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RE: Restoring a cracked blanca
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estebanana
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 RE: Restoring a cracked blanca (in reply to Ron.M)
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I think our repairer should get a consensus of opinions from some of the others who do good work, and then take things more slowly. Do tests and more dry fitting. I know you're excited, but just slow down.
My old teacher in the violin shop was fukcing perv. He leered at all the young women coming into the shop. I learned lots of bad social things from him. Anyway when I was in too much of a hurry he would tell me this story:
There was an old bull and a young bull sitting under a tree on top of hill. Down the slope in the meadow there were twenty or so cows eating grasses.
The young bull said to the old bull:
"Hey, let's run as fast as we can and go down there and fukc one of those cows"
The old bull calmly replied: "No, no ,no. let's walk down and fukc them all."
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So whenever I would rush through something, my old mentor, he would look over and roll his eyes and say his euphemism for slow. "Walk down, walk down and fukc them all. " He was a fantastic guy. I learned a lot, but later in college I told this story in a feminism class thinking the irony would be so cool and that I was so hip I would get laughs for being irreverent. Well suffice it to say that was an error of judgment.
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Honestly estebanana, how much would a professional Luthier like yourself estimate a client for doing a full restoration job?
Let's tell the man where he stands, cos I don't have a clue.
I think it looks a wreck myself. Sorry.
I can't give a price without seeing it in person. But since it has that Fishman hole , I would have suggested fixing the cracks and doing a tight cleated up structural job. Then string it up and see how much cosmetic work is merits. It's not a lost cause if you want a player guitar, but for a guitar fix up to sell it's toast.
It is a wreck, but sometimes wrecks end up sounding ok and can make good second guitars, or a guitar to play for dancers who like to kick guitarists. :P)
You can always take a guitar like this and throw a big tantrum in the middle of a show or dance class and dejectedly push it on the floor and pout. Then all the dancers will freak out and get really weird on you and think you're scary. Sounds fun to me :)
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Date Mar. 22 2011 3:32:33
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Ron.M
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From: Scotland
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RE: Restoring a cracked blanca (in reply to M.S.A.)
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I am so tired of these arrogant displays of superiority that you are so typical of.
 ??? Really?
I don't have any superiority to display, so I don't know where you get that from MSA.
I was only expressing my opinion of this guitar, which looked quite an interesting project at first, but the more faults I saw you posting, it seemed a daunting task, probably even for an experienced Luthier with a well lit workshop and all the tools, jigs and clamps and precision measuring devices.
I'm certainly not trying to put you down. Why on earth would I want to do that?
Anyway, good luck with the project and I hope you can get somewhere with it, as the guitar looks like it would have been very nice when it left the Bellido shop.
I know it will take a while, but the fact that I doubt if you will ever be able to make a successful restoration job given your lack of experience or resources should only give you more drive to prove us doubters wrong.
Will be interested in seeing photos of your progress anyway.
cheers,
Ron
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Date Mar. 23 2011 13:53:43
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estebanana
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 RE: Restoring a cracked blanca (in reply to M.S.A.)
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Well before anyone gives you advice you have to agree to listen to the advice and not use super glue. So a better way to do this is to do research first and study crack repair from books and online information. Then after a week or so of study ask how to do experiments and trials with glues, clamps and materials so you can learn how they work hands on.
What you need to do is study, study, study, study and then you will know what questions to ask. As it is now you don't even have good question. When you formulate a good question and prove to the guitar makers you have done some thinking they will be more responsive. If you don't want to study or listen then you have no business touching a guitar to do repair work and that's the truth.
However there is a private property law in most countries which dictates that if you own an art object you have the right to destroy it and so be it. For example if you owned a Vermeer painting you could use it for a dartboard, if you choose to throw darts at a milk maid or a geographer. Or you could even legally use marine epoxy to glue two dozen long black latex dildos so they protrude from Rembrandts Night Watch or even the Danae, if you owned them. You could also roll up an Ingres pencil drawing and use it to swat flies. You theoretically could cut up a Tiepolo canvas with a stiletto at a party as if it were a big cerulean blue sky jig saw puzzle and reassemble it on the side of your windowless rape van; or stick it to your kitchen floor with contact cement and walk on it. You can do all these things with objects you own. But it does not make it right or ethical, it's merely legal.
Go to the Musical Instrument Makers Forum, sign in and use the online archive library to research crack repair online. Go to the library in your city and check out all the books on guitar repair and read them cover to cover.
If you don't want to do those things then you are not a guitar maker or repairer. It's that simple. We all got here because we studied really, really hard, every one of us who makes guitars takes it seriously and we work our asses off to keep up on materials and techniques. We work long hours for less pay that other professions and we generally have more skills. And we have all put in our time.
But if you go to the library and check out books on guitar repair, remember:
WALK DOWN!
WALK DOWN!
WALK DOWN!
WALK DOWN!
that slope in to the meadow of vacas.
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Date Mar. 23 2011 20:08:04
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