Freeman Keller
Multimeh
Hi. I'm new here. I've been lurking for a few weeks and figured I'd better give it a try - especially after Grant posted a thread about a guitar that I'm building for him - thought I'd better defend myself.
I'm an old fart who has been playing guitar forever, unfortunately not very well. I'm mostly an acoustic sort of guy - brought up with folkie blusy music - you know, three chords and the truth. A few years ago I got interested in how these little boxes were made and how they work - I'm an engineer by training so naturally I'm fascinated by the technology of acoustic guitars m- why are they made the way they are - and of course that led to trying to make one myself. That was 12 years and 24 guitars ago.... (if you ever think of building a guitar let me warn you.....)
I had no interest in electric guitars but decided to build one anyway - basically a Les Paul clone - which led to another and another and yet another. I built a few for friends and a couple of "commissions" - a left handed ES-335 for a guy in Austria, most recently an L-5 sort of thing for myself. Finding myself with a jazz guitar I found that I needed to learn something about jazz which meant that I needed to learn something more about music and theory and the fretboard and how chords were put together and all of those chords with unpronounceable names - I wish I had done this 40 years ago. For what it is worth, here is the lester and the L-5 thing (this also gives me a chance to see if I can post a picture on this forum)
I don't call myself a luthier, I have too much respect for the true luthiers in our world, and I sit in awe at what they can do. Some wag said you need to build 30 guitars before you have made all the mistakes - then you can call yourself a luthier. I like to think the term is like musician or artist or photographer - lots of people play music but only a few are musicians, lots of people take pictures but only a few... - you get the picture (no pun).
I've built a bunch of different types of guitars - acoustics of every size and shape, resonators, a Weissenborn, solid and hollow and semi hollow electrics - which gives me a pretty good idea of how these things work. I do a lot of repair and setup work for my local music store - which gives me a pretty good understanding of what goes wrong and maybe how to fix it. I've taken a lot of pictures over the years which means I can often means I can provide the proverbial thousands words.
Anyway, that's me and I'll be popping in from time to time. For right now I need to go to Grant's thread about the barncaster and correct some things
I'm an old fart who has been playing guitar forever, unfortunately not very well. I'm mostly an acoustic sort of guy - brought up with folkie blusy music - you know, three chords and the truth. A few years ago I got interested in how these little boxes were made and how they work - I'm an engineer by training so naturally I'm fascinated by the technology of acoustic guitars m- why are they made the way they are - and of course that led to trying to make one myself. That was 12 years and 24 guitars ago.... (if you ever think of building a guitar let me warn you.....)
I had no interest in electric guitars but decided to build one anyway - basically a Les Paul clone - which led to another and another and yet another. I built a few for friends and a couple of "commissions" - a left handed ES-335 for a guy in Austria, most recently an L-5 sort of thing for myself. Finding myself with a jazz guitar I found that I needed to learn something about jazz which meant that I needed to learn something more about music and theory and the fretboard and how chords were put together and all of those chords with unpronounceable names - I wish I had done this 40 years ago. For what it is worth, here is the lester and the L-5 thing (this also gives me a chance to see if I can post a picture on this forum)
I don't call myself a luthier, I have too much respect for the true luthiers in our world, and I sit in awe at what they can do. Some wag said you need to build 30 guitars before you have made all the mistakes - then you can call yourself a luthier. I like to think the term is like musician or artist or photographer - lots of people play music but only a few are musicians, lots of people take pictures but only a few... - you get the picture (no pun).
I've built a bunch of different types of guitars - acoustics of every size and shape, resonators, a Weissenborn, solid and hollow and semi hollow electrics - which gives me a pretty good idea of how these things work. I do a lot of repair and setup work for my local music store - which gives me a pretty good understanding of what goes wrong and maybe how to fix it. I've taken a lot of pictures over the years which means I can often means I can provide the proverbial thousands words.
Anyway, that's me and I'll be popping in from time to time. For right now I need to go to Grant's thread about the barncaster and correct some things
