I'm Brent McElroy, I'm a guitar maker.
I live in Seattle, Washington.
Well, I've been involved in music almost all my life,
and I actually was a drummer since I've been in band since I was in junior high.
And I was more interested in my friend's guitars,
especially when the acoustic guitars came out and I couldn't play drums because I was too loud.
I eventually got my own acoustic guitar so I could play along.
And so I learned a little guitar and was intrigued with the instrument more so than the drums.
They're fun, but they're not as intriguing.
And through the years I ran into a guy at work and I was a carpenter
and I ran into this guy that said he made guitars.
What? I didn't know anybody could do that.
But I found that very intriguing and being as I was a carpenter and my hobby was woodworking.
I found that just fascinating and I kind of forgot about it.
And then a few years later I had opened a little coffee house
and I had music on the weekends and this guy came in to play and he made his own guitar.
Now I was even closer because I could see the guitar and the guy that made it
and found it extremely intriguing.
And I said, you know, I don't see how you could do something like that.
It just amazes me.
And he was looking at all the woodwork I did in our little coffee house
and he said, well, if you could do this kind of work, you know, you could make a guitar.
And I said, well, I doubt it.
But that stuck in my head and it was just a couple of years later I moved here to Seattle
and I saw a third guitar maker down at Seattle Center.
It was some event and there was a guy at a table that had some half-made guitars
and now I was just, I had to figure it out.
And after that I was hooked, totally hooked.
I was really starting just as a hobby I thought it would be fun to do
and after I finished the first one I was already buying wood for the second one
and planning it out and it just went from there.
You know, I was already hooked by that
and it's almost a hundred guitars later now and I still enjoy it.
So I don't know, you know, it's just kind of like a job now
so you're just doing a job that you enjoy most of the time
except for when something frustrating happens and that's when I start cursing.
