Forrest Johnson
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How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?
Through the book "Made By Hand: Finding Meaning in a Throw Away World"
How many instruments have you built so far?
20 or 30?
What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).
I love the challenge of reclaiming as much material as possible. I see my building as an ethical statement as well as something fun and artistic.

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How to make custom hardwood tuner buttons.

Posted on July 30, 2018 at 11:30am 7 Comments

I had trouble finding good instructions for how to make tuner buttons, so I put together my own how-to and thought folks here might find it useful. here is the link: How to make hardwood tuning buttons

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At 6:05pm on October 22, 2016, Hard luck chuck said…
Hi Forrest - I just discovered you're in OR too. My iPad doesn't let me view your videos, I'll have to check them out when I'm near a PC. I did run through your photos, pretty cool stuff you've built.
At 7:24am on August 19, 2014, Michael Fred Johnson said…

Thanks Forrest

 
 
 

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