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Injuries from French polishing
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ernandez R
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Joined: Mar. 25 2019
From: Alaska USA
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 RE: Injuries from French polishing (in reply to constructordeguitarras)
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****, that sucks…
I’ve got a lifetime of cumulative damage from working hard but mostly aircraft riveting. I really noticed it when I’m sanding my rib/lining edges on a plate and discovered I just can’t do it. On my lightly built flamencas I don’t dare use a plane and my beefy hickory edged classicals laugh at my plane blade ;) So o got smart and rigged up a power driver that moves the sanding plate with the ribs in the tooling.
Point I’m making is we can and need to find solutions to keep doing what we love as we age.
I know Capt’ Faulk bought a drum sander cause the issue with his hands and couldn’t wield the scraper. I’ll let him bring it up if he chooses.
About playing with the issue in your right hand, give it the middle finger ;) , Jango Rinheart comes to mind with only two fire distorted fingers on his left hand…
I came to the conclusion a few years ago that my mind and body was not going to allow me to play at the level I had had a young man… I’m cool with that, I make my “flamingo” noises every day, a steel string guitar guy complimented me on my rosgeoto the other day but what does he know ;)
Guess I’ll close with this: you make beautiful guitars and sure many out there smile each time they pick up one of yours; and your playing is masterful, not much to add, sit back and b grateful for what you have done and been able to do, we are all so fortunate compared to many in the world.
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doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
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Date Feb. 15 2024 18:06:49
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Tikahtnu
Posts: 23
Joined: Jul. 10 2021
From: Alaska
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RE: Injuries from French polishing (in reply to constructordeguitarras)
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Irrelevant to french polishing, but when I was younger (and probably at some point again in the future) I was a champion of a game I called knuckle busters, which was a bit more intense than bloody knuckles. I would convince my opponent to connect knuckles, and on the count of three, we would punch each other's fists as hard as we could. The trick to winning is 1) acting like you felt no pain at all and 2) being incredibly eager to go again. Then one night I went up against Joe, and we were hitting each other's knuckles for what felt like 10 minutes (hard to tell the time when you're so drunk and frustrated), and at some point, I said we're doing permanent damage to our knuckles, and I would like to offer a draw, because it was clear otherwise neither of us would have stopped. He has a weird fleshy permanent fleshy bump on his knuckle now and I had a bad boxer's fracture on my pinky. My pinky knuckle has been about twice the size of the other one, and I think something that connects that knuckle to the rest of my hand also broke, because I have more movement in it. People sensed weakness and challenged me to knuckle busters, because I was quite brazen and braggadocios about it, and I haven't lost since.
When I open my pinky there's almost like a soft click, like it hangs up for a moment, and then fires open. I wasn't able to do rasgueado with all for fingers, until I was on a psychedelic last year and noticed that my strum felt different, and I looked down, and sure enough, that little pinky fella was joining in with the rest of the fingers in unison, keeping rhythm with the rest. I don't think about it anymore, but I'm sure I will when I get old if I don't die trying to get there. Cambodiaaa in three weeks
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Now that finger will have to rest for a while, since the the fingertip is too sensitive to pluck with. I was just able to pull it up the stairs and when I got to the top I thought I would slowly lay the truck flat on the floor and then push the box off of it, but the weight caused it to fall fast and my finger was wrapped under part of the truck that took the weight, so it got squashed even though the nail side went into carpeting on the floor. 
