Sometimes words & notes, much of the time wood & wire... that's my life. Has been for decades. Here's a brief snapshot of this moment: Making some technical changes behind the scenes on the site, so this update is light on individual pictures on the current builds page for you clients (and voyeurs) but there'll be a bunch of GREAT ones next time!
Usually I take most of January off, but this year there was so much going on I didn't - I was out wood shopping and cutting & gluing up before the end of the first week of '16. Pushing since, they're starting to come together (and push the ones already going out of the nest), with five just about ready for departure next week, six coming out of finishing to replace those with necks on above the assembly bench, a stack of partially routed bodies that'll be heading into sanding when done (to fill up finishing again), another stack of rough cut body blanks now all edged and ready to be the next pile by the routing bench, and a pile of wood with half-body-shapes drawn on it ready for final planing gluing and cutting.
Necks? About 15 awaiting headstock veneers (on the list for next week) and final shaping / laser logo burning. Birdsong AND Hy5 5-string. SD Curlees you ask? Three bodies in process and about 10 necks (but more about those in a month or two...) ~ plus a few oddballs (art deco D'AQUILAs, a guitar and a Decobass that's almost done). Plus a dusty mound of Texas lap steels to jump back on. This is GREAT! I can't even tell you how much fun I'm having in the Wingfeather Workshop with the doors all open and the music playing; I CAN convey the gratitude of my current helpers for all the work I am sharing with them and what that brings to THEIR lives and tables (they thank you all VERY much); and as always everyone involved in this so-not-fast-food world of boutique artisan craft, whether it's craft brew or Birdsong basses or Grandma's ass-kicking Sunday sauce thanks you for your appreciation of and patience with the process.
OH YEAH - and my "Album release of the month" for March is a 13-song acoustic set called Finlay's Ripples. Read about it and find free download links here: www.sbeckwith.com/music-1
See you next week with some more pictures!
~Scott
