Some people never learn. I know \u2026 because I\u2019m one of them. This past week, having vowed (once again) never to build another guitar or banjo after 10 attempts that resulted in a couple of \u2018keepers\u2019, some maybes and the rest just testimony to prove the old adage \u2018if at first you don\u2019t succeed, try try again\u2019 a bogus aphorism as useful as Qanon logic.<\/p>\n
When we built our palace up the hill, I tried to learn the art of drywalling. Buddies told me I\u2019d eventually get the hang of it, keep going. A couple weeks later and not only didn\u2019t I see improvement, the mud and the tape were worse than when I started. Patience, you see, isn’t\u2019 a virtue in my book. Instead of drywall we put cedar floor to ceiling. I hope never to handle a piece of gypsum board again as long as I live.<\/p>\n
So when I swore off luthiery, what did I do? No, I didn\u2019t build a piano if that\u2019s what you\u2019re thinking. I built an instrument stand to put some of my half assed acoustic guitars and banjos on, but halfway into the first one I thought why not make a music stand too, kill two birds with one table saw. <\/p>\n
You know, of course, the first one was a little less than the vision I had at the start. Okay, but nothing to write home about \u2026 so I modified a bit of the design and built a second one. Which, in some way better, some ways worse. Don\u2019t ask me why, but yeah, you guessed it, I built yet another one, figuring mistakes made but lessons learned. Course, being a so-called artist, not a furniture factory, I redesigned every time, apparently for the challenge and obviously for the aggravation.<\/p>\n
The third one was actually better than the first two, even though I rebuilt half the second. As the finishing is drying below me here in the shack, I\u2019m promising myself to stop. You know building more instrument stands. Although \u2026 that piano sounds challenging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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