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[QUOTE=CarltonM] [QUOTE=Serge Poirier] PERFECTIONNISTS AND NEAT FREAKS [/QUOTE]
Serge,

There's only one "n" in "perfectionists."


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Sorry for my Frenglish again Carlton!

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier]Sorry for my Frenglish again Carlton! [/QUOTE]
I thought it was Ench.    (I hope you understood the irony in my previous post. It was a nudge at perfectionists, not at you, who seems to have excellent command of a language not native to you!)

Well at least it wasn't Spanish!!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Ok guys, anyone here want to teach me some Chinese so no one sees my grammar!

Carlton, i did understand the irony in your post, think of the way i wrote it as French, perfectionnistes has 2 n's in our language, i was just messin' with your brains!

Billy, just wait till i learn some more Spanish, mixed with French, English and Chinese! Man, prepare to laugh your shorts out of yer pants!

[QUOTE]prepare to laugh your shorts out of yer pants![/QUOTE]

I'm in trouble then, because I wear an agbada and buba!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Hey Billy, is that a picture of you??? Nice atire....we have some friends from Ghana that dress much the same.

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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."

I could fill a book with the mistakes I have made and thought I was the only one. Usually the result of working too fast and lack of patience but getting better each time.

At first I thought it was the tools so I bought every tool I could get my hands on. Including but not limited to Performax drum sander for thicknessing, band saw, planner, joiner, lots of cam clamps, special japanese saws, sharpning stones and on and on and on. Then there is the library of books, video tapes and web articles. And adding to that the quest for learning by lurking on OLF and other sites and then going to the ASIA Symposium for the past few years.

All of this to have a relaxing hobby!

Well I have gotten pretty good at making sure the ceterline back inlay actually lines up with the heel and end graft. Have gotten pretty good at shaving braces and not breaking sides during bending (oh yeah, I now use a heating blanket and bending jig from John Hall).

Am much better at making sure the soundhole is where it should be before taking the dremel to it. Even have had a couple of near flawless rosettes.

I have made every mistake you could possibly make. I have cut a few guitars in half like they do at Martin when they get a defect. I have cut necks in half to use them for templates becasue of a flaw and trying to turn a lemon into lemon wine.

Well enough said. The good news is like Edison once said when asked if he was discouraged after failing many times at solving a problem. "I have done this experiemnt 1,000 times and while I have not succeded, I now knoe 1,000 ways that don't work and getting closer to the answer" Or something like that - but however you say it - this is the reality. It's two steps forward and one step back. As long as it isnt one step forward and two steps back - you make progress.

[QUOTE=Billy T] [QUOTE]prepare to laugh your shorts out of yer pants![/QUOTE]

I'm in trouble then, because I wear an agbada and buba![/QUOTE]

Dang, how many lingueses do you parlare mon ami Billy?

[QUOTE]Hey Billy, is that a picture of you??? Nice attire....we have some friends from Ghana that dress much the same.[/QUOTE]

No, it ain't me, but this is my typical business suit.
Nice Attire? You bet, I predict in 2 years everybody will be dressing like me! You should get a head start, Don!

[QUOTE]Dang, how many lingueses do you parlare mon ami Billy? [/QUOTE]

Hardly any! I know very little German, French, Spanish and barely English!! I know how to say stupid things in just about every major tongue.(Oh, I took 2 years of Latin and I know a little Japanese, she's about 5'1" and very cute)Billy T38849.0642361111

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Same here, i know how to get the food out of the kullschrank and cook it in the microwellenoffen!

Exactly why Rich needs to get the OK from Lance to post his hilarious but educational story of beginning Luthierie.MT

Hello Mike!

I usually make bonehead mistakes when I'm trying to go too fast. There have been plenty!

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

I have gotten into the habit of stopping often and thinking thru.
   
    I mark wood, measure and plan many times because as they say, there always seems to be time to do something right the second time. I'm catching on slowly, but things do seem to go faster now.

   One of my friends told me about going slow, at first, in playing guitar, because if you go fast and make mistakes, those mistakes set up patterns in the mind that can be hard to break. He was right, but it applies to just about everything.

It's a lot different, than most of the time of, "Stop Before You Think"

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

This sounds like a journal moment to me That is one of the things that I think is great about keeping a daily build journal. If you get in the habit of stopping and making journal notes at the start and end of every thing you do. The act of taking the notes slowes you down and makes you think things through.

[QUOTE]The act of taking the notes slowes you down and makes you think things through.[/QUOTE]

I like it!
Point well taken!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)