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With tongue planted firmly in cheek....here are the Top 10 personal
characteristics and philosphical outlooks of highly-effective full-time
luthiers, as compiled by the home office of Erik Hauri in Gaithersburg,
Maryland.



Please feel free to add to this list, as your experience and creativity warrant.



#10 - gets used to negative profit for the first 10 years

#9 - lifelong renter (or lives with parents)

#8 - shoots for 1,000,000 miles on the car

#7 -develops an eye for good garge-sale lawn furniture to outfit the crib

#6 - simplifies culinary scope to rice, peanut butter and top-ramen

#5 - cultivates a social life with pets

#4 - gets to 30 with 8-1/2 fingers

#3 - gets to 40 with no hearing in the ear that always faces the dust collector

#2 - gets to 50 with wood-dust black lung

#1 - gets to 60 with a brain the size of a raisin thanks to nitro

These seem brutally true.

The pain passes, the beauty and the music remain!

#11 Shuns posting on the computer, read only.

#12 No longer owns a computer.

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#13 is seen in the state mental hospital tapping on doors while holding their ear in close proximity to the door.........

#14 does not receive junk mail from financial planners

#15 remembers the snotty kid in 5th grade when cleaning up squeeze out and using HHG

#16 dreams of a trip to Brazil that does NOT include the beaches frequented by thong clad bathers........

#17 participates in guitar-building forums with the rationale that it's the same as actually being in the shop, building.

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#18 - makes sure to marry a woman with a real job

Eric, LMAO on that one.

#19 Never passes a tree-trimming crew without zoot-wonderlust.

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#21- makes sure to re-use those dust boogers for epoxy purposes...

#22 wonders why everybody thinks they are rich

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Oh, I almost forgot #23 you add "Zootman" and "zoot" to your dictionaries in your spell checkers.........

#24 you think that binding arbitration is a tool that Stew-Mac sells........

#25 a butt wedge is no longer a verb

#26 - Will often wear 2 or more pairs of reading glasses at the same time.....

long

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#27 - there's nothing like the smell of naptha in the morning

#28 - Uses his old Hot Hide Glue for dog treats.

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#29 - knows why polishing your nuts is a good thing to talk about

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Ken H

#30 - Book matches his sandwich meat

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

[QUOTE=Arnt] #30 - Book matches his sandwich meat[/QUOTE]

You are describing my BLT yesterday. I can't wait until lunch today so I can do it again.

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#31 - Catalogues and stores the smallest wood scraps with notes on each piece.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]You are describing my BLT yesterday. I can't wait until lunch today so I can do it again. [/QUOTE]

I catch myself doing it with all kinds of food; some fruits are especially interesting in that regard...

Pathetic, I know.

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#32 - Understands and chuckles at all the previous posts in this thread.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

#33 - takes time to smell the rosewoods

Turns every possible phrase into an acronym.

#34 Thinks all the odd behaviors posted here are normal.

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#35 - thinks a "ringtone" is what happens when you bonk on good lumber

#36 - Sets up the Laguna bandsaw with a digital caliper for processing consistent slices of the Thanksgiving Turkey.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Ya'll messed up the number sequence ya hear.

Next post is #38. James Orr forgot to put up his number which was #35.

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#38 Digs out microscopic particles of CA residue from under fingernails in order to stay awake during meetings at the day gig.