You check out the "thrift stores" in Honolulu looking for solid koa furniture that you can disassemble and ship home for your stash.
Bob
| Official Luthiers Forum! http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/ |
|
| You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=41241 |
Page 1 of 3 |
| Author: | Doug Balzer [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
...you ensure your vehicles have a tape measure in the glove boxes at all times just in case you come across some interesting stock at the lumber yard. |
|
| Author: | Dave Rickard [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or an obsessed hack guitar |
You check the tap tone of ceder fencing |
|
| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
When going hiking out in the beautiful forests of the Smoky Mountains, you wonder how the grain is in that huge Maple tree off the path over there... |
|
| Author: | Doug Balzer [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
...your "stash" gets better and better and your wardrobe gets older and older. |
|
| Author: | Alex Kleon [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Straining your eyes trying to count growth rings on a popsicle stick, and then doing a deflection test on it. Alex |
|
| Author: | DennisK [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You see an interesting chunk of wood on the ground at the park, and still remember exactly where it is a year later when you come up with a use for it http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=518385#p518385 |
|
| Author: | Chris Pile [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
I keep looking at all that cool wood in antiques and thinking how great it would look as a guitar... |
|
| Author: | Quine [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You spend more time building guitars than playing guitars |
|
| Author: | unkabob [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You check out the "thrift stores" in Honolulu looking for solid koa furniture that you can disassemble and ship home for your stash. Bob
|
|
| Author: | Stuart Gort [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Your bathwater is never the same color. |
|
| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
DennisK wrote: You see an interesting chunk of wood on the ground at the park, and still remember exactly where it is a year later when you come up with a use for it http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=518385#p518385 You are my new hero. |
|
| Author: | D. Ramsey [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Chris Pile wrote: I keep looking at all that cool wood in antiques and thinking how great it would look as a guitar... I know what ya mean this is for sale nearby... 
|
|
| Author: | guitarjtb [ Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
If you can't decide if you want to restore that old mahogany table that your grandmother left you...............or build a guitar with the wood. The guitar sounds great.:>) |
|
| Author: | Tai Fu [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You go outside after a storm looking for fallen trees for potential guitars... |
|
| Author: | ernie [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You walk across the street and check out the pine tree next to the swimming pool and collect over 1 qt worth of resin for homemade resin varnish. |
|
| Author: | Tai Fu [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You plant Dalbergia Niagra in your backyard as "investment". |
|
| Author: | guitarjtb [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You find yourself staring at the lumber at Lowes to see if any of it is quarter sawn. or..... You have more than 1 donut spare tire on your car, but you are headed to the lumber yard to check out their stash. |
|
| Author: | John A [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Filippo Morelli wrote: Doug Balzer wrote: ...you ensure your vehicles have a tape measure in the glove boxes at all times just in case you come across some interesting stock at the lumber yard. Actually, those they have at most lumber yards. Instead, you keep a well sharpened block plane in your glove box so you can check the grain orientation of sealed lumber. Filippo Filippo is right - those that are luthiers or hacks should have the measurements memorized and be able to measure with their fingers or arm lengths. a few lose hairs laid side to side are good for those really precise measurements |
|
| Author: | jfmckenna [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
You have no hair on one of your forearms from testing how sharp your chisels are. |
|
| Author: | WudWerkr [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Every new build you bring in the house is looked at by your wife as "the other woman" ! |
|
| Author: | cecil carroll [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
you look at the 1 3/4 inch thick door to your state senators office in the state capital building and wonder how many guitars you could build with that 140 year old mahogany? cecil |
|
| Author: | A.Hix [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
D. Ramsey wrote: Chris Pile wrote: I keep looking at all that cool wood in antiques and thinking how great it would look as a guitar... I know what ya mean this is for sale nearby... Either buy that right now, or tell me where it is so that I can buy it!!! Ummm.... I think that counts, right? |
|
| Author: | Don Williams [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
Filippo Morelli wrote: Doug Balzer wrote: ...you ensure your vehicles have a tape measure in the glove boxes at all times just in case you come across some interesting stock at the lumber yard. Actually, those they have at most lumber yards. Instead, you keep a well sharpened block plane in your glove box so you can check the grain orientation of sealed lumber. Filippo I used to keep a Dreadnought 1/2 template in the car too... |
|
| Author: | Don Williams [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
I just kept it on the back seat. Or in the trunk. Or on the floor somewhere. I used to buy a lot of wood... |
|
| Author: | WudWerkr [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: You might be a luthier if... (or a hack guitar builder) |
cecil carroll wrote: you look at the 1 3/4 inch thick door to your state senators office in the state capital building and wonder how many guitars you could build with that 140 year old mahogany? cecil If you look at same Door and wonder if it is REALLY Mahogany and if he is in Compliance with Cites/lacey |
|
| Page 1 of 3 | All times are UTC - 5 hours |
| Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com/ |
|