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I just spend the last 2 weeks really honed in on Altra Volta. It was our 20th anniversary concert and it simply required all of our focus in order for the show to live up to it’s expectations. I initially looked at is as a huge set back in GuitarBorn because I essentially put it on hold. BUT after further reflection, I made the conscious effort to shuffle priorities not because I had to, but because I wanted to. The members of this group live and breath the GuitarBorn mant

This week, the long awaited guitar tuners I’ve ordered from Japan are finally here. I’ve created a ritual of opening parcels in the shop. I made an unboxing video for Noel to share the experience of seeing these tuners for the first time. The video is weirdly satisfying. The guitar neck has been finally set to the body, and now waiting for fine tuning and fitment. Last week, before I set the neck, I got ahead of the finishing part of the build. This means, the bodies have

This past Saturday, I found myself staying up until 3:30am in the morning working on the Violetta Parra piece called “Gracias a la vida”. The challenge with this piece is that I don’t have any sheet music for it, so I'm having to learn it by watching the YouTube video at half speed then annotating it on paper by hand… It’s tedious, but it’s fun and I’m getting it. I’ve been doing stuff like this since high school, just never as complex. But back to this 3:30am thing, it was