Enough with the "luthier" stuff...

[OddManOut]

Originally Posted by davidd

Every time I read about somebody taking their guitar into their "luthier" I want to scream! How many real luthiers are out there? If I went to Gryphon near me and had one of their guys setup my guitar it wouldn't be taking it to a "luthier". A luthier makes stringed instruments and if someone doesn't they aren't a luthier.

I always understood their to be "build luthiers" and "repair luthiers". I assume most skilled repair staff at a shop is a repair luthiers.



I believe some (many?) small shop "build luthiers" work as "repair luthiers" to earn some of their income. e.g. Mr. Matsuda at Gryphon.

[bfm612]

My dad's a luthier, so once in a while I tell my friends, "I would have love to have watched 'Dune' this weekend, but I had to help my luthier replace the P-trap under his kitchen sink."

[Dotneck]

Originally Posted by bfm612

My dad's a luthier, so once in a while I tell my friends, "I would have love to have watched 'Dune' this weekend, but I had to help my luthier replace the P-trap under his kitchen sink."

Can you both fit under the sink?

[WiseAxe]

My luthier can beat up your luthier?

[Wade Hampton]

I’ll confess right up front that I haven’t read all the pages of this thread. So if someone has already made the exact same point that I’m about to make, my apologies.

Here it is: language moves on. “Luthier” is now a common term for “music store guitar technician” because it’s come to mean that. It doesn’t matter that back in the 1970’s it didn’t mean that, because now it does, and these days that’s one of the meanings of the word.

Hope that makes sense.


Wade Hampton Miller

[KevinH]

Kinda nutty, probably not worth fretting over.

[llew]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Kinda nutty, probably not worth fretting over.

I totally agree...slow day on the forum?

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Kinda nutty, probably not worth fretting over.

There was supposed to be a rimshot after that, but I couldn't find a rimshot emoji

[AcousticDreams]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

I’ll confess right up front that I haven’t read all the pages of this thread. So if someone has already made the exact same point that I’m about to make, my apologies.

Here it is: language moves on. “Luthier” is now a common term for “music store guitar technician” because it’s come to mean that. It doesn’t matter that back in the 1970’s it didn’t mean that, because now it does, and these days that’s one of the meanings of the word.

Hope that makes sense.


Wade Hampton Miller

Bravo!

Well Said Wade.

Their are many guitar Teck's, who occasionally build a guitar.

From a kit or from scratch, all you have to do is build one guitar to become a luthier.

[Bob Womack]

Bob

[LakewoodM32Fan]

Originally Posted by KevinH

There was supposed to be a rimshot after that, but I couldn't find a rimshot emoji

Trust me...we all heard it in our heads.

[Rosewood99]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Kinda nutty, probably not worth fretting over.

I’ll take “note” of that.

[upsidedown]

Originally Posted by Rosewood99

I’ll take “note” of that.

We’re really stringing the puns together.

[phcorrigan]

Originally Posted by Mark Stone

Strangely, my repairman that is not a Luthier does higher quality repairs. Go figure!

Not so strange. Back in my auto repair days (1970s) we often did repairs that improved on what the car manufacturer did originally.

[Dotneck]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

it didn’t mean that, because now it does, and these days that’s one of the meanings of the word.

Not to me…