MIMF

Adam, when I was a young brewer, Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout was one of my favorites. That and I would turn people on to dark beers by giving them Watney's Cream stout. Mmmmm. I just started drinking a "Junk Stout" that I bottled recently. Made with stuff I had laying around, and it's qui...

So I know Mario is a homebrewer, which I am as well. It's something I'm pretty good at having been brewing for over 25 years. But, I don't know that beer would be the one thing I'd drink if I had the choice of only one. I was a winemaker as well after college where I studied brewing and winemaking, ...

Not sure that I'll be free then, but I might stop on by if I have the chance. I'm in South Denver in the Corey Merrill neighborhood near Washington Park. Still working on getting a wood shop since our move here... Sigh.

OK, so how does one pay an entry fee? I don't want to start until I've payed my dues? Sorry if it's an obvious question... I'm full of those.

So now that I'm thinking again about wood and instruments, I think a challenge would be something good to light a fire under me and get the hand tools sharpened up. I've never made a carved top instrument, but I've bought material in the past for something like that, so I think I will try this, and ...

Thanks folks. I really realized how much I miss working with wood when I was handling those half finished projects. We will be doing a remodel/addition on our house that we purchased almost 2 years ago, and shop space is a part of the plan, well actually my only requirement. It was something I wante...

It's been awhile since I've been to the ole MIMF. I don't currently have a shop, and most of my tools are currently in storage. I've moved, gotten married, moved again, traveled, brewed a bunch of beer, done a lot of photography, but haven't been instrument building or woodworking in about 4 years. ...

Greg, I also have gotten CF from dragonplate. You can also get carbon fiber tubing from Into the Wind (http://intothewind.com/), that kite place that's on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, though I don't remember seeing that stuff in their store. I just ordered it online. Also, there's a plastics pl...

Thank you Chuck for your update. I'm glad to be hearing directly from someone involved with this. As an amateur woodworker/luthier, I'm interested in this. Not because it will impinge on any kind of living I might make from my hobby, but rather how materials I've accumulated legally over the years i...

Mike, thanks for the link to the Cuatro festival. I'm in Denver, and Chicago isn't a stretch for me to go visit for something like that. There's other things I'd like to do in Chicago, so it would be a good trip.

I'm interested in the Puerto Rican instruments he makes. Anything he'd like to share regarding the status of that project would be great. My wife is from Puerto Rico, and I'm really interested in the culture. Also, I plan on making a cuatro, but with contemporary 6 string construction rather than th...

Thanks for posting that, Arnt. The chainsaw trick with the wedges is a good one that I'll keep in mind. I sometimes think I get as much or even more enjoyment from processing rough wood as I do from making things from that processed wood. Something about seeing the beauty of the grain that was insid...