As a introverted semi-loner, I have always appreciated my chosen profession where many of my colleagues build by themselves. Working alone day after day building top notch guitars has a romance to it that I've always found very appealing. However, there are some days when I'm glad I'm part of a two man shop. Today is one of those days - a day when it's nice to just have someone to commiserate with and say "we can get through this...let's start working." To all the lone luthiers, I have a lot of respect when you can pick yourself up after challenging days.
This morning, this is what greeted us in our shop.
Once we thought that having some hot water in the shop would be a nice thing, but since our water heater decided to explode, we're thinking maybe not. Thankfully, none of our in-production work was bothered (except in some work delay) and cases did their job to protect finished instruments. We did recently rework some of our wood storage, and unfortunately, we had a fair amount of sets leaning against the wall in our office.
Sorry if this panorama makes the page too big.
More coming.