Thoughts for today

[SamanthaCay]

Oh yeah I forgot you could discuss that over there, idk though I kinda like that politics and religion are banned here as I find it's two things that I generally just don't care to talk about all that often, that and it keeps us more civil with each other.

 

[slobake]

Oh yeah I forgot you could discuss that over there, idk though I kinda like that politics and religion are banned here as I find it's two things that I generally just don't care to talk about all that often, that and it keeps us more civil with each other.

Yup you are right but you know how us trouble makers are. Say isn't that some Jehova's witnesses ringing your doorbell?
Just kidding

 

[bachlover]

What it feels like to have love under the fingers.
Longing for more, creation of more than an object.
Walking mile after mile for one single perfect inch.
I give my years to you my love.
My life is but a reflection of you
I am just a messenger of your glorious voice, a wind upon your string.
Your voice ringing throughout me till the very end.

I've been infatuated with guitars all my life. When I was a teenager I started building them and have been attached at the hip every sense.
I've tried so hard in my life to do so many other things, all in the name of simply scraping by yet it all has felt so inexplicably wrong. Being a luthier is a labor of love they say, however I don't see it that way, rather just as love. There is no labor, only a blissful journey to create yet another beautiful guitar.

I'm transgender, and that in conjunction with my passion that I can't seem to let go of even for a day I feel have met a great deal of trouble.
My family has abandoned me, I've lost jobs, housing and even been denied a chance at going to college. The last decade has been unbelievably troubling for me yet also unbelievably beautiful as throughout I have continued against all adversity to do what was meant for me.
Without a shred of doubt I am a guitar maker through thick and thin. It's funny that some of my hardest times have produced some of my greatest breakthroughs simply out of my will to continue. There has been so much that I could never afford that I simply had to create. This is truly beautiful to me and it's the sole reason that I live regret free despite my difficulties.

Still today I find myself troubled in many ways, in what most would probably consider the bottom. I am poor, technically homeless and in a world of debt, but I am in love, happy and free. I am proud of what I have accomplished and too of where I head.

It's a true blessing to know in every waking moment of life what you are meant to accomplish. I hope I may have caused some small twinkle in your eye a moment of inspiration to love and perhaps follow your own dreams in what capacity you feel is natural.

I hope to some day see bigger and better things, to have financial stability, a place to do my work, ways to provide for those I love and inspire as many wonderful musicians as I can.

Pardon the hijacking of your thread, but I'm like the proud grandpa that want to show off and brag about his grandkid with this. If you haven't seen it yet it should be of interest to your luterianistic qualities. haha. I liked it so much with the natural veneers, that I decided to oil/wax instead of paint it and managed to save $1000 at the same time! I doubt that Steve would've put the passion he felt with this the same way you did, but I KNOW he felt it!

Rozitis Custom 6 Fretless Build | TalkBass.com

 

[SamanthaCay]

Pardon the hijacking of your thread, but I'm like the proud grandpa that want to show off and brag about his grandkid with this. If you haven't seen it yet it should be of interest to your luterianistic qualities. haha. I liked it so much with the natural veneers, that I decided to oil/wax instead of paint it and managed to save $1000 at the same time! I doubt that Steve would've put the passion he felt with this the same way you did, but I KNOW he felt it!

Rozitis Custom 6 Fretless Build | TalkBass.com

Neat, I worked on an alembic like the one you got your design from and liked it quite a bit. I'll look forward to seeing that thing finished. Also I'm curios what he did with those rather large body cut offs.

 

[Funk$tar]

What it feels like to have love under the fingers.
Longing for more, creation of more than an object.
Walking mile after mile for one single perfect inch.
I give my years to you my love.
My life is but a reflection of you
I am just a messenger of your glorious voice, a wind upon your string.
Your voice ringing throughout me till the very end.

I've been infatuated with guitars all my life. When I was a teenager I started building them and have been attached at the hip every sense.
I've tried so hard in my life to do so many other things, all in the name of simply scraping by yet it all has felt so inexplicably wrong. Being a luthier is a labor of love they say, however I don't see it that way, rather just as love. There is no labor, only a blissful journey to create yet another beautiful guitar.

I'm transgender, and that in conjunction with my passion that I can't seem to let go of even for a day I feel have met a great deal of trouble.
My family has abandoned me, I've lost jobs, housing and even been denied a chance at going to college. The last decade has been unbelievably troubling for me yet also unbelievably beautiful as throughout I have continued against all adversity to do what was meant for me.
Without a shred of doubt I am a guitar maker through thick and thin. It's funny that some of my hardest times have produced some of my greatest breakthroughs simply out of my will to continue. There has been so much that I could never afford that I simply had to create. This is truly beautiful to me and it's the sole reason that I live regret free despite my difficulties.

Still today I find myself troubled in many ways, in what most would probably consider the bottom. I am poor, technically homeless and in a world of debt, but I am in love, happy and free. I am proud of what I have accomplished and too of where I head.

It's a true blessing to know in every waking moment of life what you are meant to accomplish. I hope I may have caused some small twinkle in your eye a moment of inspiration to love and perhaps follow your own dreams in what capacity you feel is natural.

I hope to some day see bigger and better things, to have financial stability, a place to do my work, ways to provide for those I love and inspire as many wonderful musicians as I can.

What you don't know is that you already have inspired me! lol
But just keep your head up, please keep your head up, because at the end of the day all you have is yourself. I'm still learning to get over my depression and anxiety (just went to the hospital Thursday because of a very bad panic attack), but the things that help me could be the smallestt of things like when someone says hello or smiles at me, or even when i learn a new song on bass. I am also poor as well, always have been, but the more I pray and think positive, the more positive I get. Just last week a man contacted me on here about giving me his bass guitar for free!!! I thought it was a scam, but it wasn't, he just believed that I had a bright future and wanted to make sure I keep on the right path. He awarded me with my first Fender, but it's not the bass that I really am happy about, it's the fact that someone who I don't even know cares for me that much and wants to help. Right now the world is going through a lot, but it's nice to think that good people like that man exist! So please know your worth and just how special you are, that things will get better with time. There's actually this quote by the great gospel singer Marvin Sapp in which he states, " God takes away something you never expected losing, but God will replace it with something you never imagined you could have." Sorry if you don't believe in him, but what I'm trying to say is that we gotta wait for things to get better, but it'll be worth it in the end. Take care and I hope all the best!

 

[SamanthaCay]

What you don't know is that you already have inspired me! lol
But just keep your head up, please keep your head up, because at the end of the day all you have is yourself. I'm still learning to get over my depression and anxiety (just went to the hospital Thursday because of a very bad panic attack), but the things that help me could be the smallestt of things like when someone says hello or smiles at me, or even when i learn a new song on bass. I am also poor as well, always have been, but the more I pray and think positive, the more positive I get. Just last week a man contacted me on here about giving me his bass guitar for free!!! I thought it was a scam, but it wasn't, he just believed that I had a bright future and wanted to make sure I keep on the right path. He awarded me with my first Fender, but it's not the bass that I really am happy about, it's the fact that someone who I don't even know cares for me that much and wants to help. Right now the world is going through a lot, but it's nice to think that good people like that man exist! So please know your worth and just how special you are, that things will get better with time. There's actually this quote by the great gospel singer Marvin Sapp in which he states, " God takes away something you never expected losing, but God will replace it with something you never imagined you could have." Sorry if you don't believe in him, but what I'm trying to say is that we gotta wait for things to get better, but it'll be worth it in the end. Take care and I hope all the best!

Free guitars are the s***! I've been gifted a few broken ones, one whole one, and one that I won in a raffle once. I've also given a few away and that was actually pretty awesome.
The neck on Muddy Mudskipper was gifted to me from another luthier.
I love that dam near all the luthiers that I have met have all been super generous in this way, "Oh what that old thing, yeah I haven't touched that in years, you would do what? oh hell just take it".

 

[Funky Ghost]

My favorite thread to lurk in is Lutheir's Corner. Those folks are a very generous, extremely talented bunch.

Hope you're having a great day. Even if you're not, keep smiling, it makes folks wonder what you're up to

 

[Clark Dark]

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.".... Jimmy Valvano

 

[pacojas]

@SamanthaCay has always been one of my favorite posters. she is a strong person and an inspiration to outcasts like myself. i am the straight version of the OP!
i play music at the risk of everything. i have to. i can do a million things, but i choose BASS! i hear ya, girl

 

[slobake]

@SamanthaCay has always been one of my favorite posters. she is a strong person and an inspiration to outcasts like myself. i am the straight version of the OP!
i play music at the risk of everything. i have to. i can do a million things, but i choose BASS! i hear ya, girl

Samantha Cay for President! Let's go all the way (to the Whitehouse) with Samanta Cay!

 

[bachlover]

Neat, I worked on an alembic like the one you got your design from and liked it quite a bit. I'll look forward to seeing that thing finished. Also I'm curios what he did with those rather large body cut offs.

Christmas ornaments.

 

[SamanthaCay]

Christmas ornaments.

Nicest Christmas ornaments ever.

Samantha Cay for President! Let's go all the way (to the Whitehouse) with Samanta Cay!

Will I actually have to work for this and also will there be free meals during my stay?

 

[slobake]

Nicest Christmas ornaments ever.

Will I actually have to work for this and also will there be free meals during my stay?

Work? Nah, just get the vice president to do it all. Hey, don't be looking at me now. Free meals too all cooked by a ex CIA agent who once knew Julia Child.

 

[5StringBlues]

^ save the liver!




Hang in there Sammie.

The past four years have been the darkest for me.



But I think I 'm coming out of it slowly and actually seeing the light as it really is finally.

 

[slobake]

It would be really cool to have a bass playing luthier for president who won't talk about politics. Hoo boy what a relief that would be. You also have to promise never to sign a treaty with anyone named Racsboloton.

 

[5StringBlues]

Here's a thought for the day.



Today I had to go downtown (Houston) for 8am jury duty. 4 or 5 am is my usual bedtime.


When I got there and checked in I realized that my date was JULY 29th and not June 29th , as I had thought.


In the past I would have been upset and called myself stupid. Instead I marveled at what a serious goof I can be at times, had breakfast, and went home to bed.

 

[Mktrat]

Here's a thought for the day.



Today I had to go downtown (Houston) for 8am jury duty. 4 or 5 am is my usual bedtime.


When I got there and checked in I realized that my date was JULY 29th and not June 29th , as I had thought.


In the past I would have been upset and called myself stupid. Instead I marveled at what a serious goof I can be at times, had breakfast, and went home to bed.

Did you use your blinker? I think you should have when you turned that corner.

WAY TO GO!! Find the good in your goof. I have discovered the same recently and my outlook is much happier.

 

[bachlover]

It would be really cool to have a bass playing luthier for president who won't talk about politics. Hoo boy what a relief that would be. You also have to promise never to sign a treaty with anyone named Racsboloton.

hahaha - A president that doesn't discuss politics? I like that. It reminds me of a quote from somebody who said they liked the Anglican church because it interferes neither with a man's politics or religion.

 

[bachlover]

Here's a thought for the day.



Today I had to go downtown (Houston) for 8am jury duty. 4 or 5 am is my usual bedtime.


When I got there and checked in I realized that my date was JULY 29th and not June 29th , as I had thought.


In the past I would have been upset and called myself stupid. Instead I marveled at what a serious goof I can be at times, had breakfast, and went home to bed.

I\m glad you posted this as it made me think of a bonehead move I made yesterday. It was the 1st thing I though of this a.m. and I would've just buried it and not thought more of it (well.....probably not really). I thought right away about posting it when I read your post, and the more I though about it, the funnier it seemed (and typically me in a way I can laugh at - all "huffy and slighted). I'm a recovering alcoholic, and one of the main reasons that I drank was that I always thought I was "stupid" and that I didn't measure up in pretty well every way to everybody else, so evolving from that to the point where I can laugh at myself is one of the key elements of my recovery.

I had to change out the electrical outlet in my bathroom which was built in '71 and so didn't have the plug with the kill switch. As a result of this I had to buy bigger faceplates that would accommodate the bigger plug as well. The screws that I have didn't have a big enough head to hold the new plate in, so I went to the Rona down the street and spent my time huffing, puffing, and muttering not so much under my breath that these big chains never have anyone around to help when I couldn't find the screw with a big enough head. I left snarling over my shoulder to the nice girl who said goodbye that they should have more people on the floor to help the needy lol. Good thing they didn't! I drove over to Home depot, and when I asked the greeter at the door where the fasteners are and what I needed, he looked at me kinda funny and said "why don't you just use a washer?" I'm no Hank Hill I guess.

 

[Funky Ghost]

I saw the most epic fail of a corporate email this morning. They meant to send a rather bitchy email to a confidant and instead sent it to the entire company.

Their career deprivation light is so bright it looks like another sun at this point.

It's so difficult being a natural born smart ass and not being able to respond to that email. . .