for those with to much money....

[clogs]

My wife is getting to be a tool addict and def interested in the old ways......
she found these people on instagram.....might be worth a look.....

https://redrosereproductions.com
they are based in Sterling Illinois.....

 

[D_W]

There must be a market for it. I wonder if I could travel to eastman guitars and violins in china (where they work by hand and do wonderful work, especially on higher end guitars - their $3500 top arch top model is far superior to gibson's $13k L-5 and actually hand carved) and get them to hand make tools. They could do it easily.

There's a small market for this stuff, though, and it's foreign to me because I see tools and only see things maybe I'd like to make at some point.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Worth watching -

 

[D_W]

To watch the gibson factory and then watch this one should be embarrassing. I've got one of the AR910 guitars (there's one guy who actually carves the tops). I had a second (I sold the weaker of the two to a guy who has a vintage L-5 - they are sinfully cheap used. I have no business - not a good player - having guitars of the quality of either of them, but each sold used for $1300. When the buyer got the weaker of the two he said "this is so much stronger than my L-5 that it's ridiculous. It's just like one I played hanging in a music store a week ago".

Mine is still pin straight after 15 years - a testament that it was made well at first, but made with proper care in materials.





(please excuse the orange basement carpet - I'm lucky to have it as I often come through the door with metal dust on my feet and in the event that it's damp in the summer and the steel rusts, it'll never be seen)

They obviously carve the orchestral strings, too.

I hope they survive the rise of the middle class in china.