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John Santamaria and Xeno Muller are planning to make a series of performance videos using Whittemore classical guitars. John came by today to get a little more play time on his favorite — a Whittemore DF. What a great player!! Thanks John!
New rosettes are in progress
Making a rosette is a true labor of love — a totally different kind of woodworking than building a guitar. Miniature, needing to cut wood 0.5 mm or less. And all just for decoration. One great by-product of rosette work is LOTS of colorful shavings.
“Cigar” being cut to generate tiles that will be the center of the rosette. The cigar is a grid of 11×11 with each square 0.5 mm x 0.5 mm.
Rosette line pattern based on a rosette made by Andrea Tacchi.
Check out the sapwood center line on the back of the new guitar.
Beautiful Guatemalan Rosewood back ready for bracing
Side scrap wood being planed to use as matching headplate
This week I am working with two great Southern California guitarists — Xeno Muller and John Santamaria — to generate a few classical guitar performance videos featuring Whittemore Classical Guitars. Check here for updates as we make these videos. Thanks to Xeno for the future video and audio work, and for playing, and to John for his great right hand!
Note that our shop cat Poppy will be supervising!
Poppy in her sunspot
Beautiful Indian rosewood back in the white
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If you’re considering adding a blog to your site, you’ll want to have a plan beforehand. Planning your blog will help your subject matter remain consistent over time. It’ll also help you determine whether or not there’s enough material to maintain a steady stream of posts.
One pitfall many new bloggers run into is starting a blog that isn’t posted to frequently enough. A shortage of recent posts can give your visitors a bad impression of your business. One may think “I wonder if they’re still in business” or “they may want to hire a writer.”
A blog, like any other customer facing aspect of your business, communicates your brand. If it isn’t maintained and given proper attention, people will notice. Post regularly and keep your content fresh. Give your audience a reason to visit often.
If you write about a variety of subjects, categories can help your readers find the posts that are most relevant to them. For instance, if you run a consulting business, you may want some of your posts to reflect work you’ve done with previous clients, while having other posts act as informational resources. In this particular case, you can set up 2 categories: one labeled Projects and another labeled Resources. You’d then place your posts in their respective categories.
If you’re new to WordPress you may be wondering what’s the big deal behind Pages and Posts. At first glance they appear to be one and the same: if you were to create either a new page or a new post you’d be presented with nearly identical interfaces and in many cases the public appearance of pages and posts will look the same.
Don’t let this fool you. There’s a very fundamental difference between the two and that difference is what makes CMSs, like WordPress, great platforms for integrating blogs with traditional websites.
Think about the kind of pages that make up a typical website. Most often you’ll see pages like “Home”, “About Us”, “Services”, “Contact Us”, etc. Within WordPress these are often treated as Pages; documents that have no particular regard for the time they were posted.
For example, when you visit the “About Us” page of your favorite company’s website you don’t expect the content to be very different from what was available there a week ago.