hahaha...Charlie, i think you'll be disappointed with the results of pickin' on Boaz' brains.
not to say he is secretive or anything like that,nope...
i think it was Torres, who's quoted for saying something like "the only thing that counts is the distance between my thumb and index finger" , and Boaz, is truely that type of builder.
very intuitive...
he can teach you all about the "workmanship" but very little about the "craftmanship", if you know what i mean.
from my long hours of talking to him, what i gathered is that the clarita is pretty far off the "pure" kasha design(though surely more kasha than Torres), and that he arrived at the "clarita" design using intuiton and experience but not the kind of deep scientific understanding that somebody like Mr.Carruth posseses.
even when i asked him about the kasha design, he suggested i e mail Gila Eban, as he feels she grasps the ideas behind the design far better than he does.
luthier Rene Baarslag once said about a course he had given at Charles Fox' school: "the student can see me building a guitar, but 70% of what i'm doing, they can't really see" (not word for word).
it's very appropriate for Boaz' type of work too.
i'll be meeting him again on friday, if there's anything word showing, i'll take pics, and if theres anything specific you'd like to ask, PM me.
o.k.
i have officially hijacked my own thread!
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