ernandez R -> RE: Bogdanovich´s method for flamenco guitars (Mar. 27 2020 15:33:07)
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Mango, Exciting times glueing the top and bottom on, it's almost like she is a guitar at this point and becomes alive. Like Prometheus bringing fire to the clay people or perhaps Dr Frankenstine making life from bits and pieces, only we are making this wooden creature with strings, some might say only a tool, but after hours of shaping with our hands, binding here and there into shapes almost human, who could deny there is life once strung up and given voice. I had to laugh once my mind wondered down this road, that we are like gods creating our own creatures, only I began to tally the faults and missteps in this journey we call luthery. There is my great experiment I keep hanging in the shop and dare drag outside in the snowy or sunny, riverside beach or bonfire; my ugly monster with six string who I would name Hubris if said name was less ugly, Segundo if she was less feminine. And while I laugh again at Sr. Torres for naming his... who is it we worship now? I too found myself fiddling with the top before glueing on the back. At some point you have to believe in yourself and the magic of luthiery and all who have gone before who said, this is how it should be. I was told more then a few times that one should stick exactly to a plan but I couldn't even begin, my mind is not wired so, and more then anything, a desire to walk a solitary path, to carve against the grain, to shape almost too thin, dare the wood explode for a tone explosive; is this not what makes us human, or rather super human, pulls us above the mundane with six strings? You are getting close. I feared this point when I was building my fourth, so much time and care invested and one mistake could send it all into the wood stove. I would get trapped: how did I do that last time or is this going to be good enough? I would stop, brew up a cup of tea to get over myself then race through the next step so excited nearing the finish. It's early am, I've been sick for weeks but I was in the shop yesterday for half a day; my list said, clean the shop. I too have a top and bottom ready to glue; waiting patiently for me to bring alive... HR
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