Surgeon’s Hobby Creating Cigar Box Guitars

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Kirk Withrow, a surgeon and cigar box guitar maker, imparts a good deal of maker wisdom in this lovely CNN profile.

“I absolutely don’t want to make them to support myself. Once you switch from making something because you feel like it to doing it because you have to it takes away from it,” he said. “My main goal is to make them so they play very well. It’s more about the process of doing it. I learn something new every time so I’m constantly reinventing.”

Surgeon’s hobby creating cigar box guitars (Thanks, Pesco!)

2 thoughts on “Surgeon’s Hobby Creating Cigar Box Guitars

  1. Hank says:

    Nice report. Guess he’s not too concerned about loosing his day job by loosing his eye sight…WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES DAMN IT!!!

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