First I have to make a proper saddle with one of these pieces of cow's femur bone.

Industrial saddles are plastic, gummy, rubberish, soft and flexible. Useless for sound transmission. Seems like purposely they make them sound absorbing, the opposite of what they need. In such an important part of sound transmission, the industry usually fucks it up.

So, my job for years is to make proper bone saddles for almost every guitar coming to the workshop. Brittle, responsive, hard, tone producing and sound transmitter.

Properly fit inside the channel of the bridge, very tight so no vibration is lost in friction.

Anyway...

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This is so cool… I was just looking at acoustic guitars today in a retail store and was thinking how even the expensive ones looked cheaply made… it’s nice to see the impressive craftsmanship and your attention to detail πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ™ŒβœŒοΈπŸ«Ά

Thanks.

Exactly, as you noticed.

Even expensive industrial guitars cannot afford the time an artisan uses to build a single guitar. Perhaps not in the ones I've built, but I could tell so much difference in sound, sensitivity, profoundness, when I heard for the first time a handmade guitar, that I was struck and moved to tears...

Industrial guitars make it through being solidly built, enduring, probably. But sound is deep, stacking layered and carrying power through harmony in handmade guitars, because the sensitivity of the artisan is taking time to fine tune every piece and the whole. Making a piece of unique art. Cannot be compared to standardisation and fabrication.

I’d love to at least butcher a play on a Paul Languedoc one day

Blessings on that. I've googled him, I didn't know him. Awesome looking guitars. Unfortunately you cannot even grasp the experience from any recording.

Let me show you my friend Raul from Bariloche. He was a good friend of my father. I've spent some days at his home. I've learned some tricks from him.

He inspired me to start building guitars and repairing them.

https://vimeo.com/35690396

Trey Anastasio plays custom Languedocs as the guitarist from Phish. Thanks for the link.

Wow! Thanks for sharing. That video is inspiring! πŸ«ΆπŸ™Œ 🎢 πŸ’œ

sometimes the old ways are the best.