estebanana -> RE: Restoring a cracked blanca (Mar. 22 2011 3:32:33)
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I think our repairer should get a consensus of opinions from some of the others who do good work, and then take things more slowly. Do tests and more dry fitting. I know you're excited, but just slow down. My old teacher in the violin shop was fukcing perv. He leered at all the young women coming into the shop. I learned lots of bad social things from him. Anyway when I was in too much of a hurry he would tell me this story: There was an old bull and a young bull sitting under a tree on top of hill. Down the slope in the meadow there were twenty or so cows eating grasses. The young bull said to the old bull: "Hey, let's run as fast as we can and go down there and fukc one of those cows" The old bull calmly replied: "No, no ,no. let's walk down and fukc them all." ______ So whenever I would rush through something, my old mentor, he would look over and roll his eyes and say his euphemism for slow. "Walk down, walk down and fukc them all. " He was a fantastic guy. I learned a lot, but later in college I told this story in a feminism class thinking the irony would be so cool and that I was so hip I would get laughs for being irreverent. Well suffice it to say that was an error of judgment. quote:
Honestly estebanana, how much would a professional Luthier like yourself estimate a client for doing a full restoration job? Let's tell the man where he stands, cos I don't have a clue. I think it looks a wreck myself. Sorry. I can't give a price without seeing it in person. But since it has that Fishman hole , I would have suggested fixing the cracks and doing a tight cleated up structural job. Then string it up and see how much cosmetic work is merits. It's not a lost cause if you want a player guitar, but for a guitar fix up to sell it's toast. It is a wreck, but sometimes wrecks end up sounding ok and can make good second guitars, or a guitar to play for dancers who like to kick guitarists. :P) You can always take a guitar like this and throw a big tantrum in the middle of a show or dance class and dejectedly push it on the floor and pout. Then all the dancers will freak out and get really weird on you and think you're scary. Sounds fun to me :)
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