Hi everyone! I stumbled across this site a few times searching for answers on how to convert a transistor radio into a guitar amplifier. My lifelong dream was always to do something beautiful with music. I wanted to be a luthier when I was a bit younger, and I still have that yearning to craft something usable with my hands. I never knew of a cigar box guitar until about a month ago. Well, the idea of building one has been floating around in my mind ever since. Today I just listened to Purgatory Hill for the first time, and a blues album I found on here. Spectacular music comes from these instruments... I have been through so many different guitars in such a short time. I have had about 30 or more in my life, and now have 3. Since I was 11 I have played guitar, I am 31 now... I feel like if I make this cigar box guitar I will feel a sense of accomplishment, even if my mom thinks it's silly, that music and I will bond again, and I can find solace and ease once more in the notes like a shade tree in the south. I have a box recently purchased for $5. I found a piece of oak barn wood. I don't have much money, but this isn't about glamour, this seems to be a down to the nuts and bolts of what music was supposed to be about, the heart of the music, the emotion...