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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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I'd think so. I suspect I'd spend just a little bit more time than most making it perfect - and playable-perfect. I'd go the extra mile to get instruments back into the hands of their owners where they'll get another hundred years from them - with proper care.

The modern guitar really isn't that old. So, we've only got a generation or two of luthiers who work on them, maybe a couple and a bit more generations of repair persons. 'Snot like the violin, where you have hundreds of years of expertise. Hell, the guitar industry is really only just starting to deal with forgeries, where the violin industry is rife with them.

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A little bit of wood and some wire and strings and you can build yourself a Stradivarius

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Well, no... No, you can't. But, you can build a violin that's a fuck of a lot better. There's not that much special about them - and anything special about them can easily be recreated today. There's a company in France that will make you an exact recreation of any violin you can bring them - and it's non-destructive, meaning you still keep the original violin.

The whole things a sham where violins cost millions of dollars simply because they say they do. You can, quite literally, recreate every single tone from a violin that's less than five figures in cost.

(I've watched a few documentaries and read a bunch.)

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I meant something just as good or better, not a literal Stradivarius, but you got the point.