Are you experienced?

Jimi's music began flowing through my auditory memory as I thought about what you're up against.

In our modern commodity-driven marketplace, I have sometimes wondered who fully appreciates the amount of mental and physical effort poured into designing and building an original instrument by hand. My clients, of course. But those are rare individuals. Each piece represents more than 200 hours of my life: "Have you ever been experienced?"

In the custom luthier's shop, mass production and lowest-common-denominator consumerism are ugly unknowns haunting the market. If you have labored in solitary artistic persuits, you likely know these feelings. Thanks, Seth, for perspective.

I've learned I love the process more than the finished instrument. The doing — the solo meditation — is my motive. Howard Roark said it best: "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

It's nice to see someone else doing good work.

Comments

[Stephen Mallory]

Readng this, I know we should talk.

Very, very well said.