So recently, an old guitar friend stopped by the shop as he was passing through my area, and we enjoyed a nice conversation, catching up on everything. During our conversation, he squinted quizzically at me and asked,
"So how did you get into making guitars anyway?"
Alan's next recording is currently underway, so follow him on all the relevant digital platforms and on his Website so you don't miss out.
Ethan Lorentz's recording and arrangements of Schubert Lieder on guitar no. 40.
Good ole no. 15 is back in the shop for some love...
Frames are assembled, backs and tops are braced, and two Osage orange guitars are moving along a bit closer to completion. Hopefully they will be ready in the fall.
A forthcoming Osage orange classical guitar project is going to have a special oak rosette. It's a very "placed-based" guitar.
I don't plan on doing this perpetually, but after looking around at newer vehicles to replace my 96 Pathfinder I became quite disheartened by my options. Everything new just got more plastic and more computerized. So I did the natural thing and bought a older 95 Pathfinder with a manual transmission for $1,000 from some guy in northern Georgia. It looked like the oil hadn't been changed in 100,000 miles, but meh, it still got me all the way back home in the north Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee.