Hello everybody! I'm not good at talking about myself, but here goes...

 Not sure if this is the place for this, but...
 First of all, I'd like to thank all of you for your contributions to this place.
 I am an old medically retired fellow that needed a hobby, so here I am, and I am having the time of my life! I just did something that I swore I'd never do again, but this place is irresistable now, so I joined. I initially found info from videos made by Del Puckett, (Shoutout!), the first and definitely not the last video builder that I found, then came videos from Glenn Watt and Shane Speal. If it weren't for these three guys, (I did more research and found this place), I would probably be doing something a lot less rewarding. THANK YOU guys!

 I have had an aversion to social media. (No facebook, no twitter, etc.), but  then I found this place. I've snuck around these pages for a couple of years and, thanks to all you kind folks as well, I have built around 15 cbgs, including one for destructive testing. (I always have to know the limits of things... and I like to break things sometimes) I have been spending the bulk of my free time lately, researching pickups and electronics. Been making crude pickups in many configurations and types of materials for about a year now. Half my cbgs have them in them now. I bought a humbucker off Craigslist for $5 about a year ago and it still doesn't have a home. I am having too much fun with these homespun scatterwounds. I built a crude winder from a manual drill. Neodimium buttons on each pole or computer magnets draped across them, they aren't very loud, (livingroom loud), but we like the sound. You can get a lot more volume with a boost, or buffer of some sort.
My wife and I have Schecters, but they never get played any more. Next up? Been researching amps building. I am wanting to try my hand at building them pretty soon. Then dulcimers, fifes, drums...

Thanks again!
Ray