Patience Is A Virtue

One of the things I have began to experience during my education in the field of luthierie is that nothing comes as a quick and simple solution for anything that would yield quality results. Yes, it was nerve-racking to rip apart my Paul Reed Smith only to find numerous imperfections and problems that I would be learning to solve as I uncovered them. After a short over-coming instant yesterday afternoon during the repairs portion of the day, I found a little more joy and relaxation in the practices we five students have been learning down here in Atlanta. It was a great eye opening moment.

As far as the custom builds go, I had to take a step back on Sunday and re-evaluate everything that I had over-ambitiously set on my plate. I want to build as much as possible before leaving for New Jersey since when I return back home I will not have the access to this machinery for a very long time (well, it may come sooner if some plans that are in the work fall into the right places). So, even though I had wanted to originally create about 4 instruments before the end of this session, I am focusing on rounding up my semi-hollow & my acoustic and only in my spare time working on an extra solid-body electric guitar similar in design to the semi-hollow.

I have plenty of designs and ambition to match it all. The issue is time and patience. I would like to be more patient with all of this and I think that with some careful consideration for my mental health while in this program that I can obtain a zen-like state while still getting the job done. I just need to set my own pace with all of this. And I am.


This is a picture of the Canary-Wood top that I will be using on the semi-hollow CMCg design I originally intended on finishing. If you look closely in the back-ground, the Spanish Cedar is also clamped up and glued. They're coming along quite fine, and today I'll be working on figuring out how to hollow this thing out for the semi-hollow design.

The solid-body electric will have (I think) a Mahogany and Spanish Cedar body with a Canary Wood and Wenge top (shown in the next picture in it's raw glue-up state), and a solid Canary Wood neck with that good ol' Black & White Ebony fretboard that I'm using on the semi-hollow as well.

I might inlay some maple on the solid body to mimic the F-holes (actually, they are more like S holes) on the semi, but that may or may not be worth while for the design. Stay tuned!