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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??

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!

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...





Sam Price38951.7273263889

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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"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."

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!

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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Live to Play, Play to Live

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"MichaelP38951.7380902778

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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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Well Done Sam

It will soon be singing

Hey Russ--2000 posts. Well done you!
Sam, congrats!

Hesh--good line.

Steve

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Thanks Steve and Hesh

2000 Posts and most of them nonsense

Way to go Russ old Branch!

What a fun milestone, if that's the right term!

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

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

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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Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Very cool Sam! Congratulations!

I hope to experience that same feeling tonight, whe I mount the neck on # 2.

-Mark

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Thank you Ron