I SWEAR my whole life flashed before me as I bolted on the neck and glued the fingerboard to the guitar body tonight...
A kind of penultimate finality...
I'm not joking!!!!!!!
Can you more expereinced lutheirs explain what that was??
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| Author: | Sam Price [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:18 am ] |
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I SWEAR my whole life flashed before me as I bolted on the neck and glued the fingerboard to the guitar body tonight... A kind of penultimate finality... I'm not joking!!!!!!!
Can you more expereinced lutheirs explain what that was??
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:22 am ] |
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Now, if you string it up and the neck breaks off and puts a hole in your top, THEN your life will flash before your eyes. 
It's a very proud feeling to get to a climatic point of building like that. Congrats! |
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| Author: | Sam Price [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:26 am ] |
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Every time my husband walks by the workshop, I hear him saying "kkkkhhwwiiaachkkk" in my general direction (cracking sound...)... I remind him that's it's his money that's going "kkkkhhwwiiaachkkk" not mine... |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:26 am ] |
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Yeah.....I understand that. It was like that as I stared at the first neck I ever made. I was totally in awe that I could actually build something like that. I felt the same way when I finally strung it up. |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:35 am ] |
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Felt it many times during the building of no 2 and i'm sure it will happen again, there is magic happening during those builds ya know!  Great feeling to have, i most agree!
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| Author: | Michael McBroom [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:41 am ] |
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Hey Sam, Hehe -- "penultimate finality" -- I like the oxymoronic quality of that statement. Think I'll borrow it
I know the feeling. For me, though, it happens a little later in the build, but that might be because I build classicals, which follow a different assembly sequence. Probably somewhere around the point when I'm mounting the tuners. Best, Michael |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:41 am ] |
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As each of us progress through out journey toward master craftsmanship we each will sometimes have this or a similar rapture. With each guitar I build I get better, but every so often I will complete the final prep work on a new guitar, getting it ready to go to finish, and find myself glazed-eyed, just looking in amazement with the realization that I have just taken my work to a new level. One I have never achived before. It can be a hypnotic and very rapturous feeling. This feeling is with out a doubt the grand reward and reason I build. It is a state of mind that can only be described by one word. "Passion" |
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| Author: | JJ Donohue [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:44 am ] |
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Congratulations, Sam! I guarantee that you will feel an even more profound experience when you string it up for the first time and it begins to sing back to you...and it's not only for the first guitar. Good luck and get it to the finish line...can't wait to hear about your next reaction! Make sure to post pics. |
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| Author: | RussellR [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:51 am ] |
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Well Done Sam It will soon be singing 
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:55 am ] |
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Hey Russ--2000 posts. Well done you! Sam, congrats! Hesh--good line. Steve |
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| Author: | RussellR [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:31 am ] |
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Thanks Steve and Hesh
2000 Posts and most of them nonsense  
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:59 am ] |
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Way to go Russ old Branch! 
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| Author: | SteveCourtright [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:40 pm ] |
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What a fun milestone, if that's the right term! |
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| Author: | rich altieri [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:12 pm ] |
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I know that feeling well. It takes me over several times during the building process every time a major task is completed and especially when it comes out well |
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| Author: | old man [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:46 pm ] |
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Good for you, Sam. It is an exciting moment. Way to go, Russell! I, for one, deeply appreciate every post I've read of yours. No nonsense there. Maybe a little frivolity.
Ron |
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| Author: | Mark Tripp [ Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:10 am ] |
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Very cool Sam! Congratulations! I hope to experience that same feeling tonight, whe I mount the neck on # 2. -Mark |
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| Author: | RussellR [ Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:48 am ] |
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Thank you Ron
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