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Ruphus
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 RE: How do luthier/players protect t... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
... Its all about being there and not working to fast, not doing multiple tasks....
On a side road:
Funny how this with doing multiple tasks is so much in the media these days. Its like its not ok to focus and concentrate on one thing only. Especially women are so proud of their capacity of multitasking. My life is so much about going against this trend. I like concentrating on one thing a time. wheater I build a guitar or a boat, its all about being there and saying that means a lot of preparation. I enter my workshop from society with all its stress etc. and I need time to kind of go back in time and find my real me. The one I am when I´m allowed to be so. If I skip that step, I dont build (or play) well. Fortunately, with experience you learn to go from one dimension to another faster.
My bro was a doer. A company owner who´d often be in more countries per week than it has days.
He seemed to multi task like a calculation center, hopping back and forth between people, plots and parts. Obvioulsy, he was optimally trained in switching focus while impressively keeping string of consciousness on return to a matter.
Already some ~ 25 years ago it was found that the human brain cannot really manage multiple tasks at once. Yet, the message seems to not have reached manager circles who to this day like to pose with what they consider to be multi tasking, and at the same time mental elevator above mere mortal pedestrians.
Just on Saturday there was another report on a recent study that revealed one other time how trying to solve multiple tasks simultaneously will only prolong work. It was noted that efficiency lies in preparation and scheduling for unwinding one task after the other.
Besides suiting me personally, who had to accept from early on that I can only deal with one thing at a time. ( When reading for instance I´ll hardly even notice if you speak to me.)
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Fashionable managing departments might understand one day. Realizing that juggling half a dozen of phones, and offices light up till night won´t be equalling mastery.
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I love carpentries ever since, not only for the wonderful material, but also for their quiet, contemplative and great smelling atmosphere.
Hadn´t that old grumpy guy constantly been kicking me out of his workshop when I was 12; chances would have been not too small of becoming a joiner - and then rather likely a guitar maker.
Ruphus
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Date Jan. 16 2012 11:05:24
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Flamingrae
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 RE: How do luthier/players protect t... (in reply to britguy)
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How do you guys protevt your playing nails when working in the shop, etc.???
One answer is that you do get better at protecting and maintaining them as time goes on. When I got into this, growing my nails was a bit of an alien occupation. However, your nails grow, they break (quite a bit) and you settle down on a formula that works for your playing (and working) style. My current set-up is acrylic thumb and superglue on the rest - just the right hand though. Every now and then you still break nails and so you have to take a back seat on playing - a chance to catch up with something else - or is that multi tasking??
On that that note, interesting to hear the rest of the thread. This year I got a new workshop, so I have fire in my belly so to speak. Before moving in I was saying to myself, I know, I'll do five or six of everything and that will speed everything up - which ultimately that will. The trouble is that at some point, your really need to home in and focus on one job at a time. For me, this involves a bit of thought, the approach and then execution. The nature of the work is such that it commands nothing less than total immersion. That could involve a period of casual planing or scraping but at the final hurdle - 100%
Yes, I can multi task - ask any teacher and it comes with the territory, but I'm probably calmer and happier with one. 
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Date Jan. 16 2012 12:13:31
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