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And yes I see what you mean with the guitar "build" statement. But they are just words and I think that they get the point across.

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What about.... assemble, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct?

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I've met Ruben a couple of times and he seemed like an overly enthusiastic geek to me... Nothing wrong with that, we are all pretty much that when it comes to what we are passionate about. But the problem with Ruben is that he seems to couple that trait with a very advanced state of megalomania - it's quite simply a wrong combination.


Well said, I also met him, at the 12th fret in Toronto and he was pushy. If you want to kill time, visit other guitar forums and see what you find on Ruben. Only one forum did not end up kicking him out, one from France, only because he could not speak French. Read the developments in the threads, it's amusing.

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is what lawyers call 'misrepresentation'...

Right on too.

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I absolutely hate it when people call making a guitar a "build". It's incorrect English.

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ORIGINAL: avimuno
But then again, most people playing Andalusian guitars are beginners who have not yet learned what a good flamenco guitar should be like, so it does not really harm the honest luthier who works hard at delivering the best possible instrument at a fair price.

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First of all, never, ever use the term "build" in front of me. Besides being an assault on the English language, it makes me crazy raving mad enough to cut someone with a prison shiv. Please don't in my company refer to your guitar making project as a "build". Thanks.

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Build, used as a verb, is a perfectly legitimate use of the English language

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FACT: the first few pages of this thread were from SATISFIED OWNERS of his guitars and then the trolls came on board and reduced this thread to another pissing contest.

FACT: The people posting sh!t about Andalusian guitars have never even laid hands on one of them or tested them out and are slagging his stuff because he p1ssed them off when he joined this foro.

FACT: As for a producer "misrepresenting" his goods, if anyone posting on this thread actually made it to law school (highly doubt it) they'd realise there is a very fine distinction between "misrepresentation" and "marketing" (selling a banjo and calling it a guitar is misrepresentation, selling an ordinary guitar and calling it the best ever made is marketing ... thats capitalism at its best, deal with it.)

FACT: Using concepts you know nothing off to try and bolster your argument usually ends up having the opposite effect ... its called PARADOX.

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ORIGINAL: nealf
... selling an ordinary guitar and calling it the best ever made is marketing ...

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Hey Cory,

I tried to warn you.

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I'd rather get a signed make from a good and established Luthier myself, who is not ashamed of putting his signature on his work or disclosing where his workshp is located.

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want to know that one man spent a lot of time and energy and effort constructing a guitar and can put his name on it with pride.

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Arrogant is not a word I would choose for your insinuation that I'm retarded or lack an education.
More descriptive words usually spring to mind whenever I come across someone who feels the need to insult and put others down just to make themselves feel ever so important.
Next time you get up off your throne don't forget to flush, I'd rather not smell that kind of ****.

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Build, used as a verb, is a perfectly legitimate use of the English language when referring to "building a guitar." It is a synonym for "construct" and any number of other verbs referring to assembling or making something according to a plan.

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Everyone has language bugaboos and pet peeves. How is your build - and - Where you at- are two things that sound horrible to me.

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How is your build going sounds bad to my ear, and it sounds uneducated to my ear. So does the oft heard construction: Where you at?

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You should hear my colleages at Microsoft:

"Playbook" - how to do something
"Go to" as a noun i.e. where to go for help
"Ask" - as a noun i.e. this is our ask
"Battlecard" - competive information
"Call to action" - go do something
"Reach out" - ask for help
"Ecosystem" - people selling stuff

yadda yadda....

Get's my goat, it does