Mountain Whimsy

It’s hard for me to build only one of anything.  I learn so much on the first attempt that I want to incorporate on the next.  But how many boats, surfboards, or guitars does one man need?  Bad question.  If there is still room in the house, yard, or shop, then there is room for more.  Of course, this needs […]

It’s not often that you can go to a race and have every person who enters win a prize.  Such is winter triathlon in Montana.  Or perhaps anywhere.  There are not many folks who are willing to run, bike, and ski back-to-back. What made this event even more interesting is that it was the 2013 Winter Triathlon National Championship!  So […]

I’ve been extremely slow posting anything of my own from my recent trip to Assateague Island on  Maryland’s Atlantic shore.  I figure: why post my own work when Barry Long at Eye In Hand has been telling the tale so brilliantly over the past few weeks.  Amazingly, days after we left Assateague, Hurricane Sandy hit the island hard.  Our camp site […]

All lacquered (not licquored) up and ready  to go. This has been a pretty satisfying reworking of the guitar.  I was able to get the bow out of the neck, reshape the neck profile, refret with slightly higher frets, change the color, and lower the action.  Pretty successful on all accounts. The final setup went well and I am very pleased […]

The refret went pretty well.  No more nibs, but I’m not a traditionalist.  I did come up with a nice trick to clean up the fret slots.  I did not have a fancy refret saw, so I picked up a $10 X-Acto laser saw kit at the local hardware store (the little red handled tools in the photo below).  It […]