phil.p":2unjqlap said:
Geoff_S":2unjqlap said:
Anyway, I didn't know what a luthier is, so I looked it up and learnt yet another thing on this excellent forum.
Have a look at Simo's guitar build threads.
Too right. Amazing.
I quite fancy make an actual lute one day in about, ooooh, a hundred years when I have the skills.
I don't want to play the lute or sell a lute or own a lute especially. I have no real
need of a lute if I'm honest.
I want to make one for the sole reason that when I've taken years to build up the skills and knowledge to build one, spent money on exotic woods and tools, sacrificed my limited time and energy, when I have finally finished it I can look down at this prized piece of woodwork, this fusion of art and craftwork, this perhaps most playable synergy of toil of hand and musicality of soul, and there it will be on my workbench. The sum total of years of effort, finished to the best limits of my perfection and I'll be able to say in my best heavy breathing Darth Vader voice, 'Luuuuute. I am your Faaaaather'.
Only then I will be satisfied I have made the best lute based pun ever told in the history of the world.
I
may even need to buy some abranet along the way if anyone has ohhh, I dunno, 10 m rolls of 120 grit along the way although possibly this will be surplus to my requirements. God, who knows.
If I did though, thanks Carpyone. I wouldn't have seen the offer otherwise. What is it they say about advertising again?
Until then, onwards and upwards.
Cheers now
Chris.