NOooo

[Blackswanwood]

I am the last person in the world to be labelled as politically correct.... but come on!

Some of the comments here made me squirm with embarrassment.

She can wear what she likes, and if someone thinks that's to get a reaction out of dirty old men, then they probably fall into that category!

There are plenty of men doing similar videos looking "manly", but they don't get criticised.

Maybe some of the people sneering the most just don't like the idea of a young woman who clearly knows what she's doing?

Her looks, shape, age or what she chooses to wear have nothing to do with what she's saying.

Well said

 

[Agent_zed]

It is strange that there seems to be an inference that somehow the fact that she is attractive makes her less credible.
Would she have more credibility if she looked like Angela Merkel?

To be fair to her, most of her videos don't have a provocative image (although almost every single thumbnail contains a picture of her), and I would guess she is still trying to find a balance between being using looks and being taken seriously. It's pretty much marketing 101. (I realise now that I have actually watched some of her videos in the past as I also build guitars.)

If you compare Stumpynubs video thumbnails https://www.youtube.com/@StumpyNubs/videos you'll notice the difference https://www.youtube.com/@DaisyTempest

More so for example with this youtuber https://www.youtube.com/@WhatMeikeMakes.

Click on what you want to click on, but lets not pretend that looks are not part of a marketing strategy to attract more clicks regardless of how skilled or unskilled the person is.

 

[Eshmiel]

Whilst I have no idea what Jacob actually looks like, I'm guessing he might need more than a bit of lippy and some hot pants

Jacob really needs no crude modern image-tweek of the sort reportedly employed by them inflooziencers, as his built-in image is probably highly persuasive, one way and another, without any tarting-up. I cranked up my "Wot-they-look-like" software that parses posts then, with a couple of added parameter values, generates the likely appearance of a poster. Unaccountably, it generates something different every time!







I would like to see Jacob do a sharpening video - or one on making a piece of furniture. Perhaps there is an AI somewhere that can parse posts then generate the likely wooden artefacts made by the poster ........ ?

Incidentally, if I feed my own posts into the Wot-they-look-like app it gives a pretty good result!

 

[Fergie 307]

Love the bearded Jacob, although keeping it out of the lathe would be a job

 

[johnnyb]

It suggests guitar's require sharper tools than general work. And those tools have less abuse. She's also using oire nomi which can be a bit brittle unless there carefully handled(but what an edge)on general work. That work is like a shot of polish vodka.. very concentrated and intense.

 

[johnnyb]

I find people like this lady fascinating tbh. What is her background and how did she end up in a tree house making guitars? Did she do general woodwork at any point? I'm guessing there's no machinery up in that tree house! Her methods and manner suggest she's highly trained, maybe a luthier school graduate(how elsewould one perfect that art?) Anyone fill in the blanks. She doesn't do anything particularly innovative sharpening wise, but she must achieve great edges!

 

[johnnyb]

There's much talk of her talent but also her marketing and cod(to use my granny's phrase) I'm picturing guitar building as being like a religion with maybe 50 luthiers being really top. There's mention it's only her seventh guitar. The £36000 pound figure is bandied about in Every mention. Stateside some of those luthiers must have plenty of time and money in the game. It's unlikely she's producing the absolute best guitars ever made and I'm guessing her 50th guitar won't be worth to much more. But her videos do use her personality to market. It's such an esoteric thing it's hard to really know if she's the best around or just from a wealthy background with plenty wealthy friend clients. That 36000 seems to be what people focus on. Does she have any famous users which I guess is the acid test.