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Wondering if there are any players here. If so, what do you play? Whom do you play? Do you play on the competitive level or in tournaments?
Do you count and watch frames, you obsessive person?
Wondering if there are any players here. If so, what do you play? Whom do you play? Do you play on the competitive level or in tournaments?
Do you count and watch frames, you obsessive person?
HUGE fan of 2D fighting games. While I don't play them much anymore, I still own a few titles. Blazblue Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift, Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV, and Marvel VS Capcom. I can usually never find someone to play and I am not good enough to continued getting owned online and enjoy it Lol! So I stick with solo play for the most part. I love the work that goes into the art. I was going to get King of Fighters XIII but saw too many disappointing reviews and the gameplay I did see of it, I wasn't impressed. I will say that Blazblue is probably the hardest 2D fighter I've ever played. You can't just mash buttons.
Longtime SF and VF player here...but I'm terrible at them.
I love my King of Fighters.
Terry Bogard has been a personal favorite of mine. Along with Ken Masters. Love my fighting games.
Man I forgot about the Capcom VS _____ series of games. I dug quite a few of them. Also like Street Fighter Alpha as well. I'm with Mad Lust Envy on how the online community killed 2D fighting. Basically why I play alone or with friends who come over.
Reminds me of when I was at an arcade and someone walked up, inserted their coin into Tekken 2 and went right to Eddie. I looked at them and said, "Sooo you don't know how to play this game, huh?" and they gave me a look like I better watch out so they selected the character anyway. I just walked off shaking my head.
I play as I-No is Guilty Gear XX, and was sad they totally nerfed her in Accent Core. Started playing Aba more because I-No was made so weak.
In BlazBlue I play Rachel and Tsubaki, though playing Makoto is fun from time to time.
Not as into Street Fighter IV, but I liked the new characters in the "Super" and "Arcade" followups. Juri is my primary character now.
Ayyy...in my defense I've been a Ryu player since SF2:CE, thankyouverymuch.
See, you're wrong for me liking 'top tier' characters for them being 'top tier' or cheap or just overly used. I've been playing Fatal Fury, King of Fighters for ages, but I grew up also watching the Fatal Fury anime. Also the Street Fighter 2 anime. I have fond memories of both of those. Terry is the main character in all three Fatal Fury anime, and Ken actually HAS a purpose/plot in the Street Fighter 2 anime. He's always been more interesting.
Who I like to play is a different matter.
Yun is a top favorite for Street Fighter. Kyo or Yamazaki or Gato for King of Fighters or Garou.
Lee Recca in The Last Blade 2. etc. etc.
I've never bee much into 2d fighters; I used to hate them, actually. But recently that's been changing quite a bit.
I tried Blazblue a little while ago and found it quite engaging, which pleasantly surprised me. I've been seriously thinking about buying it. I've also been getting pretty interested in Skullgirls -- I'm a huge fan of the artistic style and character designs.
If you guys had to recommend a title for someone interested in getting more into 2d fighters, what would it be?
BTW, with regard to the 'tier' thing:
Although I can't relate to how it works in fighting games, obviously, this is the exact reason I stopped playing Armored Core games online. It got to the point where you could predict the average ladder player's build. Which is just plain sad in a game like that. So I can relate to the theory, at least, and know from experience how lame it can become.
While I certainly agree that people often exploit top-tier characters (Ryu, Yun, Sol Badguy, etc.), the motivation isn't always because they're easy to pick up and use to punish. Sometimes people just like playing as "the hero" or one of the archetypal main characters. They want to be "canonical," and part of that involves being in the role of the lead and envisioning the game's struggles as centering around that lead. Also sometimes people just get attached to a character totally apart from their play-style. Terry Bogard or Ryu have a backstory just like any other character, and some people may be fond of their personalities.
I prefer more unusual characters, myself. For me only a small part of it is liking the challenge of learning their play-style though, and the larger factor is just having the unfortunate penchant for liking characters who happen to be difficult.


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As part of an effort to gather more data on new businesses in the United States, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation sponsored the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a panel study of new businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation. The Kauffman Foundation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., (MPR) to conduct the KFS, which collects data about the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns of new businesses; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders.
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In his Plenary lecture titled Confusion in the Debate About Inequality, Dr. Leszek Balcerowicz (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland) addressed the problem surrounding the inequality debate. According to him, one source of confusion is the failure to distinguish inequality of opportunity from inequality of situation (wealth, income etc.). While is it easy to agree on what is the ideal inequality of opportunity (none) there is no inter-subjective agreement on what is the ideal inequality of income (wealth).
Chaired by Prof. Mauro Calise, the panel gathered paper presenters from a group of PhD students who have studied political science at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Following Hyperpolitics methodology, each participant focused on a specific concept – citizenship, law, capitalism – using the same analytical pattern: a "matrix" of twelve logically interrelated keywords.
Organized by the Polish Political Science Association (PPSA), this special session focused on the vital topic of Academic Freedom and its limits.
The Closing Ceremony of the 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science took place at the beautiful Neo-Renaissance Concert Hall (Aula) of the Adam Mickiewicz University, with a series of speeches given by outgoing IPSA President Aiji Tanaka, newly elected President İlter Turan, IPSA Secretary General Guy Lachapelle, WC2016 Program Co-Chairs Dianne Pinderhughes and Marian Sawer, WC2018 Program Co-Chair Füsun Türkmen, Chair of the IPSA WC2018 Local Organizing Committee in Brisbane, Katharine Gelber and representative of the Tourism Australia, Lene Corgan.
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To highlight the nation's continuing toxic dumping problem in African American communities, civil rights, faith based, environmental justice, and health leaders from around the country are planning a rally in Dickson, Tennessee on Labor Day weekend Saturday, September 5. Dickson is located about 35 miles west of Nashville.
Organizers of the rally chose to highlight the struggle of the African American Harry Holt family--the "poster child" for toxic racism. The Holt family's 150-acre farm and wells were poisoned and their wealth stolen by the leaky Dickson County Landfill. Five generations of Holts have called the Eno Road community home.
Although African Americans make up only 4.5 percent of the Dickson County population, all of the permitted solid waste landfills in the county have been sited in the mostly black Eno Road community over the past four decades--creating a toxic nightmare for its residents.
The Eno Road community has been the solid waste "dumping grounds" dating back more than four decades. The black neighborhood was first used as the site of the Dickson "city dump" and subsequent city and county sanitary landfills, construction and demolition landfills, balefills, and processing centers. The site is currently being used as a C&D landfill, garbage transfer station, and recycling center.
EPA records indicate that trichloroethylene or TCE, a "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen," was found in the Holt family's wells as early as 1988, the same year the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) issued a permit to Dickson County for operation of the facility as a sanitary landfill. In December 1988, TDEC sent letters to the Holts informing the family of the test results and the finding of trichloroethene in their wells. The letter states: "Your water is of good quality for the parameters tested. It is felt that the low levels of methylene or trichloroethene may be due to either lab or sampling error."
In December 1991, the federal EPA sent the Harry Holt family a letter informing him of the tests performed on his well and deemed it safe. The letter states: "Use of your well water should not result in any adverse health effects."
A 1991 EPA Site Inspection Report completed by Haliburton documents several contaminated waste cleanups (i.e., wastes from on-site industrial dumps, plant contamination, soil containing TCE, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes and petroleum hydrocarbons from underground storage tank cleanups, and wastes from a train derailment) from mostly white areas in Dickson County were trucked to the landfill on Eno Road.
The Dickson County Landfill is just 54 feet from the Harry Holt homestead. Only a two-lane road separates the landfill from the Holt property line. Yet, no government tests were performed on the Holts' wells between January 1992 and October 8, 2000, an eight year and nine-month gap in government testing, even though government tests were conducted each year on private wells and springs located within a one and two-mile radius of the landfill. Tests were even performed on duck ponds and the Dickson County Humane Society, a dog pound that's located across the street from the Harry Holt property. It appears that various levels of government--city, county, state, and federal--valued the drinking water of dogs and ducks more than the health of the hard working Holt family landowners.
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In 2003, the Holt family filed a lawsuit against the City of Dickson, County of Dickson, and Scovill, Inc. (Scovill Inc. is the company that owned the former Scovill-Shrader Automotive manufacturing plant in Dickson). The Holt family is sick and some have died of cancer they believe is connected to the TCE in their drinking water. Harry Holt died of cancer in January 2007. His 47 year old daughter, Sheila Holt Orsted, is battling breast cancer. The family is represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF).
In March 2008, two Holt family members with the assistance of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed another law suit to get the Dickson County Landfill cleaned up under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Both lawsuits are still pending.
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The official (but, as we have seen, the second) live steam trial of the John Bull will take place on September 15, 1981—the day the Smithsonian Institution has chosen to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the locomotive. She will pull an 1836 railway car northward along the Potomac River from downtown Washington over the tracks of the Chessie System's Georgetown branch. Plans for more permanent commemoration of the anniversary include the issuing of a special U.S. postage stamp, the filming of a documentary movie, and publication by the Smithsonian Press of a handsomely illustrated book written by our author
Rather than wait until other events or inside support groups came up with new ways to obstruct the experiment (the Smithsonian insurance office raised a last-minute objection but too late, we were on the road) we settled on October 14, 1980, for the wet run. To save money we would do our own rigging. Eric Gaardsmoe and Richard Farr, both of the Smithsonian staff, offered their expertise and muscle to move the engine in and out of the building. John, Larry, and our labor force all pitched in. We removed the cowcatcher, smokestack, and the copper safety cover pipes to lower the engine's height, and eased back the partially stripped locomotive on a wooden crib. Heavy rollers permitted the rig to move over the terrazzo floors to the east freight elevator. Down she went to the basement and along a hallway to the loading dock. Monday, October 13, was a holiday, and while the museum floors above us were packed with tourists, we were busy inching the John Bull onto a flat-bed trailer. The smokestack, tools, oil, and other small parts went into my aging blue pickup truck. While this was taking place, a second crew and truck were at our Silver Hill, Maryland, warehouse loading the tender. Weeks before, we had started work on the replica tender—a 1930 reconstruction of an 1876 replica. The original water tank was hopeless so it was removed and two 250-gallon fuel oil tanks took its place. Once loaded, the tender was brought to Fourteenth Street, near the museum, where it would join the locomotive for the journey south.
Our curious caravan was on the road by early afternoon. As the truck pulled over the bump of the driveway apron, I thought I heard the bell peal softly. Was the old girl glad to be outside under the open sky after all her years as a shut-in? I was struck to see the engine pass the Washington and Jefferson monuments; both the classical revival in architecture and the introduction of steam railroads occurred during the same decade.
The trip took two hours. We were blessed with a beautiful fall day. We were also blessed with a fine unloading site at Calverton, where a wye track unites the branch with the main line. One leg of the wye had a broad, flat gravel area just right for unloading. While this was under way, I went off in search of firewood and found a local farmer willing to sell me a truckload at an inflated price. When I returned, the tender was already on the track and the engine was being eased along the trailer bed with a hand-powered cable come-along.
Not long after unloading, an employee of the Southern stepped over to ask if we actually intended to run that old thing. When I said yes, he shook his head. Boy, she looks mighty broken down to me, he said. Now if you got up a steel frame, a new boiler, and some roller bearings you might have yourself a good-running little engine. Happily, our chief of conservation didn't overhear those remarks.
The late-afternoon light painted the engine a golden orange as we hurried to reassemble her before sunset. We finally had to resort to a portable generator, and while we fastened down the last pieces, John went off in search of the fire chief. The fire company had a meeting that evening and he didn't arrive until about 10:30. John wanted to introduce the water through the rear inspection plate just below the throttle. This was a mistake, for removing the plate tore the gasket. In all the supplies we brought with us, no one had remembered to include a roll of sheet gasket. But we had a tube of compound sealer that a Washington supply man had praised to the heavens. It was late. Nothing was open. We were fifty miles out in the sticks. So we tried it; it might work. We put a heavy coat on both sides of the torn gasket and rebelled the plate. Bill Withuhn, a Cornell graduate student who was working with me as a Fellow, advised us to overfill the boiler so that we would have plenty of water to cool her down. We filled the boiler and prepared to light off. As the wood took to flame, pale gray smoke almost immediately wafted out of the stack. She had a beautiful natural draft.


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A Pakistani man has been arrested for killing his daughter and her husband because she married into a "less important tribe."
Police say the 17-year-old victim and the 31-year-old man she married without their families' consent were tied up and had their throats slit with a scythe by the girl's family.
The family had lured the couple to their home by promising to give them their family blessing.
A police spokesperson said, "When the couple reached there, they tied them with ropes. [The girl's father] cut their throats."
Police have arrested the family, who said they murdered the couple because their daughter's husband, Muafia Hussein, comes from a "less important tribe."
The Daily Mail reports that, "The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said 869 so-called 'honor killings' were reported in the media last year – several a day. But the true figure is probably much higher since many cases are never reported."
The practice is considered "tradition" in tribal regions of Pakistan.
Earlier this month, a 19-year-old girl and her husband appealed to the police for protection after her family denounced her marriage. Instead, her family came to her husband's home and took their daughter, "swearing on the Koran they would not harm her and would hold a proper wedding ceremony."
The couple's lawyer, Zia Kiyyani, said, "During this the girl shouted, cried, and mourned for her life and her husband's life because she knew that they will kill them both."
Kiyyani says the girl was shot by one of her relatives. Because families can forgive the killer in an honor killing, the girl's father lodged a criminal complaint with the intention of forgiving the killer.
"That will end the case," Kiyyani said.


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40 Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country, saying, "Now we are ready to go up to the land the Lord promised. Surely we have sinned!"
41 But Moses said, "Why are you disobeying the Lord's command? This will not succeed! 42 Do not go up, because the Lord is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies, 43 for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the Lord, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword."
44 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the Lord's covenant moved from the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.
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Madeleines - French
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|Almond extract
|6 Drop
|To Taste
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|100 Gram
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|3 1⁄2 Ounce
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|8 Gram
1. Sift the flour, baking powder and sugar in a bowl, and then add the beaten eggs, melted butter and the milk and the almond extract, mix all ingredients well and get a batter like consistency, cover with cling film and let it rest for an hour.
2. After an hour fill the batter about ¾ of the mould, in the individual mould for madeleines which has been greased with butter and dusted with flour, the mould should measures 3 by 2 inches.
3. Bake everything at 390°F for the first 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 350°F and bake for further 10 minutes or until the madeleines are golden brown, with their traditional small bump.
4. Serve the madeleines along with you tea.
Instead of almond extract you can use the vanilla extract or the grated lemon zest.
You can also subtract 2 ½ tablespoons of flour and add the same quantity of bitter cocoa, in order to make the chocolate madeleines,. Do not flour the mould, but sprinkle with cocoa powder in order to avoid those annoying white stripes on the cookie surface.
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Calories 180 Calories from Fat 86
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10 g15%
Saturated Fat 5.8 g29%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 60.8 mg20.3%
Sodium 124.6 mg5.2%
Total Carbohydrates 21 g6.9%
Dietary Fiber 0.33 g1.3%
Sugars 11.3 g
Protein 3 g6.3%
Vitamin A 6.3% Vitamin C
Calcium 9.3% Iron 4.5%
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The survey, The Quality of Working Life, by the Institute of Management and the Manchester School of Management at UMIST, questioned 1,361 managers on their experiences in the previous 12 months. It found that 60 per cent had been affected by organisational change. While 37 per cent of those in family-owned businesses and 56 per cent in private limited companies had been affected, the figure was 70 per cent of those in PLCs and the public sector.
The authors, Professors Les Worrall and Gary L Cooper, note that managers in family-owned businesses and private limited companies have "a lower degree of exposure to redundancies, site closures, cost reduction programmes and delayering" than those in PLCs and the public sector. They also found the larger the firm the greater the exposure.
Most of those affected agreed that accountability had increased. But the authors say evidence of positive benefits with regard to faster decision- making, flexibility, productivity, profitability and having the right mix of skills and experience "is far from conclusive". They wonder "whether the gain has been worth the pain".
Looking at the impact on employees, they found that half the managers affected by restructuring believed loyalty had decreased (only 10 per cent thought it had increased). Even more had seen a drop in motivation, and two-thirds said morale and perceived job security had fallen.
The negative effects were most severe in PLCs and public sector organisations. The negative effects were also "inordinately greater" in firms employing more than 500 people. The authors suggest this indicates problems of planning, managing and communicating change.
One of the most startling findings in the survey is the difference in the way in which board members see things compared with senior, middle and junior managers. Chairmen and CE/MDs tend to believe that loyalty, morale and motivation have improved as a result of restructuring. Chairmen even say job security has improved. As one goes down the management hierarchy, opinions become increasingly negative. Senior managers do not agree that loyalty, morale, motivation or job security have improved.
The authors say: "This finding raises major issues about the degree to which the most senior level of management is informed about the impact of the change they are bringing about. What is most interesting is the apparent discontinuity which occurs between directors and senior managers: life in the boardroom and life in the rest of the organisation are two radically different things. The identification of such a clear 'us and them' hiatus at the boardroom door is an issue of some concern in a modern industrial society."
One of the most damning findings is that most board members think their organisation learns from its mistakes: most managers at all levels disagree. There is clearly a hiatus between director level and the senior management level on many criteria. Whatever the cause - poor communications strategies, difficulty in managing change, an inability to share their vision or values, poor listening skills - most directors appear in urgent need of appropriate development.
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Guitar: An American Lifeby Tim Brookes
How did a small, humble folk instrument become an American icon? How did the guitar come to represent freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality? In this intensely personal memoir and informative history, National Public Radio commentator and essayist Tim Brookes recounts his quest to build the perfect guitar. Pairing
How did a small, humble folk instrument become an American icon? How did the guitar come to represent freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality? In this intensely personal memoir and informative history, National Public Radio commentator and essayist Tim Brookes recounts his quest to build the perfect guitar. Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes sees how a rare piece of cherry wood is hued, dovetailed, and worked on with saws, rasps, and files. As his prized instrument takes shape, Brookes also narrates the long and winding history of the guitar in the United States. Arriving with conquistadors and the colonists, the guitar has found itself in an extraordinary variety of hands: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents wives. In time, the guitar became America s vehicle of self-expression, its modern soundtrack. "Guitar" is a rare glimpse of one man s search for music. It is sure to resonate with musicians and non-musicians alike."
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GuitarAn American Life
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Chapter OneMeeting My Maker It's a warm, sunny September day in the Vermont valleys, but in the hills above the bend-in-the-river hamlet of Jonesville it's already misty, looking like early fall. Stage Road, a dirt road that winds up toward the tiny village of West Bolton, is gulleyed by recent heavy rain, as is the long, steep dirt driveway up to Rick Davis's house, home and headquarters of Running Dog Guitars. Rick's face is comfortably creased like soft leather, a warmth of line unusual in one relatively young. ("Our age," he says, referring to another guy around fifty.) Early maturity is, of course, a positive and sought-after quality in a guitar. He's wearing a black turtleneck underneath dark blue fleece, khakis, mocs-the classic thinking person's cool-weather gear in Vermont, the Subaru of clothing. His workshop, in among the birch and pine trees just uphill from the house, is small, new, and crammed with band saw, router, sander, drill press, heater, generator, humidifier, dehumidifier, and shelves bearing all manner of hand tools and pieces of wood. On one workbench a broad strip of Indian rosewood is being bent into shape for the sides of a guitar. On another lies a guitar top-that is, the face or front ofthe instrument-with strips of Sitka spruce running across it for bracing. On yet another workbench is a nearly finished concert jumbo in Hawaiian koa, a tigerish wood with an astonishing complexity of grain, depth, and variety of color. On the fingerboard, he has inlaid his own mother-of-pearl designs on the third, fifth, seventh, and ninth frets: small maple leaves, all set at different angles to make them look as if they're falling down the guitar, as they've already started to fall outside. Then, at the octave fret, a snowflake. "I wanted something that would show where the guitar comes from, and cutting out Subaru Outbacks and Saab 900s was a bit difficult," he says dryly. From that moment, I am lost. Not because I know anything conclusive about his skill, or the compatibility between my playing and his guitars, but because of those maple leaves. The Fylde, as I now see it, stands for the first half of my life, the English half. I'll ask Rick to build me a guitar for the second half of my life, the Vermont half. Much later, after the guitar is finished, Rick will refer to "the eternal and infinite capacity of the consumer to confuse making a purchase with falling in love." I should have known better, I suppose-but then again maybe not. First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived, and unforgettable. I'm not sure I ever want to get to the point of making a rational decision about a guitar. Rick is well aware of his place in history-or, to put it another way, he's well aware that thirty years ago he probably wouldn't have been doing what he does. The custom-guitar business has existed as long as guitars have existed, but thirty years ago the chance of finding a guitar maker in the next valley, or finding a school of lutherie in the same state, was essentially nil. (Lutherie originally meant "lute-making," but the term is now used more generally to mean the making of fretted instruments, especially guitars. It's to some extent a snob term; Rick says dryly that a luthier is a guitar maker who charges more than $1,000 per guitar.) At the start of the new millennium there are probably more stringed instrument makers in Vermont per capita than any other state, Rick says, and as he is the president of the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans and compiler of the A.S.I.A. directory, he should know. Some of the more notable are Froggy Bottom Guitars of Newfane, makers of steel-string acoustic guitars with a national reputation; Roger Borys of Shelburne, who makes top-of-the-line jazz-style archtop guitars, whose customers include the late Emily Remler; and Paul Languedoc of Westford, who makes hollow-body electrics for a select clientele that includes Phish. Vermont even has its own guitar-making school, Vermont Instruments, in Thetford. To my dismay, I seem to be part of a trend. All over America, former guitarists, part-time guitarists, and would-be guitarists are looking ahead to their fiftieth birthdays and asking for the really good guitar that they could never afford back in their impoverished but musical youth. And if the fiftieth birthday isn't available as an excuse, then there's the forty-fifth, or the fifty-fifth, or just the next available Christmas. There's even an upper stratum of buyers who have enough disposable income to be able to call one of these high-end handmade guitars an investment-an investment that, unlike a wad of shares in Ben & Jerry's, you can pull out of its case and use to play a blues or some complicated New Age instrumental in DADGAD tuning. Guitar makers even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-always-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to- indulge-those-dreams: dentists. Starting slowly in the early seventies, then, and growing rapidly from the late eighties, an unprecedented number of guitar makers, some full-time, most part-time, have set up their own businesses-between five hundred and seven hundred and fifty in North America alone. These makers, moreover, are being granted artistic license to build guitars that not only are of the finest available materials but are also open to a fair amount of creative freedom. Some are making guitars that are as good as any ever made. It's the Golden Age of Guitar Making. It's a sign of how open-minded the guitar market is becoming, and how selective Rick can choose to be, that he won't even make a dreadnought, the standard flat-bottomed, big-bodied guitar (named after a World War I Royal Navy battleship) that you see in the hands of country and bluegrass players. He says he's never heard a dreadnought with a good mid-range. Strong bass, loud clear treble, no middle. Instead he makes five models, most of them far less familiar. In increasing order of size, they are: 1. The Sprite. A tiny, twelve-fret guitar, also called a terz, for "third," guitar because it is tuned a third higher than other guitars. It is an old style currently gaining popularity as a travel guitar or a high-harmony guitar, which is more or less the role a guitar might have played in an ensemble of the sixteenth century. 2. The Parlor guitar. A small instrument based on the size and style popular in the nineteenth century, also twelve frets to the body, being bought by Celtic players and women who've always hated lugging around guitars that were too big for the lap, too thick for the right armpit. 3. The Chickadee, with its sloping shoulders, based on a unique guitar made by Martin in the 1840s. The Martin original was a tiny instrument; Rick has enlarged it somewhat. He tells the tale of a woman who brought this unique Martin guitar to a show in Los Angeles, her chauffeur carrying it around and showing it. She was asking an ungodly amount of money, and nobody bought it, but luckily a few people thought to take photos and measurements, because after she disappeared everyone looked at one another and realized that nobody had asked her name. And the guitar, a unique shoulder-sloped Martin, hasn't been seen or heard of since. 4. The Mini Jumbo-"the oxymoronic guitar." Based roughly on an old Gibson body shape, with a narrower waist than a dreadnought, plus a cutaway that in its earlier incarnations looked like a biting shark. (A cutaway is the scoop taken out of the upper bout that allows the player to reach higher up the fingerboard.) There are two styles of cutaway, Rick tells me: the sharper Florentine and the rounded Venetian, the latter perhaps so called, he says, because it looks like a wave. These guitars may have smaller lower bouts than a dreadnought, he says, but a dreadnought has a flattened bottom, like a hippo sitting on concrete, and straight lines don't help acoustics-that's why speakers are round. So the flat bottom creates an acoustically wasted area, according to Rick. 5. The Concert Jumbo is his largest. Even this instrument, the koa one in Rick's workshop, seems delicate compared with the huge prewar Gibsons and even a standard Martin dreadnought. He hands me his concert jumbo. The sound leaps off the instrument, and I almost yelp. I had no idea how many things could be so different. Even the fret wires are different to the Fylde's, wider and more rounded, so my fingers seem to slither more easily over them up and down the strings. The case is half as thick again as mine. The custom work-the rosette around the sound hole, the decorative strip of binding that joins the top to the sides and the sides to the back, the inlay-all make the Fylde seem a little dowdy, even shabby: these were details Roger could have put work into, and didn't. On the other hand, yes, it's a little more ostentatious than the Fylde, but not aggressively so. It still doesn't feel like the cat on the lap, but it is a member of the cat family, at least. The Chickadee, the Sprite, and the Parlor seem too small-stocky and strong, like pit ponies, but not nearly as rich and musical as I want. But they are a different breed from the mass-produced guitars in the shop. These have a sense of ownership and purpose. It's like seeing someone else's children in the school playground: they aren't my children but they clearly have identities and futures that appear to be nobody else's but their own. He checks out the Fylde. I hold my breath, expecting veiled insults to the guitar, to me, to my bad taste and worse sense in buying such a guitar, to my irresponsible ownership in allowing it to get into such a condition. He lends me a catalog featuring a cartoon of a guitarist (glasses, long ponytail, long sideburns) on a small stage in a bar announcing, "This next song is about the feelings of an expensive, finely crafted instrument spending its life in the hands of a musical hack." He hmm's a little. He breathes through his nose. He picks up something like a large dentist's mirror on a stick and inserts it into the sound box to examine the entrails. He squints down the neck. He runs his hands over the top. I notice nicks and gouges I've never seen before. His eventual analysis is surprisingly encouraging. My amateur glue job seems to have held, though the edges of the break are still jagged. "Sand them down," he says. "Then fill in the crack. Mix up a little good epoxy-not the five-minute stuff. Add a little mahogany dust to give it color." "Where do I get mahogany dust?" "Mahogany," he says. He turns away, rummages around, and hands me a sheet of 120-grit sandpaper and a wedge-shaped block of mahogany that later I'll realize is cut off a guitar neck. "I won't use all that," I protest. He shrugs. "It's kindling." I can't get over it. This is wood from thousands of miles away, wood whose name is almost magical. Mahogany. Teak. Ebony. The exotics of empire, like sapphires, rubies, diamonds. "Mix up the epoxy. Add a little dust-less than you'd think. Trickle it into the crack here. Try to work the bubbles out. Use a piece of wood." He makes little prodding motions. Down to work, his sentences become crisp. This was what I should do, and can do. He does it every day. "Work it in all across these other cracks. Let it dry, then bring it down with a rasp. Or sandpaper. The epoxy provides a kind of finish of its own." In general, he pronounces, the Fylde has the expected wear and tear but has held up better than I feared. "This is not to say you don't need a guitar for your fiftieth birthday," he adds drolly. Rick, I will learn, rarely goes into sales mode, and when he does it's a little startling, like watching your best friend, meeting a girl for the first time, turn on a charm and intensity of focus you've never seen before, never suspected was in his range. I laugh, and Rick starts to sketch out, from what he has just seen of my playing, the kind of guitar that he'd suggest for me. We settle on a concert jumbo-not a huge, boomy box but one with plenty of balanced sound, with a cutaway so I can get to those high Django chords. It'll be ready for my birthday in June. And the price? Like most luthiers he has a base price, onto which he adds the extras: cutaway, special woods, built-in pickup, top-of-the-line hardshell traveling case. He clicks a mechanical pencil and writes tiny numbers on an order form. I hold my breath. Well, he says, it would come out to between two and three thousand dollars, depending on the extras. I release the breath. I've set myself a top limit of twenty-five hundred dollars-about the price of a new Fylde, as it happens. We discuss the arcane specs I've started to hear about: scale length, nut width. These technicalities start making me uncomfortable. How can you call yourself a guitarist and not even know something as basic as the right nut width? I was happier twenty years ago being ignorant, picking out a guitar because I was besotted with the name, buying the only model I could afford. I've got to be on campus soon, I tell him, to meet a student who can't figure out what to do with her writing talent. It feels like a relief to be heading somewhere where I know I'll be equal to the challenge, to know that in this respect, at least, I can do as good a job as anyone else she might seek out for advice. No problem, he says. Mind you, if we are going ahead with the guitar we'll need to decide on the wood. He pulls out from the bottom of a pile what he calls "the good stuff": two boards, 9 by 18 by 1/4 inches, of coastal redwood, probably eighteen hundred years old, salvaged from a blowdown. The great advantage from a Vermont guitarist's point of view: they're unaffected by humidity, which up here gets high in the summer but then disappears down into the single digits when winter arrives and the home heat goes on. He knocks the board with the side of his thumb and it thrums, an utterly unexpected round, rich, deep sound, like a drum. As I drive away from his cluttered-but-orderly workshop I keep seeing all the multifarious tools and bits and pieces, and it strikes me that there's no more mystery in building a guitar than in playing one. The pieces are like musical notes; it's all in the way you put them together.
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This is a wonderful journey through the history and joys of the guitar and the people who enjoy listening, playing and appreciating its lyrical qualities. The author, Tim Brookes, weaves a clever series of vignettes about the crafting of a custom made guitar in Vermont, while recanting the evolution of this hardy, stringed instrument. It is no small wonder that certain 'twists of fate' in the 20th Century, captured eloquently here, have proven to be the patron of the guitar and its hallowed place in America and the Globe. This was a book I could not put down. A masterful bit of prose.