Look whoes in the GA....Local Lad Makes Good......(guitars)

[Kim]

Great little story...

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/art ... _news.html

Onya mate

Kim

[kiwigeo]

Great article and also a great pic of Bob.

This part of the article however wasnt so great:

"Slowly progressing neurological disorder multi-focal motor neuropathy with conduction blocks has already hemmed Mr Connor's hand function and ability to play guitar. He estimates its rate of advance will afford him 10 years grace as a luthier and he doesn't want to regret not having made his own guitar from some long-treasured sections of Brazilian rosewood."

Hope you get alot more than "10 years grace" Bob

[Craig]

Congrats Bob . You and your work deserve much more recognition.

Medical advances come in leaps and bounds . Here's hoping those advances are headed your way mate.

[Paul B]

Nice article Bob.

Hope the neuro thingy improves.

[Nick]

Nice item Bob, congrats on the article.

[edrobins]

Good story - hope it proves to be good for marketing. Make those Brazilians sing, and best of luck health-wise.
Ed.

[Kamusur]

What with all the "itises" like Arthur and Tinn tossed into the mix as well Bob, gee theres some shite we have to deal with in life.

Steve

[Tod Gilding]

Great Publicity Bob, Good story and pics, And all the best with the health issues, I hope something can be done to help with that

[Allen]

You cleaned up the shed Bob!!!

Congrats Mate. Great plug for you.

[Lillian]

That's a great article. Congratulations.

[charangohabsburg]

I liked the article, congrats Bob for appearing in the celebrity pages, well deserved.

When I fisrt read "He [...] admires its unburnished beauty and the flow of its grain and then taps it with a finger to gauge its resonance. After perhaps 200 loving hours [...]" I thought for a fraction of a second: what, he will tap that bldy thing for 200 hours?

[Kim]

When I fisrt read "He [...] admires its unburnished beauty and the flow of its grain and then taps it with a finger to gauge its resonance. After perhaps 200 loving hours [...]" I thought for a fraction of a second: what, he will tap that bldy thing for 200 hours?

Well yes Markus, it appears you should have maintained faith in your, fractured second, first impression.

In Bob's shed the tapping and assessing a single piece of wood for a couple of hundred hours is the norm....no, no...NOT the norm, its a bloody ritual.

Yes I know what you are thinking and you are correct, such attention to detail 'does' require many, many, trips back an forth to and from la fridge to enable one to refresh the senses and validate their assessment. But once properties of such an integral part of an instruments construction have been properly established, that information provides the builder with datum from which to evaluate the second part of the bookmatch.

The beauty of process is found in the efficiency of understanding that, unless dependency is found from one plate to the other during the next hundred or so hours of assessments, which may then require a second innings of assessments, one is then free to move on to the pub to celebrate a job well done, and 'that' my dear fellow is the stuff of Solomon

Hoorah!!! for Bob, for surely he is the very wisest of luthiers

Cheers

Kim

[Bob Connor]

Thanks folks.

You're right Allen. The sheds had an enema over the last few weeks. I'm sick of the dust.

I would also like to announce that the original "Le Fridge" has been replace by a newer model which I'm not happy about as my hot hide glue stored therein is now displaying inferior sound transmission qualities.

The blokes from the paper sent me a few more of the pics they took.

This first one is the Brazilian Rosewood one mentioned in the article.

[charangohabsburg]

Thanks for sharing the aditional pictures Bob.

Which brand of fridge do you recommend for storing MAPHG (Maximum Acoustical Performance Hide Glue)? Is there a brand of beverage that will improve acoustical glue properties (better compared to other brands) when sharing the space and loneliness of MAPHG in a fridge?

[...] that information provides the builder with datum from which to evaluate the second part of the bookmatch.

[Dave]

Nice to read about you Bob and the great musical instruments that you make

I too hope that they can help you out in the future as it would be a great loss if you couldn't carry on turning out such wonderful guitars

All the best
Dave

[P Bill]

67 guitars in 7 years is going well in anybodys workshop! That's a hell of a lot of tapping! All the best Bob.

[Bill Hodge]

Bob, good on ya! Excellent article, and much better versions of the pics you've posted here. Congrats!

[ozziebluesman]

Great article Bob! Just keep building beautiful guitars mate! When will we get a look at progress on the little BRW parlour?

Cheers

Alan

[Bob Connor]

Putting the last binding on it tomorrow Al so I'll take some pics then.