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Chris,
I admire your effort to take care of business for your home and family. You gave of your time to help us with your videos and tutes, a hearty personal thanks for helping me build the 2 guitars I have finished to date.

I recently was able to make a shift in work to part time teaching wood work in High School and Middle school, taking my personal preferences into the classroom, we have made Kalimbas and Cigar box guitars. We have no shop to work in, so everything comes to the class room in a big Tupperware and a tool box. Primitive based instruments have great appeal to many, simple and unintimidating. I would guess that if you assembled parts for kits to make some basic items, other drivers would likely want to make some similar items in their down time.

If you can perform in some small venues on breaks with one of your handmade guitars, you can generate sales. People like that type of personal connection.
Best wishes, be safe, and if you hit the I-5 corridor on the west coast, you have a friend on the freeway in Northern Cali.
Rob

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