Yes all very true but it's what men do bestDeems Davis wrote:
This is all very fun but also pointless. It illustrates what my wife refers to as the Male Disease!
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I've always wondered what women argue incessantly about???
Yes all very true but it's what men do bestDeems Davis wrote:
This is all very fun but also pointless. It illustrates what my wife refers to as the Male Disease!
I personally think everyone here needs to get back in their shed making beautiful guitars with what ever tools they use to get the job done - planes, chisels, CNC, a stone axe, or a combination of all the above.
Who says we can't do both? I have a chainsaw in one hand knocking out Archtop tops whilst typing this with the other hand, stopping occasionally to pick up a cold one with the same hand! All the time I'm translating "War and Peace" into Kiribati and using my left foot to write it onto the hand made parchment on the floor and my right is slotting a new nut.felix wrote:I personally think everyone here needs to get back in their shed making beautiful guitars with what ever tools they use to get the job done - planes, chisels, CNC, a stone axe, or a combination of all the above.![]()
Keep going, after you've paid quarterly taxes, GST, insurance, overheads, if you were only making 3 guitars per year they'd have to be at least 50-100k for you to be able to make a living and a frugal one at that. Remember that generally speaking, in an "average" small business (that is above board) you only get a financial return of approximately 10%, the rest is expenses.Nick wrote: I think in this technological age most people would expect a 'handmade' article to include some form of mechanical input, you indeed could truly build a guitar totally by hand, have an output of 2-3 guitars a year and expect the customer to pay upwards of $20,000 per guitar (because of the amount of hours you've poured into it) but would they?
How do you explain THIS then????Nick wrote:[
And if any body said my guitars were beautiful, they were looking at somebody else's work![]()
Mine resemble the roughies Jeff was talking about.
Interestingly enough the lute doesn't lend itself to machinery methods as well as a guitar....the "back and sides" are a bowl made of staves and the top is more easily thinned by hand than with a drum sander.scripsit wrote:Perhaps the 16th C methods should be compulsory:
http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/buildi ... al-methods
Kym
Yeh I know. All is good butGraham Long wrote:Steve, you're right, you are being silly.
kiwigeo wrote:No matter where this thread wanders you can be sure of one thing....The Australian/New Zealand Luthier's Forum is and always will be 100% hand made. The server the forum runs on is valve powered.....the valves individually handmade by highly skilled Russian boffins. The power to run the server is supplied by a large hamster wheel......the hamsters of course are hand fed.
"May contain traces of CNC." on every guitar case.simso wrote:Disclaimer: Dear customer. I built your guitar using tools more advanced than a chisel and plane, be advised that some cnc operations and copying operations were carried out, I also used a bandsaw/thicknesser and jointer during the fabrication process. I have used parts supplied by wholesale manufacturers on your build and these have possibly been made with injection molding machines, cnc machines and the occasional touch of the human hand. Please enjoy your guitar, kind Regards
Steve
Geez, I'd forgotten about that, not one of my best examplesKiwigeo wrote:Nick wrote: And if any body said my guitars were beautiful, they were looking at somebody else's work![]()
Mine resemble the roughies Jeff was talking about.
How do you explain THIS then????
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