Welcome to the board MikeB.

I think you have the potential to grow a full beard, it is just going to take some time.

Lewis has some very good points in his posting. When you grow a beard, you are going to find out a lot about yourself and the people around you. You will have bad beard days, good beard days, and people will make jokes about your beard. You will have to set a goal like... I am going to grow this beard for ??? number of weeks & I will not shave until that time is up. Under no circumstances should you deviate from your goal. You can always count on the support of the beard board to carry you through to reaching your goal.

I wish good luck and successful beard growing.

Gary