Eleven upsides, an interesting conversation, and the worst idea America has had over the last 20 years...
I may not be well rounded in some ways but I do have a lot of diverse interests that often open paths to understanding and learning that I notice other, more focused people, tend to miss.
For example, yesterday I came across a series of videos devoted to the build of two Les Paul Jr type electric guitars that I binge watched because they were so good.
I'm pretty sure at this point a lot of the more focused readership is either saying to themselves...
"WTF does building a guitar have to do with boats or boatbuilding?"
Or...
"What sort of idiot is interested in any guitar other than a Strat?"
As for that last question, this sort of idiot thinks Strats are a dead end in the evolutionary order of things guitar and that guitars like Guild Thunderbirds, Gibson Firebirds, and the lowly (yet oh so perfect) Les Paul Jr stand head and shoulders above Leo Fender's worst guitar design otherwise known as the S-T-R-A-T-O-C-A-S-T-E-R. Admittedly not exactly a popular opinion.
That said, watching a guitar builder who knows his shit can be an eye opening experience for a boatbuilder and the five videos in the Les Paul build had so many neat tricks easily applied to the wood butchery we call boatbuilding that I highly advise you watch the videos with a pencil and some paper to write down notes.
Listening to Ben Sollee (who does not play a Strat)
So it goes...
