I spent some time today making the decorative inlay for three of the five instruments in my historical guitar project. I wanted them to share unifying motifs and materials, but for each to have an individual character.
Tag: luthiery
Saturday night brace shaving extravaganza on a tiny terz guitar
Cold weather woodwork (like a Bosch!). It’s going to get loud, and maybe a little dusty.
My foray into making videos about my guitar construction continues. Looking at various well-known youtubers for inspiration has led me to some conclusions. There’s a difference between documenting a process vs. doing it with the intent to make a video.
Documentation means stopping in the middle of things without regard for your glue-crusted fingertips to get a shot of the action. (In this case assembling a tiny mosaic of a maple leaf). It’s not particularly photogenic, but dammit, glue doesn’t wait!
In an age of social media-based self promotion it’s not enough to make something that looks good (or functions well), the craftsperson has to look good doing it. The video has to be a completely separate product, and its requirements don’t necessarily align with the actual working process.
I figure if you have to make a tool, there’s no reason NOT to make it look like it came from the carpentry chest on a clipper ship.
Putting finishing touches on a new guitar and trying it out for the first time requires that you go through all your solo faces to see how they affect the tone. #luthiery
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Diary of a mad luthier…FRANKENTAR!
Jeffery, that kind of thinking is just deplorable and sick.
Currently.
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