estebanana -> RE: Fastino Conde 1986 without signature? (Sep. 6 2013 0:45:52)
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Maybe you missed where I announced my new Japan shop is housed in a former salt storage warehouse? Simply building them there imparts the essence of salt and sea. ___________ The salt joke is quite played out and I do actually like Tom. I had an awakening when I came here and looked for a studio to work in. I asked what the building was for when it was built. "Oh" they said, " it was a salt cellar for our family salt supply business, but we sold the business and now we have this building waiting for you." Surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pile would say. This dovetails perfectly with the dream I had while I was dating the Jungian analyst a few years ago: I worked in a shop where Carl Jung himself was a guitar maker and we worked at this long bench like a big picnic table. We were making orange varnish and putting in on violins. One of the classic ways to interpret dreams is to look at the dream a place yourself as every person an thing in the dream an see what it says. So I realized I was Carl Jung and the picnic table meant it was my office. The orange liquid we put on the violins was the blood of Christ and was formulated from a dream recipe taken out of the gnostic gospels that Jung had been interpreting. My conclusion was that I should go forth and seek the holy grail, which we all know is a wooden vessel called A Conde'. But which Conde'? No one knows which Conde' is the holy grail, so guitarists search endlessly to find it trying one Conde' after another. Since my dream has revealed the true nature of the grail I had dedicated myself in secret to learn how to mix the sacred blood orange varnish as a way of supplicating and paying homage to those guitar players who search for the grail without ceasing to have faith that the One Conde' Grail exists and they will find it to save the souls of men. Now you all know I am searching too and that my own guitar making is funding my search. Day job, making Stephen Faulk guitars, the rest of the time, searching for the Conde' Grail. It could be in Japan. You never know, some Japanese player may have been entrusted to bring it here i the 1960's under the supervision of Faustino himself. Which brings me to my next suggestion that we organize the Luthery section into three parts, like the holy trinity: Conde' Grail Search Building and Repair History and Aficion
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