French Polish Is a Way of Paying Attention
It gets called romantic, but what I love about it is its honesty.
On thin finish, patient hands, and why certain surfaces feel less coated than carefully accompanied.
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Most Mistakes Do Not Announce Themselves
The dangerous errors are often the quiet ones that invite rationalization.
A note on the small mistakes that appear, the standards that catch them, and why fixing them is part of the work rather than evidence against it.
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Why I Make Guitars
The deepest answer has less to do with wood than with music.
A plain answer to the question underneath the rest of the work: not the romance of tools, but the human need music answers.
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