Official Luthiers Forum!

...they try to lure me back in.

Received these tantalizing images today from the FORMER boss with a note promising that all of this could be mine, if only I would come back...

Decisions, decisions...







I know! Super-tempting!

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A constellation only takes shape when one maps the whole.
- Beth Brower

That is the deepest nut slot I've ever seen.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

A very tempting offer I'm sure....... (run scrrrrreaming emoticon)

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Not much neck left on that, good thing it's laminated. I'd go hide somewhere

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

What is the story on how that happened?

My guess is that someone 'fixed' it.

I have seen one just like this I had to replace the neck

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

Well whether or not you return to the guitar job Woodie, I think I speak for the others here that we have always appreciated your informed input.

Good Luck Dave

Well, think of it this way: If nobody messed up guitars, then repair people would not have jobs. That's the attitude I have to keep when I do my own day job. Be thankful for those who make mistakes; we get paid to clean them up.

I also appreciate the razor sharp edge of the nut protruding past the fretboard.....

He was a real hot player and needed the air gap to cool the strings. Don't you guys know anything?

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!

As long as we're piling on - how about the huge space at the edge of the fretboard to the low E string

Ed M

Wood is softer than bone. It was easier to file the neck slot than to file the nut blank. Any apprentice can tell you that.

Also notice that little crack in the wood where the bottom of the nut sits - I've heard that a little "crack" is almost as addictive as guitar building.
Nice to see you posting again, Woodie!

Looks like a feature to me. Pretty tasty.

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

Hey Woodie I hope that you are doing great and staying safe.

Thanks to all for the ear-to-ear grin...so appreciated in these times which can be less-than-joy-filled for some. Doing well - still planning a new shop, but on hold until my current adventure is complete.

I know we have had some threads on the butchery that is horrible repair work, but after seeing the 'repair' inflicted on this Lowden in person yesterday, I still cannot fathom how a cracked head-stock became a deeply compromised neck at the hands of someone claiming to be a repair person. The massive ebony cross-grain shim under that huge chunk of bone is the (dis)grace note setting this person's work apart from all other ham-handed practitioners of luthieristical mayhem.

All that aside, I am certain there is a mother somewhere crowing to friends and relations about the bottomless set of skills possessed by her very special, very talented luthier-child. We just cannot help ourselves.

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A constellation only takes shape when one maps the whole.
- Beth Brower

With your permission I'd like to steal that phrase.
But first I have to figure out how to pronounce "luthieristical"

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Say what you do, Do what you say.

It rhymes with Luthier Mystical. I think.