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RE: Building two under influence of a 1973 Sobrinos de Esteso
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ernandez R
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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It's the damn coved or 2020 or somthing in the air... I've had some issues last few monthes. Sold my airplane last month, just sold the floats for it yesterday, flying was the soul of my life, literal wings, life changes as do needs and prioriteas, just recall that no mater how bad it seems, how ugly humanity becomes, we have it better then centuries past and our lifestyle may not be financially the one percent we really are living a dream. We are not picking through a trash heap for our food or living in fear of a crystalnock event. We are the chosen ones in so many ways. We can get online and bitch about anything or nothing more padantic then what is flamenco, what strings should I use, or what nomanclature for a cord progression, all the while I'm thinking no gattanao is his right mind would be doing this, most scratching a life out of meager means, beating an anvil all day on a bowl of beans, as a child I turned the bellows for my ferrior father, fill up on rice and beans he would half joke at the dinner table. BTW: Damn if I didn't make the best pot of moose rib bone beans the other night... Food of my people! Had a few shouting matches with the boss which is not somthing ether of use do, then I feel too guilty to go out into the shop to work on guitars, I put my head down and go through my boring as F physical therapy routine for hours, searching and searching for my F'n bootstraps... No one can do it but ourselves... I'm almost there. Finished up dinner and I'm dieing to get out and start a set of canary yellow teak pegs for my andulsian themed parlor, I've got the woods for my next set of flamenco run through the drum sander, just need to candle the seams and start gluing the five piece backs and three piece sides, and still no idea how I'm going to rosette them. Olé! Screw em Stephan, show us what you got, and screw that snob, build him the best guitar you have and when he comes over to pick him up, let him play it, and when he is ready to leave, tear up his check and tell him to F off, tell him he is not worthy of a Faulk guitar, tell him there is too much honor in what you build to share with a bitch, and when you sit down at your meager dinner, recall that there is no shame in warm pot of beans. HR
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Date Jan. 15 2021 3:47:43
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BarkellWH
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to RobF)
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Take the high road, Stephen, you know you have to. This too shall pass. I second Rob's advice, Stephen. Take the high road. You don't want to bring yourself down to the level of the lowest common denominator. By exhibiting grace in the face of ignorance, you demonstrate that you're the better man. This promises to be a rainy Friday evening, and I plan to enjoy a copita of jerez in front of the fireplace. Bill
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Date Jan. 15 2021 22:02:40
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estebanana
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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A maroon, or a macaroon. Yes, I tolerated a lot of nonsense. Which is why I stopped working on it until I can decide to withdraw from the commission. It’s not like I want to, but I can see he’s the type of person that will not be happy and I don’t know if it’s worth being on the after sale receiving end of that chatter. You can tell a customer that they got what they paid for, but they might not agree. I had a guy like this in 2014 and it dragged on for two years of him being a bitter piece of $hit over a guitar he finally sold. Funny story, Casey on the foro bought it and traded it back to me in part for a new guitar. I have the 2014 guitar and there’s nothing wrong with it, I use it to teach my guitar class. I suppose I should just finish this one and get paid, then cut off the communication. But this kind of stuff just totally screws up the flow of my shop projects, you have to break stride and change your work path. If I have to change my work path, which instruments are at which stages of completion, for one person that person is wasting my time.
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Date Jan. 16 2021 4:56:47
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ernandez R
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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I'm glad a few of you have been recommended taking the high road, eating crow can taste like **** even with a good pot of beans. Funny, Sometimes I get hung up when I can't make somthing good enough for my own standards. So there it sits unfinished and the guilt builds up... If I'm lucky somthing shakes me out of it or I find a way to start over, one day a couple years ago I was trying to trim out an old log cabin and was going mad cause there was not a square or plumb edge to be found, I was installing wainscoting, anyway one day as I was putting my glasses into my work shirt pocket I stopped, put them back on my desk in the house and walked out the door. Everyone loves the cabin and only I can see the trim corners and edges are not quite true, you know, when I'm wearing my glasses. Funny, I was about a year into my building guitar adventure when I realized I needed to wear my glasses at all times... Not funny, I'm stuck on a shellac top that's not good enough for me. I got some crud in my munuca and made two swearly scratches, might have been a fold that got in there as I was using less oil. I know the whole f'n thing needs to be sanded back, a few areas of pits and what might be a fingernail dent when the lady it is for was playing it in the white. Must Wear Glasses... The darn thing won't fix itself, yesterday I went and did too much outside and pissed off my foot so now I'm off it for a day or two... Fun times. Think I'll do some retail therapy, order up some different shellac to play with, fix up another bowl of moose rib red beans, we were out of pintos, and who knows, it's inly 3:13pm, but a glass of black box cab sounds about right ;) HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor. www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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Date Jan. 19 2021 0:15:38
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ernandez R
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RE: Building two under influence of ... (in reply to estebanana)
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I'm not really sure... I made my way to a point where I've come to trust putting on the finish sans bridge, on my 23" parlors anyway, looking forward to having not to battle around the edge of the bridge. Think the top for me is just a mind game, my backs and sides, even around the neck joint look good. If there are ten ways to bugger up the top I've done it, if there are twenty... Since I scratched up the top I mentioned up thread I've let her sit. Pretty sure I'm going to get medieval on her with some 600 and start again... Long time ago I figured out how important it was to watch the hands and listen to the voice, was a airplane fabric covering dvd with a new non organic solvent process. The old guy would do ten things with his hands his mouth didn't have time to explain. Was a great way to cure insomnia too ;), got to the point I would watch at 4x speed just to see how he conquered problem areas. Think it would be great to have a time laps of of the full deal, I've watched a lot of FP vids and gleaned some magic here and there but all were missing somthing. Guess that somthing was that stickiness your palm gets as you tap the pad on it, or that smell released when you are working the finish hard, or that grind to a right now **** when the pad sticks cause you didn't press hard enough or put enough muscle into it. This last goaround I took some whip tips from my CA kit and pushed them into the backside of the spout of my shellac and alcohol bottles to really be carful and keep track of each drop of fluid. Tell us more about the board you use to rub your pad after charging it please. First time I've seen this. HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor. www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars
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