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Location: Fort Worth, TX | I just got back from my buddy Stan Nowlin's place. I took him the luthier built parlor guitar I am selling for the builder I met through dwgpreacher. I took my EliteC along as well. There was another well known southern gospel bassist there as well who has played with every top SG act. He also played guitar and picked my Ovation awhile. It was sooo nice to stand in front of it and hear what my rescued guitar can do. Stan is recording a video of himself playing the parlor for me to demonstrate it to an interested buyer. He played it for me and I was blown away by the power of those little things. I still think they look like a guitar with a birth defect! I told him about how his Youtube vids on playing scales had given me an epiphany and he showed me several things about his fourth one he will be posting soon that wraps it all up nicely. In a half hour this morning I've had a complete lesson already that packed more punch than all the stuff I've studied on my own the past five years. I told him how I'm tired of playing/learning from tabs. He said to throw them away and learn his scale approach and get it into my subconscious and demonstrated a few things I'll be able to do when that happens. He said tabs require so much memorization whereas his method the music comes out of your heart into and through your hands. I finally GET scales and it is so liberating and not the mind numbing dry stuff I previously considered it to be. I wish every day could start like this. Being a guitar player is such a marvelous way to live! |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | Totally diff topic but I figured I'd post it here instead of a new thread. Don't wanna have too many threads under my name & have Bob adding them to my allotted tally!
I had a discussion with the luthier whose parlor I just sold for a $300 profit to me after he sent it and I had it for three days. What with my new sideline of fixing cracks in the top of O's, I wondered what else I could do from home there might be a more lucrative market for. So far I've sold three guitars for Dr. Conant, but he might only build two more this year after he finishes my OM next month. Not enough volume there, but he's 72 years old and I doubt his build rate will ever become prolific, even though he wants me to sell his guitars for him and I've been very successful at it. Then it hit me. My transferable skills from pinstriping motorcycles to guitars would easily lie in custom inlay work. I already have an extensive Dremel moto tool accessories setup. Dr. Conant put me onto websites where I got a ton of info. I've always had a lot of fun designing Victorian signs for a tourist town here full of antique stores around the square. There's an awful lot of flourishes and scrolls in that so I have the design aspect down as well. Talk about an inlaid name on a neck... who better than a signpainter of 45 years to do it?
Dr. Conant told me he obtained some old Gibson plans and his next two guitars are going to be based off those. He said he could send me fretboard blanks already grooved for frets and peghead veneers as well as spreading the word to other luthiers. One of the websites he directed me to is a guy who calls himself the "Duke of Pearl"... I guess that alludes to Duke of Earl for those old enough to remember that monotonous tune. For an investment of less than $200 I could have the rest of the tools I need. I'm ordering a few books and dvd's on the how to of it and gettin' after it. I don't think I've EVER seen an O with elaborate inlays, but I'm sure someone will post me a pic of one. I'd ultimately like to find another O to work on as a first project and have a new fretboard made for it I could inlay. Looks like I'm finally going to have something to fill my endless days of watching time pass. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Good to see you so hyped up about a possible new passion and outlet for your talent. Good luck with it all!
Wayne |
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Fabulous Musical Start To My Day...
