Surgeon's hobby creating cigar box guitars

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!)

• [George Tirebiter]

  I guess we can’t ban all tobacco products if this man is to make a living doing the thing he loves.  Does that seem ironic, his being a surgeon?

• [Manuel Smirnoff]

  Ironic is a surgeon not wearing proper safety glasses while using power tools.