I really appreciate you guys pulling your heads out of the woodwork and saying such encouraging things. Of course I did suspect I was not not speaking to an empty room, but it is a matter of mere faith if no one speaks as I cannot see you.
I do have the NOT so secret agenda that I would like to see more people adopt some of my methods. The standard (as if) building systems are more suited to production and do not promote growth IMO, and too many of us become relatively stagnant creatively by adopting them. Who wants to build a new mold even though the old mold's guitars are starting to look "wrong"? And that is the tip of an iceberg.
I have all but completed the rumored book, but then I lost confidence in my style about the same time as I realized what a task compilation and editing were. I sent a few pages of the book off to a volunteer editor and received in return further discouragement. A total breach of trust from my POV, but even knowing that I have never recovered. My house is not entirely glass, but I guess there is a lot of it. More likely, at this point, is that I will make a series of videos not entirely unlike the recent ones I posted earlier in this thread, but with some cohesion around my conceptual process. Time'll tell.
By the way, as "president" of NCAL, I have taken upon myself to create a club website. It is basically three pages at this point: One to describe the mission and the time and location of the next meeting. Two to recap previous meetings. Three a contact page to help new members hook up. Number two is called "History", and it has links to the videos we made at the last meeting. The URL is:
http://ncal.club