I am thankful for my shop; the people who visit me there, bringing me work and fellowship; and the grand adventure of it all.
Thanksgiving Day
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- If you start something and then just keep coming back, days become weeks become years. Suddenly, you find yourself doing a jig in your 18th year of business. Happy day to me. Gratitude beyond my ability to say it goes out to my client-family. You sustain me. #anniversary #dumbledore #lutherie #selfemployed
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- This #gibsonfirebrand has come full circle. While doing a refret, I trued up the fingerboard, which was a bit bumpy. I also ended up doing a rewire with all new parts (except the pickups.) The electronics had been worked on a lot over the years, and apart from being dirty, they were really sloppy. I was putting the finishing touches on the project when the old, plastic nut snapped in two. Alas, I’ll have to wait a bit longer to rock—time to install the bone nut I built today and do a final setup.
- Roughed out a new #banjo dowel stick for this old tenor out of a scrap of maple I scavenged from an old piano. I’ll fit the dowel, align, and then taper to its final shape before French Polishing with some dark shellac. #frenchpolishing
- Morning bench.
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Gibson
gift
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