Everyone wants authority. Taking responsibility is more important.  It's our gut reaction to walk into a meeting/work place/internet forum and want to be the one that everyone nods their heads to, but being the guy who says,...

I love building resonator guitars. LOVE.  Every day the feeling will find it's way to the surface, " Why me?" It's just awesome. ...

Brass resonator guitar start to finish ...

Gee golly brass is nice. This one is headed over the pond to James Home of Tone. ...

If building guitars has 1,00 steps, probably 800 of them are in teh locating/setup. Smithers does them all, very well.   ...

Ever bit off more than you can chew? Work 80 hours in a week? How was that for ya? I read something in regards to repeat-ability in regards to physical effort and working out that struck a chord. Eighty percent of your...

I heard a really great phrase the other day. The context was chemotherapy medication but I think it can be applied elsewhere usefully - the "Optimal Minimum". Because chemotherapy can have negative consequences you can't...

Yesterday I saw a video of Christopher Porterfield playing Away in A Manger on his Mule, his new baby sitting in his lap and his wife filming. Yesterday I also read an interview with a maker of stuff who used a lot of words...

I read a book by Mark Divine and in it was this quote. "Burn the boat." The point was committing to do something before you knew how to do it.  Arrive on shore, and then burn the boat.  Not as a test of strength, but...