Documenting the Making of a Guitar
I take pictures to remember things, processes and methods, the problem is that they end up getting lost in the myriad of other pictures and when the amount to revise and select becomes too much they all end up in some harddrive and that is also becoming a collection. so it is a futile exercise.
Perhaps the most permanent archival system at the moment is publishing somewhere where other people will remind you of what you have with questions and comments.
Blogger is awesome, right now I can take a pic from endeavours 8 years ago. It seems like someone else lived that life, then I realized that I am glad that I decided to log those activities as they were happening.
Right now documenting the making of one of my guitars could be an excellent way to store the process and record the results and why not, sharing a little knowledge in this area.
I am a crafty person by nature, in everything I do I obsess over details and methods making any project an endless draft, a constant sketching and corrections without an endline in sight.
So like J.L. Borges used to say "I publish to stop making correction"I am not sure how well that works today though.
The publishing system for stopping endless corrections is not as effective now as it used to be. in the past you needed to wait until new edition to state your corrections and add new material to the publication. Today we can just login and keep changing.
I hope it is useful to prevent errors that can be costly, working on a good piece of rosewood and ruining could be very disheartening and some errors are very easy to prevent.
Also I would like to mention that I will not be responsible for your errors and my ways are very personal and they worked for me, so examine the situation before you follow me and change to suit your work.
Making a guitar could be a very pleasurable experience or a dreadful one depends on your approach I guess. For some people is is a way to relax and retreat to a personal, quiet place for others is a challenge with all its rewards and downfalls, but as I mentioned it is how you approach this process. If you decide to take your time and see the process as the end on itself then you will get your rewards every time you get to work on your project.
Different from other times in this occasion I am following the model presented by John Bogdanovich. I like his detailed and clear instructions is a good mix of traditional and innovative ways to build an instrument.
If you never work with wood, I recommend that you start by doing so first. practising an a few hundred dollars worth of materials is a waste. Grab some off-cuts at your local store, a few tools and get started making some saw dust and shavings. getting to know intimately how each type of wood behaves is indispensable.
I am very methodical, but this recording is not. I will not be publishing in order or in a very ordered instructional way, think of it as a rant while making a guitar with pictures and some video clips.
Perhaps the most permanent archival system at the moment is publishing somewhere where other people will remind you of what you have with questions and comments.
Blogger is awesome, right now I can take a pic from endeavours 8 years ago. It seems like someone else lived that life, then I realized that I am glad that I decided to log those activities as they were happening.
Right now documenting the making of one of my guitars could be an excellent way to store the process and record the results and why not, sharing a little knowledge in this area.
I am a crafty person by nature, in everything I do I obsess over details and methods making any project an endless draft, a constant sketching and corrections without an endline in sight.
So like J.L. Borges used to say "I publish to stop making correction"I am not sure how well that works today though.
The publishing system for stopping endless corrections is not as effective now as it used to be. in the past you needed to wait until new edition to state your corrections and add new material to the publication. Today we can just login and keep changing.
I hope it is useful to prevent errors that can be costly, working on a good piece of rosewood and ruining could be very disheartening and some errors are very easy to prevent.
Also I would like to mention that I will not be responsible for your errors and my ways are very personal and they worked for me, so examine the situation before you follow me and change to suit your work.
Making a guitar could be a very pleasurable experience or a dreadful one depends on your approach I guess. For some people is is a way to relax and retreat to a personal, quiet place for others is a challenge with all its rewards and downfalls, but as I mentioned it is how you approach this process. If you decide to take your time and see the process as the end on itself then you will get your rewards every time you get to work on your project.
Different from other times in this occasion I am following the model presented by John Bogdanovich. I like his detailed and clear instructions is a good mix of traditional and innovative ways to build an instrument.
If you never work with wood, I recommend that you start by doing so first. practising an a few hundred dollars worth of materials is a waste. Grab some off-cuts at your local store, a few tools and get started making some saw dust and shavings. getting to know intimately how each type of wood behaves is indispensable.
I am very methodical, but this recording is not. I will not be publishing in order or in a very ordered instructional way, think of it as a rant while making a guitar with pictures and some video clips.
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