... Because I did not find a brandy box on the thrift. 
Well, my main instrument these days is a cigar box guitar. Having friends over and attempting (poorly, I might add) to have an ol' fashioned jam-sesh, quickly falls apart with a poor choice in instruments. Hence the bass. The kinda CBG matched WBB. 

Two strings, fretless, piezo pickup, oak neck.
​First wind-up sounded like crap due to the strings being old dirty crap strings, the thicker one sourced from a slaughtered piano from the 1820's. New strings fixed that, and yeah. The combo of guitar and bass is a lot more satisfying than guitar and guitar. 

It's unlikely that I'm the first to independently come up with this solution, but I am yet to see it in the builds of others: Extending the paintjob of the fretboard for like half a cm unto the player side of the neck negates the need for marking pins. 

... Played Stockholm wednesday the 14th june. I was there. With fantastic company of my GF, and a very good friend.
Terrible sound mix, sweaty locale, supporting act INHALT just so, so, awful. 6 hours in a reliable but not very comfortable car to get there... 
... It. Was. Awesome. 
Been a fan since mid 90's, but oh crap allmighty, these guys just rock so much. 

and other euphemisms. 

I found a pair of inexpensive bovine horns at a flea market. Gave it a go to make a powder horn. For once, I actually documented the process. 

... And regarding my niece:
The goal of the fundraiser was met. If anyone got there from here, thank you.
​Thank you so much.