I just found out about CBG's yesterday reading the August issue of Premium Guitar. I only did that because I just bought a used Fender Stratocaster online and I'm reviving a teenage interest in guitar. I hardly know how to play yet, but I'm looking forward to learning. I've been self-teaching tenor sax for about five years, and while I dearly love the instrument, I find I get in a rut and have to put it down for a week or two at times. I think I can alternate guitar and sax to "cure" that dead time in between. It might be awhile before I build a guitar - we just moved into a condo in the last two weeks, and I have to figure everything out as far where to work on such a project, but I love the idea. 1. I smoke cigars and love the artwork of the cigars. 2. I have a strong electronics background, having an avionics diploma and currently working as a telecom tech, and having built my own computers a few times. (I taught my Son to do that when he was 11, by buying his PC in pieces.) 3. I am a fairly decent cartoon-style artist and I also have done numerous freehand wood burnings with a magnifying glass in the sun.

All that said, I plan to learn the basics of making electric guitars, build a few CBG's, then do my own art piece guitars. I'm also running around some ideas in my head for how to build an electrified version of my other instrument, maybe.

Expect me to lurk and watch and learn awhile before diving in - but I will eventually. This looks like something a guy could build a life-long passion for.

Dan