Official Luthiers Forum!

For any who might be interested, my website and associated email will close down circa mid September as I continue to wind down the business side my shop.

I don't want to proliferate my new email for obvious reasons, but you can still PM me through this Forum and I'll get back to you.

Thanks for all the years of guitar talk!

Hank

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Hank Mauel

Thanks for the heads up, Hank. Good luck to you.

I've enjoyed your posts!
Best of luck to you .

Mike

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Mike Collins

Best wishes my friend!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

Good luck Hank. Keep posting occasionally if the muse strikes.

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

Wind down the business side, but not the building side.
That has the faint sound of enjoying the work more!

What's next, a return to racing, perhaps?

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

I wish! No, the racing days are over. Had 20+ great years until the level of aggression went up in the newby drivers who thought there was something to prove by winning a "vintage" car race. I take my Lotus 7 out on the country back roads in the Sierra foothills in good weather and get it sideways occassionally.

As for building...we'll see. Right now parental care is taking much of my time and 5 grandkids and all their activities take most of the rest!<g> For everything else there is MasterCard........

I am slowly disposing of my 40+ years collection of wood...will probably keep enough in case one of the grandkids gets serious about guitar playing, then I'll build them one.

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Hank Mauel

Hank,

Sounds like you're out to enjoy yourself. Have fun, and best of luck to you!

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Hank I wish you the best. Enjoy those grandkids!!!!!

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Beautiful and unusual tone woods at a reasonable price.
http://www.rctonewoods.com/RCT_Store
The Zootman
1109 Military Rd.
Kenmore, NY 14217
(716) 874-1498

In the few conversations I've had with Hank he has truly been a stand up guy, I'm sure the forum will miss you. But it sounds like you are making a good decision and your heart is in the right place.

Enjoy the family

Joel.

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http://Michaudmade.com

Hank
Your input will be sorely missed - by me and everyone else - but you gotta take care of family and yourself - behave and enjoy....
Cheers
Charliewood

Hank - best to you going forward. Hope you will feel free to chime in around here from time to time.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Hank, I hope you know how much we all appreciate you and your terrific lutherie career, as well as the contributions you've made here. I hope you continue to have opportunity to hang out here and contribute to the knowledge base of the next generation of luthiers.

Blessings on you!

Don

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."