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Or, as he mentioned on the subject of posting pricing in other thread, it's more for posterity, but the guitar was really already sold at the time of posting.
They do sound amazing, the one Alfonso Ponticelli plays, I've never heard anything like it.
Good for Bob, and Michael too, they deserve to be successful with the time and passion they put in their endeavors.
pas encore, j'erre toujours.
I don't pre-sell the Holos, they are always available to the public on a first come, first serve basis. However, there are so many people waiting that once I post one it sells very quickly. So, by the time most people see it, it is already on hold. But it was for sale, albeit for a very short time.
thanks!
Michael
Mine go a little quicker because I don't have a list, but they're not pre-sold. So I guess there are three ways to answer the "How Quick" question. In this case, it was two minutes after listing, or four hours after twitter, or I suppose somewhere between four hours and seven or eight years after the buyer decided he wanted one. It causes a bit of confusion and occasionally some hard feelings or controversy which is unfortunate. Mostly I think it just causes Michael stress and I feel bad about that because it's disconcerting to watch someone take flack on your behalf, But I suppose controversy is more interesting than saying: "Well, the guy doesn't make many guitars because he spends a lot of time in study and prototyping and working with artists." The image of a guy bent over a dial-indicator or microphone and recording results in a spreadsheet and defining a linar-regression or a durbin-watson test... doesn't make for a good story. It seems everything is more sensationalized in the internet age, though I do miss the days of Walter Cronkite, haha.
Perhaps the answer is to sit down and explain the exact reasons that I don't have a list. The reasons are very simple and they stem from the method I have for learning and improving. But I don't know whether explaining them would answer the questions or just raise more questions. Anyone who doubts that answers are the seeds from which questions grow, should spend some time talking with kids. Anyway, Lol... Answers beget questions. So, sometimes you just have to shrug and have faith that when all the dust settles, people don't pay much attention to drama because most of it is like a bad soap opera. Besides... this post is too long already and I have the urge to go to the wood closet and tap some boards. I'm between builds right now, but starting Monday I'll probably be MIA for a while.
Anyway, that's the answer to "How quick"… somewhere between 2 minutes and 8 years depending on how you view it.
When I was about nineteen, I apprenticed for a few months with Canadian guitar maker Jean Larrivee, who was then making guitars in his townhouse basement in Willowdale, Ont. Later on, of coure, Jean moved to Vancouver and went into production with a big operation and now he's probably worth zillions... Hopefully he's able to enjoy his success and it doesn't come with zillions of problems and stresses.
I remember one time there was a big pile of sawdust on the floor, so I told Jean, hey don't worry, I'll take care of that. So I went up to the top of the basement stairs where I'd noticed this funny looking broom, brought it downstairs and started sweeping.
Gradually I realized that Jean had stopped working and was watching me and dissolving in laughter. Why?
Well, it turns out that most young fellas from the US of A, as I was, didn't know beans about this weird Canadian sport called "Curling"... And that weird broom Id found at the top of the stairs was... his wife's curling broom.
But aside from the odd faux pas, I had a great few months working with Jean, and it is my boast that me, and Jean's next apprentice, a guy named Grit Laskin, helped make the operation the success it is today...
Well, that my story and I'm sticking to it... Anyway, Bob, if you should ever decide to take on any apprentices with excellent sawdust sweeping skills, I am totally available... :oops:
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Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
No, that sounds like a more interesting story to me... but then I'm a nerd
Bob when your guitars sell almost immediately and there's many eyes following twitter/djangobooks for opportunity to buy one if they have the chance, it would suggest you can raise your price to match the market and make a bit more $ for your hard work, no??
there´s no controversy here Bob, just appraisal for your guitars.
i myself spend a lot of time with dial gauges, deflection testing, tap recording and chladni probing, so some stories like that would definitely be interesting!