Your best tip?

[nkforster]

Just posted this yesterday and have already had some nice emails about it.

http://www.theluthierblog.com/articl...-guitar-maker/

What are your best tips? Let me know and they can go in a future post.

Nigel
http://www.theluthierblog.com/articles/
http://www.nkforsterguitars.com/about-me/

[Shane Woonton]

Hi Nick,

Good article and am enjoying the blog.

My best tips, from the perspective of someone relatively new to guitar-making (11 builds complete) are variants of those on your list:
- Learn to sharpen. Every time I think I have it sorted I find a new technique and discover again what sharp really means - but also get some discipline to your sharpening regimen. So often I've blamed myself for poor technique only to find out that my tools are not sharp!
- Keep it simple and focus on flawless execution - It is tempting as a newbie to try everything, but when you add details anything but perfect finish stands out like dogs b___s. All of those extras you mention look great, unless you don't execute them perfectly and then they just attract attention and devalue the build.

And one more would be patience and thinking long-term - there is always next time. I guess its like your suggestion to only change one thing. Plan your next 6 builds and incorporate all of those experiments over a longer horizon. Can reduce the desire to try it all at once.

Cheers,

Shane

[56nortondomy]

Hi Nick,
And one more would be patience and thinking long-term - there is always next time. I guess its like your suggestion to only change one thing. Plan your next 6 builds and incorporate all of those experiments over a longer horizon. Can reduce the desire to try it all at once.

Cheers,

Shane

I think patience and not rushing are really important, cause that's when things go belly up. I learned that the hard way.
Wayne