I have begun taking photos of every finished guitar and trying to keep a careful record. But… why didn’t I do that from the beginning? I have made some instruments with some amazing colour combinations, decorations or downright stunning wood and I will probably never see them again. On the one hand that is the way of a creative line of work but on the other hand we can become inspired by what we have done in the past and the photos make for good publicity

Looking back is good in another way too: Now I can perform certain tasks in a much shorter time and to a greater level of perfection but in the past I did some extra work on decorative elements which today I might shun as unnecessary. I might never do those things again but I would like to have them around to refer to. For the most part my rosettes have become better with time but maybe some of the first ones had a freshness or originality that are worth preserving.