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11-28-2018, 08:41 PM
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Afraid I am hooked.
I am FLOUNDERING at my first build. Sanding and scraping saw marks off of two rosewood plates and planing the edges to prep for gluing. Plane, check for light, sand with a true edge, check for light, Plane again.
I am actually enjoying it. Never have I enjoyed something I am so bad at. It even beats golf. I actually became decent at golf. Dont know what the guitar building equivalent to breaking 90 is, or playing an entire round with one ball? 
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11-28-2018, 08:57 PM
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People under estimate the value of self worth, when making something with your hands and mind it can be incredibly rewarding.
Steve
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Cole Clark Fat Lady Gretsch Electromatic Martin CEO7 Maton Messiah Taylor 814CE
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11-28-2018, 10:11 PM
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LOL the analogy to golf is very well put.
I was talking to my self when touching up a guitar that I am finishing in French Polish today thinking that certain things like using hand tools or French Polishing and so on are like art and music in of its self. You can have the best music teacher for example or apprentice under the best luthier and no matter what if you are going to be successful you have to make it your own, you have to improvise. Using a hand plane to join the top is just like that. In the beginning you have to work and work and work until you start to see how it's done through your own lens. Some like to focus on the middle for example, others the ends. Some will shoot the board with one stroke and adjust the pressure based on what they saw on the light table.... And so on... That's why building guitars is just as much of an art as playing them.
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11-29-2018, 07:26 PM
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I still have to work at my plane skills. In the meantime I just use a straightedge and a router to true up the edges. I want to work to the point where I use power tools less.
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Fred
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#6
12-01-2018, 10:02 PM
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Card scraper is my new obsession.
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