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estebanana -> It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:26:35)

Do you think this is a fukcing library? What are you up to?



malakka -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:31:22)

Thinking about buying one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Blanca-Flamenco-Guitar-Chinese-Sample-/190532079537?pt=Guitar&hash=item2c5c98cfb1



estebanana -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:33:57)

That thing looks like it would make a nice gravy boat at Thanksgiving dinner.



estebanana -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:36:01)

I'm trying to sink that deleted thread from the spammer. It's annoying, but probably not as annoying as me.



ralexander -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:40:44)

mmm gravy



malakka -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:40:45)

Maybe the wood should have been used to make kuaizi.[8D]



estebanana -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:54:34)

what's a kuaizi?



malakka -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 18:59:52)

quote:

what's a kuaizi?


http://www.chinavista.com/experience/chopstick/kuaizi.html



estebanana -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 19:08:36)

oh riiight. Well it might have been a better use of the ebony, but I wonder if the silica in ebony is good for you to eat.

Now I know what to do with all the left over cut off tapered slices of ebony fingerboard. Make them into kuaizi and sell them as luthier crafted chop sticks. Paco de Lucia uses them when he eats Chinese and it makes your picado faster and most dexterous.



Estevan -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 19:32:41)

quote:

Well it might have been a better use of the ebony, but I wonder if the silica in ebony is good for you to eat.

It's good for your nails. They say.



malakka -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 19:37:51)

You can also add inlays and really make them special. Of course you will have be competitive in your pricing - you will have to really emphasize the local artisan aspect.

Start a blog like this one:

http://blog.qualitychopsticks.com/



malakka -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 19:38:59)

I don't know what's worse - this thread or the spam thread you were working to send down the list. [:D]



estebanana -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 11 2011 20:01:54)

M. You have steered the content of this thread [:D]



Anders Eliasson -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 12 2011 8:17:55)

I prefer quietness to this kind of threads. I´m passing through a moment of my life where quietness is something very possitive[&:]



Randy Reynolds -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 12 2011 14:38:04)

Recently I visited the shop of a luthier who passed away about a month ago. His nephew was selling his stuff for the family.

As it turns out this fellow was a former inventory control manager in Silicon Valley and had made a fair amount of money and so six years ago he decided to become a guitarmaker up in the mountains of Colorado. Sounds Ok so far but the problem was that he must have suffered from an obsessive/compulsive disorder because he kept buying exotic lumber over and over till he had no place left to store it even after building additions to his shop, buying storage buildings and so on. Ironically everything was barcoded as to type and location but the nephew had no access to the computer that would have helped to price and find the woods. Very little of the wood was of high quality or usable except perhaps in electric guitars.

This fellow had purchased well over 1000 clamps and like the wood most of them were junk. He had a CNC mill, Laguna bandsaw and many other expensive tools that actually were of proper quality so perhaps he did know about that.

The shop was located in a very remote location and he would have worked there alone ordering clamps and lumber day after day and storing them everywhere all properly barcoded. Could be he went stir crazy up there spending his money to no productive end.

I guess the moral of the story is that guitarmakers can suffer all manner of adjustment issues. In the end you have to keep your head just as sharp as your chisels and that's not easy when you work alone. Without raising the angst again how luthiers can do that is an interesting dilema that I don't have the answers to....anyone?



Richard Jernigan -> RE: It's kind of quiet (May 12 2011 16:34:04)

In 1991 I was in Madrid for a week or two looking for a good classical guitar before I moved to a tiny island in the Central Pacific. I visited Bernabe, Contreras, Manzanero, Rozas, Ramirez and Vicente Camacho. All except Camacho had shops with counters, attendants, etc. Camacho was alone in his workshop. He seemed inclined to converse.

Camacho told me he was the only apprentice of Modesto Borreguero, one of Manuel Ramirez' three famous oficiales. He talked a little about Borreguero. I asked Camacho whether he had any apprentices.

"No tengo ningún discípulo," he replied. "Trabajo aquí solo, como San Jose."

He seemed a bit wistful.

RNJ



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