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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.

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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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