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Ken

I assume you mean "Hesh in 50 years". good one.

There is an "Edit" button.

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Waddy

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Neat video Ken. It does make you wonder what Hesh is going to do with all his guitars.

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Joe Breault
Merrimack, NH
Perpetual novice

What a great video.
I love the line at the end: "I don't like money as much as I like violins"

Outstanding Ken - I really enjoyed that!!!

Rashid is a very cool guy and his violins sounded superb too. And, once he makes one he never changes the strings either........

I love the part about the foundation with the stipulation that the violins can't be sold for 30 years in order to give the mistakes that Rashid may have made time to age and perhaps no longer be mistakes. Says a lot for the potential benefits as well as detriments of time - the one variable in our own instrument making that we will never be able to control - nor should we try.

Thanks Ken!!!!

That was a very good video ! Thanks Ken....

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

To me a chance to know someone such as this would be just as exciting as a chance to meet Alan Carruth, Loyd Loar, James D' Aquisto, Rick Turner, Ervin Somogyi. I have a Feeling they all posses/possesed a deep love of thier craft. I have a feeling there are some things I could learn from Hesh, Brock and many others here also though..

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"It's a Tone Faerie thing"
"Da goal is to sharpen ur wit as well as ye Sgian Dubh"
"Sippin Loch Dhu @Black lake" ,Kirby O...

Nah!

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Waddy

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The man has a deep love for the feel of wood in his hands. It's sad to think that time is stealing his gift to craft such beautiful instruments. What a wise man. He stipulates that his violins will not be sold until 30 years after his death, so his errors will have time to age. Wow, he loves every part about his craft. It would indeed be an honor to hang out with him and watch him shape a hunk of wood into a something that is alive. He has forgot more than I'll know. He's doing it the old timey way.

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"After forty-nine years of violin building, I have decided that the search for a varnish is similar to the fox hunt. The fun is in the hunt."
Jack Batts Maker and Repairer of Fine Violins

Kirby buddy you are making a bunch of us feel as old as Waddy................

Love ya Waddy!!!!

Where's me cane & me hearin aid?

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Waddy

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I saw the subject and thought, "Hesh is 50? Hey that happened YEARS ago!"

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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Pat my friend would you like to be Photoshopped??????

Hesh I do not want to start a debate and take away from the real subject of this thread.

So I ask that the discussion not head this direction, just keep an open mind about the Tone Faeries because for me this is a intuitive indefensible thing....

"Says a lot for the potential benefits as well as detriments of time - the one variable in our own instrument making that we will never be able to control - nor should we try."

Hesh my gut says this is just what baking a top aims to do...

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"It's a Tone Faerie thing"
"Da goal is to sharpen ur wit as well as ye Sgian Dubh"
"Sippin Loch Dhu @Black lake" ,Kirby O...

Kirby I'm not going to argue with you bro and you have a good point there - so I'm a hippocrate - big deal.......

Hundreds of years from now, archeologists will be excavating a giant wooden burial mound in Michigan trying to study what life was like in the late-20th/early-21st century and they find Hesh's mummified remains entombed by his own handy work by the perfect 45% Rh humidity!

I can see the museum displays now- Hesh the Luthier King on Display Now(and his little dog Sony)!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

I have a feeling they would build a shrine and people would bring their instruments there in order to help give them mojo.

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"It's a Tone Faerie thing"
"Da goal is to sharpen ur wit as well as ye Sgian Dubh"
"Sippin Loch Dhu @Black lake" ,Kirby O...

Geeze now I am a mummified turd........

One more sash weight! With guitars!

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Waddy

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Waddy that is hysterical!!!!!! The worst part is that I am old enough to know what a sash weight is/was..........

Ops, I did mean in 50 years.

Where is the edit button, I can't find it.

Okay I do see it now but only on this post not the first one, I guess I can't edit the first post.

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Ken

I think it goes away after another post plus about 20 minutes or so.

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Waddy

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funny thing about human nature. If you look at 0:58 on the video you will see his notebook where he graded each of his violins. The first one was given a C and almost all the rest were A. In fact some of them were so good he needed to give them A++... we all think our creations sound great, don't we? I think you'd have to be a real lover of violins to make so many instruments just to keep them. The one played in the video sounded pretty good to me!

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Ken