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I love junk. Not for its own sake, really, or out of any desire to accumulate it myself. I love junk because of its potential – the story of what it was, and the unwritten story of what it could be. There’s just something special about taking a pile of junk and turning it into a work of art, which also happens to be a playable musical instrument.Gone Junkin' So, back to junk. This past weekend, I was staying up in Bar Harbor, Maine as part of a yearly Mother’s Day get-togethe …

I am pretty much a newcomer to junking, picking, thrifting, yard sale-ing and the like. Though I grew up poor and most of my clothes and toys were second-hand, it is only since getting into making cigar box guitars and other handmade instruments that I have begun to appreciate the value of junk stores, thrift stores, yard sales and to a lesser extent antique stores. Once you realize how many different things you can make musical instruments out of, it isn’t long before you kno …