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Post by TKennedy on Dec 22, 2021 18:26:47 GMT -5
Winter is here, a good time to put a kit together. Be it a guitar, B word, violin or a uke. There are kits for everything. Why have the shop and not enjoy it. Build a Gerstner type tool chest, very worthy project and something you'll use for the rest of your life. StewMacGot that in an email the other day The D-18 kit is a decent value. $800, farm out the finish for $400 and I am guessing you'd have a pretty nice instrument for under $1500 and six months of free but fun labor. Easy to say "oh it was just a kit" but they leave most of the really challenging stuff that makes a piece of furniture a musical instrument that sounds and plays well for you to do. Voicing the top, final neck contour, setting the neck, fretboard leveling/fretting/leveling/crowing/ getting the bridge in the right place and gluing, making a good nut and intonated saddle, setup, and the worst one of all finishing if you do it yourself! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I started with Martin kits in the 90's and continue to think they are the best way to get your feet wet in lutherie. If you build a few and the fire is lit then a building course is next. A good one shaves shave years off your learning curve when building from scratch and you get so much more out of it after having the experience of a few kits.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 22, 2021 21:03:25 GMT -5
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Post by Marty on Dec 22, 2021 21:14:12 GMT -5
Well I'm going to settle in with warm cat in my lap and watch a movie. Lately I've been doing Japanese Monster movies, there are a shitload of them. So many that through the evolution of them Godzilla goes from the Bad guy to the Good guy. Tokyo gets flattened so many times I don't see how they could have rebuilt the place between movies.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 22, 2021 21:18:03 GMT -5
OMG, Brandi Carlile doing "River"
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