How it Began...
It happens. You love doing your crafts so much that eventually you run out of space to put the things you made. You've given your family and friends things they asked you to make and while your storage space gets smaller, the list of craft ideas and things you want to make just gets longer. So it started with us. I loved woodburning and started doing it more and more. Then I got a Cricut machine and well things just got worse. Now there was a whole NEW world of crafting to try! I made cute signs and continued with my woodburning to the point I decided I needed to do something with them all. Enter Etsy. I started up a site and since most of the wood I used was repurposed from other things like guard stakes, pallets and leftover scraps from other things, it only seemed fitting to call it Second Cut Crafts. After a while the hubby retired and wanted to get into a hobby. He had always been good at woodworking and he created all my bases for the signs and woodburning. He stumbled upon cigar box guitars. He watched countless videos on how to make them and made his first one. Then his second one. Both played so well that he decided to make some more using finer hardware and making them a little nicer. He made one for our niece, and another for the neighbor using a silver vodka box that the neighbor had. Then he made another and sold it at cost to a friend. One led to another..and then another. Each one was better than the last. With his knowledge of woodworking and guitars, and our sons extensive guitar knowledge, he has been able to handcraft some really beautiful cigar box guitars. Eventually he had the same problem..."I have too many guitars" (said no one ever!)..but the reality was that we needed to start selling them. It is too expensive to just keep making them to keep and not enough room to store all of them! Once we started checking out the cigar shops to buy their empty boxes that we liked I started thinking about the boxes we got that didn't work well for guitars due to their shape or they were too beat up. Hence, my next craft project was born. I started making little keepsake boxes/jewelry boxes, then decided to make some play boxes for kids that they could take with them places and then came cigar box purses. So now you get to see the result of our hodgepodge of craft projects. It is something we can't seem to stop doing...there is something cathartic about picking out a box and getting an idea of what you want it to be and making it so.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
