Guest -> RE: Fast Guitars? (Apr. 4 2004 7:51:39)
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>A luthier with power tools could make 1 guitar a week.< Depending on the amount of power tools, he/she can make more, BUT IMHO, if you want to make good instruments, you´ll need time to think things over. A good guitar is not just pieces of wood glued together with strings on. The difference in two soundboards, that look and weigh almost the same, can be very different, and might even need two different bracing patterns. I´m on number 3, and I use some 250 hours including finish (I think). This I can probably do in around 200 hours with more experience. But I´m not going to even try to do it faster than that, because I know that I´ll lose the point. Making good instruments is a lifestyle, kinda obsession, and that´s what makes it interesting. You know to get away from this idea of messuring everything in values as stupid as money and time, and instead living a value called quality. That´s what life should be about!!!! The sun is shining on the mountain tops outside Granada. It´s sunday, it´s extremely silent. I´m going upstairs to prepare a back for gluing, and maybe play a bit of bulerías on the new guitar I strung up yesterday (very nice, I´ll post a foto soon) Life is beautifull. Anders
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