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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on May 9, 2016 at 6:11am

Really fun to be dressed up in protective gear during the summer. Memphis area summers are quite hot with high humidity that makes it feel like 100 to 110 at times. Then find yourself in protective gear and inside a pipe welding for a couple hours with the sun beaming on the pipe. Yay! You start getting shocked from the current flowing through your sweat soaked gear and clothes, always a plus.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on May 8, 2016 at 10:44am

Ooh.. I would custom carve guitar parts. Tuning head replacements.. Nut bridge (might not be a good idea but cool as ice) glass fretboard (yummy)

Have you created anything?

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Permalink Reply by 3qt17g550yh6r on May 8, 2016 at 2:49pm

I am an Assitant manager for a big box store. I work 65-70 hours a week and in my spare time I make soap cutters for spare change. I have two cigar box guitars going right now for a first and second build. I will post pics when done. I got hold of a 1950's enamel hospital bed pan. A #10 can fits perfectly in the hole so I am building a resonator out of it. I am putting one of the Ecco euk devices on the underside of the can. I built a sound baffle into it and am planning on using both piezo (wired in sequence) and a pickup at the neck. 3 way switch. Anyway sometimes I get board at work and make up fund raising ideas. Check this one out.....yes this is me raising money for CMN

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Permalink Reply by Bristol Blue on May 8, 2016 at 4:06pm

Well done on the fund raising ! I think I would be dead after a week of those working hours !

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Permalink Reply by Kigar on May 8, 2016 at 4:08pm

I am an engineering manager in product development.  Have worked mostly with medical products and office furniture, lots of plastic parts and simple mechanisms.  The CBG is much more hands on and free from all the constraints, I try to have only a basic plan and let it evolve as I go.  I have resisted (so far) using the the cnc at work to make parts for instruments but confess I have used CAD to figure out some angles or a layout a couple times.

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Permalink Reply by jeff weins on May 9, 2016 at 10:11am

Spent most of my working life (23 years) as a mechanic in a factory (lettershop). In 2007 at the start of the recession, the plant shut down putting 200+ of us out of work. 52 and unemployed I got a job at the only place in town (rutland vt) I wanted to work at a small bakery. No more factory work for me, good pay good benefits but the factory floor was just sucking the life out of me. Now its average pay, no benefits (wife's job covers the medical) and I like what I'm doing. I make english muffins all night long.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Binns on May 9, 2016 at 3:22pm

I spend my days working as a graphic designer at a large format print shop. We do all sorts of cool stuff from vehicle wraps to custom builds like Plinko games. I use my design programs (Adobe Illustrator mostly) to plan out builds and make up templates. Pair that up with a vinyl cutter and a flat bed printer and I can make all sorts of cool junk to help me make guitars.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Hergert on May 9, 2016 at 6:39pm

Well, I'm kind of like Jack Ryan in the movies ("Hunt for Red October").  He's an analyst for the CIA.  I am a geodata analyst for the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs).  It's much more impressive if I try to tie myself to Jack Ryan.

I am diggin' building guits and doing Open Mic stuff. 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Hergert on May 11, 2016 at 9:32am

It's a good gig.  Creative and technical.  I have a few guitarists here so they like when I bring my projects in.

Good stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Perlic on May 11, 2016 at 5:57am

I spend my day producing, directing, editing and animating tv commercials.  My daughter asked me what I do all day and when I told her she responded with " Why, nobody likes to watch commercials!"  She is 5.  I would love to work on a CBG video project someday.  Anyone got any ideas that's different from what is already out there?

Shameless self promotion: https://youtu.be/ukXN2OGbgRQ

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on May 11, 2016 at 6:52am

Good video. Your comment made me think of Rodney Dangerfield, "I Tell Ya, I Get No Respect At All".

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Timson on May 11, 2016 at 10:18am

Biomedical equipment technician, I repair medical and laboratory equipment from IV pumps to MRI machines. The electronics knowledge helps a lot with building amps.

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