Hello CBN! My name is Eric, and I'm from east coast Canada. Province of New Brunswick. Thought I should introduce myself since signing up a day or two ago. Came across this site on Facebook and quickly became a fan and wanted to join..many thanks for opening the doors with a welcome.

I'm 59, a retired graphic designer and illustrator, with inherited musical interests...my grandfather played tenor sax during the big band era, my mom and aunt played and taught piano, and I dabbled in both piano and guitar as a youth and still strum occasionally on the old 6 string. I have played, taught and competed with bagpipes now for close to 40 years, but look forward to building and learning to play the cigar box guitar. I'm totally intrigued.

Just starting to tear into this site, but am amazed at the amount of info and resource material included here. What a great community to become a part of. Thanks to everyone who has shared and contributed something here...very much appreciated by newbs like myself.

I look forward to sharing some pics and vids once my first attempt at a build is complete. In the meantime, I intend to immerse myself into the awesomeness of this site! Cheers everyone and thanks for having me!

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welcome Eric  .  im  in Ontario  ,    there  is a Canadian club  on this  sute   where   you  could introduce yourself also  .  http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/canadian-cbg?

Thank you Pick. I didn't realize that, but I'm still only just getting into the site. Appreciate the welcome and the info. Cheers!

yer welcome  . and  here are some folks  near  you  http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profiles/members/search?name=&gen...

;-)

Great stuff! Had no idea. Thnx for sharing
Welcome to the site neighbor.

I'm quite new myself, from Quebec.

Didn't know either about the Canadian Club...

the club is pretty  non active except for introductions and canadian cbg news  now and  then  ,  but  is a great resource  for finding   members close to  you  .  you  can also  do a  search   " members  / advance search  . country    ,  etc  .  from the community  link in  top  menu  . 

Thank you and hello Gilles. Nice to hear from you. :)
Thanks Erasmo. Cheers from the east coast! :)

Welcome to the Nation Eric. Lots of good folks here and some great craziness to enjoy. CBGs are more fun than a sack full of squirrels at an acorn party. Enjoy your builds, there will be more than one as once you start, it's hard to quit.

Thank you Thomas. I can't wait to get started. I find I'm already quite 'hooked' on the guitars with all this great info here...can't wait to try my hand at building one. Cheers!

Well shoot, I'm in Mississippi, but welcome anyway.

Thnx Paul...no worries, Im enjoying this whole site! Glad you stopped by to say hello. :) cheers!

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