Top 10 List - Habits of Highly Effective Full-Time Luthiers

[waseok]

#22 - gets in the habit of bookmatching his sandwich meat

hahahahahahah! good one!

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Well said!! I have a friend (a luthier) who builds guitars for blue grass players pretty much strictly. Although he presently doesn't take orders and his back log is out nearly 5 years on the wait list, he's down to earth enough to say he builds "tools" for musicians. Plain and simple. His customers want and get consistent performance and quality from their "tools", but he'll "decorate" a guitar if you want.

Well they have to function first and foremost! The rest is dressing.

But pretty wood is a good thing too...

I like my tools...

 

[erikbojerik]

#23 - takes time to smell the rosewoods

 

[erikbojerik]

#24 - thinks a "ringtone" is what happens when you bonk on good lumber

 

[wilser]

#24 - thinks a "ringtone" is what happens when you bonk on good lumber

That's it, I'm making my ringtone a wood bonk

 

[erikbojerik]

#25 - hears her talk about her "G-string" and wonders if she uses flats or rounds.

 

[T2W]

HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA AH AH A H AH HAH AHA AAAAAA !!!!!!!!

 

[scottyd]

#26 At the age of 75 thinks back on his life and says "If I only know now what I thought I knew then"

 

[jordan_frerichs]

#25 - hears her talk about her "G-string" and wonders if she uses flats or rounds.

i am still lmfao at this.

a good portion of this list is true for me. (but not this one)

 

[jordan_frerichs]

27) if you make a mistake, but then turn it into something completely awsome, you claim to have planed it like that (some of the best parts of my basses where parts that where "planed like that" haha)

 

[erikbojerik]

#28 - makes himself a pariah with constant references to "polishing his nuts"

 

[erikbojerik]

#29 - his best pickup line is "Nordstrands"

 

[T2W]

#29 - his best pickup line is "Nordstrands"

Amazing, simply amazing !!! HA HA HAHAA !!!

 

[erikbojerik]

#30 - doesn't bother himself with those nude beaches when visiting Brazil

 

[erikbojerik]

#31 - gets zero cold calls from financial planners

 

[wilser]

#31.b and a lot of calls from creditors

 

[moonshinegtrs]

#11 Has huge piles of scrap wood lying around the house and swears that it might be useful

AMEN!! My late wife used to swear that when I died she was going to cremate me using all my wood for a funeral pyre,viking style ("Look honey,another piece of wood!").

Moonshine

 

[erikbojerik]

#32 - entertains false hope he'll see some stimulus money as a green collar worker

 

[black_labb]

i plan on making a hollow body instrument (probably guitar) with all my scraps. glue them up in the shape of the outline of a guitar, and then thickness them and add a top and bottom. should look interesting with the middle having odd types of woods. think i'll try to make it as mismatched as possible.

edit: i'll make sure to use the pieces so that the grain is all aligned somewhat parallel with the neck

 

[tjclem]

Great list! Most of it too true.