Oh, thank you so much!

Wow! That's amazing!

This one was an interesting break. Apparently it happened in slow motion: the customer doesn't remember dropping the instrument, they saw a crack begin to develop, came in for a lesson with me, and when they opened the case the head had come completely off. The character of the crack is largely across end grain, cracks almost always follow the grain, so this is quite strange to me. I would guess it was a weak piece of mahogany to begin with.

Up hear being western Montana.

Are you getting the Aurora Borealis down there? They're pretty bright up here, at least they were about a half hour ago.

Interesting, there is definitely a bit of that going on. I always though that was because it was built by nerds, for nerds, and they just don't care enough about it being super easy to use...I'm going to have to rethink.

Looking at the edge where the neck meets the fretboard, I feel decent about my feathering of the shellac. The edge of the neck had to be scraped down a touch, and so it was bare wood, very pale, didn't look good at all.

I think that most holy wars being undertaken by Christians is interesting. First, it's got a lot to do with it being more recent, I'm sure the Romans and Persians and Muslims fought plenty of "holy" wars too, just because religion is an easy excuse. Also, the western society that embraced Christian became the most successful, so they could wage the most wars! That having been said, I pretty much agree. More of an alchemist though...I like meat! 😁

Came in yesterday! Buying from was really quite easy, I look forward to doing business with them again! #knowledge #books #literature

Finished this guy a couple days ago, just got around to posting. If I find time to record it, I'll let you all hear how it sounds, it's a very dry sounding guitar, but it did surprise me a little bit. P.S. I did not glue the neck joint, I don't know what glue was used, but the customer did that work first! The work being done on the table saw was narrowing & tapering the pre-slotted fret board. #guitar #luthery #craft #woodworking

Just hire a kid to fill them, pay the kid in sats, it might turn out to be the most lucrative job they'll ever have!

That's pretty wild.

Bro! Sell that martin to someone who will love it!

I'll bet he's happy, that is sharp!

Not a one.

Yes. With good hardwood properly done it is a good way to raise the action without having to charge too much and loosing basically no tone or volume; but a shim of that size, on this instrument in particular, was a horrible idea.

You've got a Daylight? Is it as good as the adds make it look?

Different type of problem, but I really couldn't believe this, came out of a Guild. The saddle slot was not deep enough, and so the joint between the shim and saddle was nearly flush with the top of the slot! Thus the forward bend/lean. And finally my replacement on bottom, not yet finished, but I feel it shows the dramatic difference.

I don't complement people back because then it feels transactional. I complement them later, when I see something to complement.

Ooh, an interesting way to phrase it: An artist courts a patron.

Hey, don't diss on affordable housing, plenty of people can use it. I know what you mean though, surely there are solutions...

Scene of the river near us, mostly trying to experiment with a little dry brush, then I scraped out some extra highlights. Didn't have a reference photo, I really want to do this one again, to get a better overall composition.

DAMN! That's gutsy and sharp. I like it.

I have always loved Gordon Lightfoot, I have also been called an old soul so...