So, a lot's gone on since my last post. I've been BUSY. Let's see - my practice schedule is erratic, but I seem to be getting a fair bit out of it. Recently I've focussed on power chords - I first took that course for it like 3 months ago, and promptly failed to use any of it, so didn't learn. So, I'm back to struggling with Wild Thing - because it's a song I know and can do, so now I'm just doing it with different chords. In some ways it feels like a step backwards, but it also feels like a huge step forwards.
So that's coming along, and is kind of cool. What's REALLY cool, though, is I bought a telecaster kit guitar, and have started work on it. Not very far yet, but I've cut the headstock and done a TON of sanding. I had to wait like a month for the stain for it to come in the mail, but it finally got here this week - though I don't know when I'm going to get a chance to use it now. So, I've been busy with that. I've also started a community of guitar builders online - we're up to about 130 people or so, which is awesome. We're pretty much all amateurs, like me, just trying to do builds, fixes, and upgrades on our own.
The community is the luthiers community on reddit
Here's my pictoral log of the build - there's not much here yet, but it will get bigger as I get further in the project
so yes - very exciting. And a lot of fun! But it's eaten up a lot of my spare time, and I have been thinking of my poor neglected blog, and wanting to get here, but finding myself too busy. And now I have two blogs, plus a community to look out for.
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