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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 24, 2016 at 4:18am

craftsmanship is based on experience cast in personal and general rules in an eternal iterative process... no rules no craftsmanship...

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on December 24, 2016 at 5:12am

Yep, and the true craftsman expands the rules, after he understands the rules

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Permalink Reply by Robert Varcoe on December 24, 2016 at 8:12am

Reminds me of another saying..... a good carpenter learns how to minimize his mistakes, a TRUE carpenter has learned how to hide his

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 24, 2016 at 10:09am

it looks like there is a widespread tendency on this site to look down on craftsmen, luthiers included, selfdeclaring itself as an artist, but even art is based on craftsmanship...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 25, 2016 at 8:31am

Knowing the rules and following them is what old Luthier's did, then came along the CBG that blew away some of the perceived rules.
Rules exist, some rules can be be bent, some can't be bent and some can be over looked. It takes a while to figure out which is which.

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 25, 2016 at 8:56am

One «Old Luthier's rule» CBG revolution blew away?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 25, 2016 at 9:04am

Box materials, box construction, box dimensions, instrument design,bridge and nut materials to name a few off the top of my head.

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 25, 2016 at 9:15am

An «Old School Luthier» can build a CBG that's superior as far as goes to playability, correct intonation and sound to 99% of the boxes we build, the question is whether he wants to do that, but the opposite is not true...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 25, 2016 at 9:25am

I did a acoustic guitar style build, but built a CBG style box using Cedar and it sounds great for a square-ish box. The shape of a CBG is totally opposed to what a luthier would build, but that is part of a CBG's charm. If I built it more along with what a luthier would build, it would essentially be a Ukulele.

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Voegeli on December 25, 2016 at 9:37am

I own a CBG built by a luthier, box is De Soto's Las Cabrillas, short Martin scale [24.90"], not at all type of an ukulele, but with two innovations never seen on this site...

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on December 25, 2016 at 9:46am

Agree with that, Paul.  I love my big box tenors and I am considering a six.    Home made stuff that let's me play (unplugged) with friends on factory builds.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 25, 2016 at 10:01am

Maybe I should of said "classical luthier". A classical luthier wouldn't consider making a box shaped body. Modern luthier's a pretty much game for anything.

When the CB instruments of several different types were introduced by poor musicians they were ignored and frowned upon by classical luthier's because it totally went against what they knew or were taught.

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