in and sees me looking at screen printing sites and informs me he does that on the street and takes me through the process step by step and totally educates me so if I go that way I will be totally ready.

My wife came home with mini Butterfingers [AND DID NOT WANT TO SAVE THEM for Halloween]! What kind of creepy stuff is in the air? We've been married 38 years and this has never - ever - happened, and especially since I hit the 220 lb mark! We all know Butterfingers are pure sugar rush and pounds.

I read to my wife the article in the book I got on famous CBGers. At the very back was an article on the guy who makes pickups by winding copper wire on bobbins with a sewing machine. Want to guess his name?

I have seen her wind bobbins, not recently, she seldom if ever sews anymore, but I have seen this in the last twenty years. Anyway, asked her if we owned a sewing machine that had a bobbing winder, she said in the basement by the clothes washer we has not one but two, and confirmed both had bobbin winders that worked on the top. However both had breaks I would have to remove - which was fine with her. What is going on? I have never seen her that agreeable, that cooperative, that informable! What have you done with my wife - and who is this woman in my house that looks and cooks like her?

Four weeks till "THE" election. I'll test out my theory to see if I've crossed over into another deminsion. Einstein said "insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result". Ergo keeping in the two party systen by voting for any republican or democrat - especially for president - is insanity. That is the standard, comformity, convention, the store bought sound if you will.We already know what that has been producing.

All agree the two party system no longer works. The only other party with a ghost of a chance is the Libertarians. I don't agree with them, but they are the only viable alternative to break the cycle - so by gum I'm gonna vote a streight Libeterian ticker - I'm refusing to be insane any longer! If they should win I'll know the cosmos has entered the Twilight Zone, or I've finally gone schizo for good! But this blog is not about politics - really it is not. Nor is it about weight, or domestic bliss.

You see all of this is about deciding to build a CBG and not just buy a regular old "store bought" six string standard guitar. You have to go against conventional wisdom, to understand things in a totally different way but in a much more rational and logical way.

They [the ones refusing to believe there are workable and viable alternatives] are only comfortable and can only understand or see the standard, that which comforms, that gets the same results. How many people [like the current owner of the Purgatory Hill] have I read about saying they went with the CBG because they had spent years looking for "that" sound and had modified their thousand $ guitar and just could not get it - till they thought "inside" the box, not inside the standard curves?

Once you step "inside the box" life changes, people around you change, the universe, the cosmos realigns in some unfathonable way - it is like you are finally properly aligned to finally receive blessings and fulfillment, and fate, providence, the spiritual world begins to make arrangement to fulfill your apparent destiny and bend others to be favorable to your predestined path.