What does it mean to have faith? Jesus would often times condescend toward His disciples with the phrase, “O you guys, your faith is so little”. He would say this sometimes after there was an event that demonstrated that the disciples lacked the perspective that Jesus had into the situation. …read more »
What is Beauty?
I have been pondering about this question, what is beauty. There are many opinions out there, probably more than many. What would define this complex, yet very personal word, beauty?
One definition that has been going around for quite some time is: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This would allude to the paradigm that each person defines what is beautiful within themselves. If you were to run this out all the way it would be like saying that freedom is being able to do whatever the heck you want no matter what anyone else has to say about it. Somehow, I know that freedom means something way more wonderful than anarchy. I believe that beauty also is much more wonderful than anyone’s opinion about the object in question.
In ancient times, design and artwork evolved into templated patterns of what was culturally popular, very much like styles and genres of today. If you look at each culture, such as the Egyptian, or Greek, you can identify characteristic modes that make them unique. …read more »
I haven’t written anything for a while and thought it would be good to get everyone caught up on what’s going on here at Moriah. As things have gone here, life as a startup company in hard times like these has been quite an adventure. I’m telling you, we feel almost like missionaries, chiefly because we do sense a Kingdom call on our company. I have said over and over that Jesus owns Moriah Guitarworks, and that is being really tested and refined as we go forward in this venture.
We usually start out each day praying for God to inspire us and keep our focus and effectiveness keen. This time in the morning proves over and over to be the most awesome time for all of us. …read more »
Over the last couple years, I have received a lot of interest in doing a single cut away model. Our hope was to come up with something unique, yet pleasing and beautiful all rolled into one. I have always had a funny fascination with the telecaster, and it seemed at the time (and still does) that there are very few designs out that truly honor the grandfather of electric guitars. …read more »
I was thinking it would be fun to write about a time long ago, 30 years in fact, about my experience at the Guitar Research and Design center. This would be a fitting prologue to the notes we have transcribed and made available to you. I have been in touch with Charles Fox recently and he has given a hearty approval to sharing these with you.
It was in the autumn of 1978, that I was pondering the best way to proceed with learning how to be more rounded in my instrument building education. The year before, I had taken an independent study at my college in instrument building, and had built a couple mandolins. They turned out pretty well, but I knew that I needed some good instruction to cement together all of my own study experience. After discussing this with my counselors and college administration, I was given permission to enroll in a luthier school.
HOME OF GUITAR RESEARCH AND DESIGN CENTER IN VERMONT
At that time, in 1978 there was only two schools on the go. …read more »
