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RE: Building two classicals on a deadline- will I make it?
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Ricardo
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 RE: Building two classicals on a dea... (in reply to estebanana)
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Ricardo, you need to spent more time in Granada.
I read an article about one of the best French polishers in Granada and when he was asked if he worked with Orange and dark red finishes he said absolutely not. “In Granada we don’t do that because it gives an uneven finish and is a sure sign the finish is thick and sprayed. Our aesthetic in Granada is better.”
I have been to Granada several times…a nice tourist trap.
About finish…never will forget my first gypsy wedding gig in DC. I was clueless, they wanted myself and the flamingo dancers. So I brought my shiny orange brand new conde I had acquire from Postigo in Sevilla, 1999. The gypsy guy that hired me did not have the wood floor tablao I asked for, so they laid down a round table with the metal legs that fold, right on the ground. After the first set, I left my guitar on the chair and went to the bathroom. I was shocked at all the little kids in there, smoking and drinking alcohol, dressed up like mafia bosses. When I returned, I found my conde faced down on the floor, with crown royal whisky poured all over the back, kids running all around the place like they owned it. In that moment, I understood why all the flamenco gitanos lately were also using these impenetrable poly urethane orange finishes … to protect their guitars from the kids during the bodas!!!!
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Date Dec. 13 2022 15:44:37
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estebanana
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RE: Building two classicals on a dea... (in reply to orsonw)
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Gol dang I’m exhausted. I’ve been working my teaching job and this at the same time with a lot of focus. I’m going to make my deadline which I don’t think I divulged this whole time. Honestly if I didn’t make it I was going to lie and change the date. 😂
The dead line is December 19th to have them boxed and ready for pick up. I have to do a quick final polish the finger prints off them, my fingerprints from handling them and tape up the shipping boxes and make the labels.
December 20th I’m going to walk out in front of my house and get on the bus for a two hour ride to the airport and a three week visit to a different country. So I’ve made it. I have an unusual case of post building blues. Some people get mild depression after they finish a guitar or concert series or mount an art show. At the terminal end of a creative process there’s a little pain that it’s over. Sometimes I feel like fraud, like I didn’t make a good guitar, the results are underwhelming, sadness that it’s over and it didn’t go well. I don’t feel this way every time, sometimes I’m indifferent, like I changed the windshield wipers on my car. Other times I feel jazzed about the guitar and hop around with a lighter step. Usually when I make a flame maple back and sides guitar I get really happy when it’s finished because I’m mesmerized by the French polishing on tiger flamed maple, I can’t stop looking at it. I wish I could keep my own maple guitars because they are so beautiful to my heart having started out in a violin shop in high school.
Sometimes I think about my first instrument making teacher. He was in his mid sixties and I was around 17 when I started cleaning the shop and working for his wife in her antique shop. They taught me a lot about art history as they were collectors and antique dealers. Once in a while I think how nice it would be to show him my mature work, he died before I made any significant guitars, and I think the maple back and sides models would have blown him away.
It’s depressing that time is linear in respect to your instructors life timeline. Time has a shape in that we make stuff and it stays here when we leave. We shape things that last longer than us. It’s sad and it’s not sad, but we make shapes that occupy time and space after we stop being a 3 dimensional being.
Things are so weird.
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