Working on my strumstick today, I wasn’t plesaed with the first one I made I learned some lessons from it and we’ll see if I learned enough lessons.

lessons:

• Tone wood was needed for body, The first one sounds thin.
• Easier construction of body walls by bending the neck wood instead of cutting the body curve
• Tail stock
• leave enough head stock from the neck to make the head out of the same wood as the neck
• Finish wood to prevent staining, open pours in grain pick up dirt from player’s skin

Maybe I’ll sell the first one on craigslist when I get the other one done

Lately I have been watching Ted Talks topics from green fules and politics of energy to the recount of a brain surgeon recounting her stroke. And I have to tell you all that these bite sized talks from the worlds great thinkers are as thought provoking as they are entertaining. go and watch http://www.ted.com then leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Feeling a little torn today I love my Ipod it is sleek sexy and even smells good (that’s another story) But I can only interface with it through Itunes. and that program is a slug. oh and don’t get me started on the DRM. It’s like I have this 57 gibson Les Paul in mint condition and I keep it in a cardboard box taped together with duct tape. Or a brand new Porche Boxter that I keep parked under a sappy walnut tree in late summer. I have only ever purchaced 3 songs that I have downloaded from Itunes (free cards from starbucks) I don’t need or desire the itunes store. I wish I had a simpler interface like I had with my i-River you plug it in and it looks like a hard drive to your computer and you just drag the friggin files to it. SIMPLE. ArRg!