I wish this was a full blown joke, but in actually it's partly true. If you've ever tried to run an online business selling merch there is a good chance you've dabbled in the dark art of boxology. I call it dark art, because honestly, if you don't become good at it, you will pay with the wallet, and there is nothing darker than that.

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Now, I would not dare to put myself to the level of the true masters, they play in a different planet. For example: I never tried making a desk out of boxes, or a dinning set, but I've made some intricate things before, for fun or for some sort of weird necessity.

Why am I talking about boxes, today of all days, monday? Well because, I'm packing a bunch of stuff, im sending out some guitars today (the ones I gave away, will do more later) and boxology had to make a triumphant entrance. I'm sincerely laughing at the fact that I've actually learned how to make this chimera boxes that can contain just about everything, and do so safely.

You may not know this but...

Cardboard is an amazing material

I know what you are going to say, "what about the trees?". I know, but that is a separate conversation all together. This post is about boxology and the powers of cardboarding your life. Which of course is something that even me, a pseudo hippy, has to admire.

Believe it or not, as amazing as it is for you to see someone riding a bike made out of cardboard on this picture, this is not the most incredible thing I've seen in muh life, not even close. Of course, understanding how a cardboard can be constructed, how interchanging the direction of the grooves and stacking them at specific air gaps can make it strong enough to hold a man's weight, complete makes the next little cardboard toy explainable.

This...

Takes the cake....

You wanna call bovine excrement?

I would not blame you, not in the slightest. As a matter of fact when someone sent me this video I watched with the attention of a starving hawk to see if at some point in time I had been bamboozled. You might now know this, but I build guitars from scratch, I buy the lumber, put in hundreds of hours of work and make them into instruments, so this, this crazy idea was precisely up my alley.

Just because I'm sure someone will still think this is some photoshop ninjism... check out the video of its construction for yourself. If you are a guitar player, you will not believe your eyes/ears.

Anyways my friends, I hope that you leave this blog today with a new found respect for the boxologists and the tape connoisseurs. They deserve it, right?