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RE: Put it in the MW-oven
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estebanana
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 RE: Put it in the MW-oven (in reply to Ruphus)
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First off, putting wood in the microwave is really a stupid idea vis-vis making ready for guitar making. Having the foresight to buy the stock ahead of time waiting for it to season under normal conditions is, well to put it mildly, more sane.
Second, not that any of us should continue intellectually babysit the pseudo-science crowd believing crowd, but Cousteau really needs no defending. He was a poet, filmmaker, co inventor of the SCUBA equipment a pioneer environmentalist, an author and much more. By developing SCUBA diving technique, he and others helped open the oceans to human exploration, the scientific gain of humanity due to his contributions are vast. The oceans still comprise the largest amount of unknown territory, fauna, and mysteries of life than any other place on the planet. The work of Cousteau, his books, films, scientific inquiry really served to help humans understand the vitality and importance of the oceans.
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Date Jul. 10 2014 2:08:27
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Andy Culpepper
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From: NY, USA
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RE: Put it in the MW-oven (in reply to tijeretamiel)
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Andy, I can imagine your wife coming into the kitchen and seeing you take out a piece of smouldering/stinking wood from the microwave, giving you a questioning look and you walking out of the kitchen with a look of shame on your face.
Nice sounding new blanca on your YT, can't believe it's your 50th instrument already. I really liked the all cedar guitar you made recently, do you have any other guitars of interesting tonewood combinations in the pipeworks?
Also, here's a pat on the back on the back for the fine work and effort you are making to grow the hair. Good work Andy.
Hehe. That incident happened in Dick Cogger's shop actually. He was pretty forgiving with those kind of experiments.
Thanks... #50 will be done in a couple weeks and I'll post pictures and better audio. Right now I'm starting two pretty standard negras and a blanca, but after those I have in mind to use an old bearclaw Spruce top in combination with some really nice flame Maple back and sides for a flamenca. Should be interesting.
On the hair front, I must say it is getting close to being chopped off. Not only is it hot in the summer, but my wife and I are having a baby (due in 5 days!) and I'm going to look to make my personal grooming routine as simple as possible. 
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Date Jul. 10 2014 2:52:47
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Ruphus
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RE: Put it in the MW-oven (in reply to estebanana)
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Congrats, Andy!
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Stephen, neglection of undesired truth about an adored personality who actually was a faker, environmental vandal, Nazi entourage and antisemit does not suit well to profane facts.
( Vichy collaborate Cousteau about diffculties in 1941 to find housing in Bordeaux with Jewish fugitives cramped in that city: "There will not be decent apartment until all those ignoble kikes burdening us are kicked out".)
And bringing forward scuba diving with an engineer, state budget and nothing else to do: What a big deal, to which by now probably noone else including marines would had come to.
For his environmental engagement with ill-treatment and perishing of dolphins, killer whales and fish, of a same pioneering quality like with triggering the big shark hunt, is his contract with Darcy Exploration Company and his investigations for the oil industry´s sea mining.
( Cousteau bragging in 1954, before environmentalism became chic: “We were the people who discovered oil in the Gulf! It was us who made the emirate of Abu Dhabi rich!”)
One may possibly forgive his cruel and polluting takes on nature, which at his time were just common sense. One might theoretically even connive his opportunism with the German Nazis and Vichy regime for a hypothetical lack of judge and reason / falling for mass manipulation.
But publicly defaming a species as vicious ( or unholy) monster like he did to sharks ( or comparably clerics historically did to beings like cats, snakes, goats, dogs or redheaded widows) results into witch hunting which any irresponsible author, even yet the least educated, should be in a position to foresee.
Too much wicked policy for Cousteau´s personal benefit to be considered mistaking.
Less even mistaking by man of honor.
Ruphus
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Date Jul. 10 2014 9:55:50
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