Hello - just joined
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:27 pm
Looks like the last newbie here (2020) might have considerable experience now.
A lot has happened since 2020...I bought Hurd's Left-Brained Lutherie end of 2020 to read while I had 'The Plague'...directly from him.
I say I don't have time to practice guitar, so I might as well not have to r to build either, & started collecting books & DVD's.
I bought my first guitar in '86 while studying saxophone. I sold the horns to pay off credit card bills (made a profit on those), but I tend to keep the string instruments, all of them.
I am still in my mid 60's, not sure when retirement looms ahead. My background d is in electronics but did woodworking on high school decades ago. So I hoard pieces of wood with nice tap tones.
I gave away most of my cigar boxes...I have really never heard a cigar box guitar I liked, and have been disappointed cigar stores only sell bodies and not necks. Some day I'll build a neck.
I will be posting some questions about a worthless (no name, splits in top & back & confirmed worthless) student classical guitar from Germany to the US in the 1930's that has an interesting historical aspect...a tapered fingerboard like (if I read my history correctly) a Stauffer 'after Legnani' model I think C.F. Martin was also inspired by. My questions will be leaning toward using that guitar for incremental repairs instead of starting from scratch on a new build. it was stored in a canvas bag in the crawl space of a Michigan basement for many years.
I have built some partscasters, own a couple archtop guitars, and have an obsession (on & off) with polymer ribbon piezo sensors. I built a couple pickups for violin and started one for double bass.
I study music theory as a (weird?) hobby to keep from getting frustrated with guitar. I think that the better I know the neck, the easier it will be to pick up where I left off with guitar. I still don't know which end of the guitar goes in my mouth (saxophones are gone). I may never understand alternate tunings until I actual have some hands-on chops instead of theoretical.
I have a problem finishing projects, as I get distracted my new ones. But I type well and have a sense of humor, even if it is unrecognizable to some.
Another project is intonating a purchased baritone uke sort-of converted to a short tenor guitar (steel strings with same total tension). Turns out the nut is too far from the first fret (took some help to figure that out-almost ended my amateur luthiery interests early on).
Another is a hammered hard-drive-o-phone. I have tuned 5 hard drive chasses (aluminum) chromatically and needed a break from it. I need to actually mount some & confirm they still resonate and that their intonation is ok or can be fixed if they shift. Since I started that I discovered the cimbalom, so maybe this isn't as crazy an idea as it seems.
Thanks for reading (those of you who are still awake).
Murray Leshner
Holland MI
A lot has happened since 2020...I bought Hurd's Left-Brained Lutherie end of 2020 to read while I had 'The Plague'...directly from him.
I say I don't have time to practice guitar, so I might as well not have to r to build either, & started collecting books & DVD's.
I bought my first guitar in '86 while studying saxophone. I sold the horns to pay off credit card bills (made a profit on those), but I tend to keep the string instruments, all of them.
I am still in my mid 60's, not sure when retirement looms ahead. My background d is in electronics but did woodworking on high school decades ago. So I hoard pieces of wood with nice tap tones.
I gave away most of my cigar boxes...I have really never heard a cigar box guitar I liked, and have been disappointed cigar stores only sell bodies and not necks. Some day I'll build a neck.
I will be posting some questions about a worthless (no name, splits in top & back & confirmed worthless) student classical guitar from Germany to the US in the 1930's that has an interesting historical aspect...a tapered fingerboard like (if I read my history correctly) a Stauffer 'after Legnani' model I think C.F. Martin was also inspired by. My questions will be leaning toward using that guitar for incremental repairs instead of starting from scratch on a new build. it was stored in a canvas bag in the crawl space of a Michigan basement for many years.
I have built some partscasters, own a couple archtop guitars, and have an obsession (on & off) with polymer ribbon piezo sensors. I built a couple pickups for violin and started one for double bass.
I study music theory as a (weird?) hobby to keep from getting frustrated with guitar. I think that the better I know the neck, the easier it will be to pick up where I left off with guitar. I still don't know which end of the guitar goes in my mouth (saxophones are gone). I may never understand alternate tunings until I actual have some hands-on chops instead of theoretical.
I have a problem finishing projects, as I get distracted my new ones. But I type well and have a sense of humor, even if it is unrecognizable to some.
Another project is intonating a purchased baritone uke sort-of converted to a short tenor guitar (steel strings with same total tension). Turns out the nut is too far from the first fret (took some help to figure that out-almost ended my amateur luthiery interests early on).
Another is a hammered hard-drive-o-phone. I have tuned 5 hard drive chasses (aluminum) chromatically and needed a break from it. I need to actually mount some & confirm they still resonate and that their intonation is ok or can be fixed if they shift. Since I started that I discovered the cimbalom, so maybe this isn't as crazy an idea as it seems.
Thanks for reading (those of you who are still awake).
Murray Leshner
Holland MI