estebanana -> RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (Oct. 17 2013 3:30:48)
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It doesn't matter who starts what, it's just that these threads turn into garbage. The people who post into these things, with these crude jokes, etc. They just diminish themselves as human beings. As somebody trying to make fine instruments, and sell them I would think I personally would not want to be thought of as an unrefined crude human being. Which is what people think when you post things like this thread has contained. The people who don't agree are vocal, however they are probably not so many as people who read these threads and think - This is just stupid. I tend to think my opinions are not in the minority. Seriously, in a forum related to my own business, I'd sure as heck not be posting about "projectile farting", give me a break. Give me a break, you know how much crap I had to take by defending Tom? I'm sick and tired of seeing Blackshear getting knocked around just because his idea is to move to a model of limited edition mass production. Everyone uses this forum to project themselves into the guitar community to sell guitars, and to pretend you're holier than thou because you are hand building and not involved in factory work is absurd if not hypocritical. Most of the people who criticize Tom don't even know how to make a guitar, or if they do they are whining because its unfair or not right he's taking his work to a factory. Or unfair and not right because he's talking about brace tuning again. There's nothing unfair, it seems all out front to me. He's not saying his guitars are Spanish and then having them made in China. He's saying they go through a chain of workers and he engages the process as a designer and expedites his part as a quality control manager. What makes that any different than what other makers such as Kenny Hill have done? So any of you who want to get up off the couch when you are 70 plus years old and reinvent your work like Tom is doing you go for it. And if a little fart joke offends you well then I'm sorry for you. My customer loyalty is strong enough to sustain a fart joke now and then, I'm not worried about it. Tom started this thread to talk about his system of making guitars. I thought about it and decided I needed to change how I respected Tom and his years spent making guitars. I don't agree with everything he says, but so what? Show me someone here who who has not tried to do the same thing and argue and defend his own say of working. What I see is the continuation of efforts to knock him off the Foro by posting off topic things in his thread. Personally I think attacking an older man who has been making guitars since before you were born is the really stinky fart. Got anything better to do with your time? See I don't have to put Tom down to feel superior. At this point in my career I can make friends with whomever I choose and frankly I value the knowledge of the older ones much more than those my own age or younger. Tom has more of a contribution to make than any of his detractors would understand.
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