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Been a while- Had a cross-country drive and a lot of prototyping for #30. Carbon fiber, ultra-light- 41mm nut, 19mm thick at 1st fret. fancy slug p90s just arrived from australia.

That body turned out great! Damn, these are looking so good lately.

I really love that body shape, and can’t wait to see it when it’s put together.

Long weekend- got a lot done. Body is getting Watco Danish Oil- Alder always takes a few coats to even out- should be done and clear-coated this week. Receiver is sanded to #1000 and ready for frets- special Jescar wire should be here in the next couple days. And you know shit is serious when you start getting whole pieces of tree. Here is a 1.65" slab of cherry. This has a cup in the middle, so the best way to deal with that is to cut along the bottom of the cup, then plain- you lose less wood that way. This should provide 2 bodies-

Starting the assembly phase on #30. I have the next 2 orders, that I'll work on simultaneously. #31 is darker wood LP. Will be Black Cherry w/ Watco, bare knuckles. #32 will be a 27.5" bari w/ the 230 body, also dark.

I've started using up the hardwood and assorted parts around the shop by building a handful of wood necked guitars. Likely not getting finished any time soon, but when they're done I'll come up with some fun way to get them out into the world.

Also, I am seriously considering doing a series of interviews with guitar and record store owners, builders, etc - maybe on youtube? I have always made a point of going to these places when I tour/ travel, and always have great conversations with folks everywhere from Brooklyn to Chile. Anyone have ideas/advice on the technical or 'finding an audience' side of things?

Loving the shape and darker stain of #30, damn.

c jury wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 10:57 pm Also, I am seriously considering doing a series of interviews with guitar and record store owners, builders, etc - maybe on youtube? I have always made a point of going to these places when I tour/ travel, and always have great conversations with folks everywhere from Brooklyn to Chile. Anyone have ideas/advice on the technical or 'finding an audience' side of things?

Can’t help, but I think this would be fantastic.

One thing I’ve always been interested in was the gradual emergence of the vintage market after the late 60s-70s corporate buyouts and turn to cheaper manufacturing methods, eventual offshoring, and then the boutique craze.

It’s probably not based in reality, but I have this hunch that the vintage market only really exploded after boomers had already traded in their now priceless Fenders for Peaveys or whatever. I just think that scarcity was a much bigger factor than the common conception that somebody just noticed that some of these old guitars were just really nice all the sudden.

c jury wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 10:57 pm Anyone have ideas/advice on the technical or 'finding an audience' side of things?

Finding your audience should be pretty easy once you've hit your stride. We are a group that's very good at supporting one another and helping push things from here to socials and from there good content spreads quickly. For getting started, watch a bunch of youtube videos about how to conduct interviews from a journalism standpoint, then do some practice interviews, record them, make determinations about what works, what doesn't. Have your questions ready w/ more questions than you will get time for as you'll probably find some questions are not going to work once you get going.

For the technical points, would need specifics - are you looking for equipment recommendations etc? Software? There's a whole world of audio gear being sold specifically to podcasters these days, so there's very little barrier to entry but you could do a lot with a small 2 channel computer interface, a couple of the vocal mics you probably already have for your practice space, and Reaper or Garageband.

Edit: I think I was thinking about this from a podcast standpoint which is easy AF but doing it on youtube isn't bad etiher - a couple used gopros or even some well-out-of-date iphones and some video editing software would go a long ways probably. if you have a mac, imovie is pretty easy to use.

also had two of your guitars on stage simultaneously this past monday and they both sounded incredible. The bass especially.