Celebrating One Success

An intense week of learning and hands-on activity is obviously filled with many little successes and a few (non-fatal) failures.

So, if I had to choose just one "success" to close out this little blog of my first acoustic guitar build, it would have to be this:

Beginning at 8:56 A.M. on a Monday morning, twelve rookie educators—under the excellent supervision and guidance of three instructors—went from this:

to this:

and did it in just 35½ hours.



35½ hours of build time, start to finish.

Twelve playable acoustic guitars.

And one was built by a drummer.


Thanks, National Science Foundation for the workshop & ETSU for the travel funds.