I've got friends that would love such an instrument. We get together, cook a lot of food, music is performed by a variety of bluegrass musicians that show up, often to the point of having a full band going. Maybe i'll make one some day, but I would be totally ignorant on tuning it, getting the frets right. I feel like building such a thing would be straight forward enough, but I know nothing of string instruments other than they sound nice.