Newborn

Yesterday I mentioned I was going to pick up my newly renovated guitar and said I wanted to drive all the way because I wanted to see something different. That got a bit rediculous since I happened to choose the one day with a lot of mist, and it was going to last all day. I could only see 3-400m ahead and didn't see much at all, apart from the last fifteen minutes of the three and a half hour drive when the sun broke through the mist.

I was given the instrument, a guitar from approx 1940 or earlier. When I got it it wasn't playable at all but I liked the shape of it and wanted to get it renovated. After a while I found a guitar-builder in Laholm, across the country at the west coast. We discussed how to renovate it a lot and I decided in the end that I wanted him to make it into a five string guitar because the neck was so narrow I would have difficulty to play it with my rather large fingers. It's also tuned a little different to a normal guitar. I got the idea from this musician, Jacob Collier, who "invented" his instrument. My idea is to play a different kind of music from my normal repertoar, more like folk music. We'll see where I'll go with it.

Carl, the guitar builder, lives 260 km away, literarily a coast to coast drive but I'm so glad I got to meet him in his workshop, he's an inspirational guy and makes beautiful guitars. I'm also very happy about what he did to my guitar, it will be a challenge to learn to play it but that's what I wanted. 
First extra is leaving home this morning and the weather I was facing, the second is a view from the beach (Mellbystrand) on the other side of Sweden.