Kathy Matsushita Retired

[Ray Ussery]

Kathy has retired after 32 years of teaching high school English and will no longer be pinned to only building during the summer months from here on out.
She is starting a new Weissenborn project if you are interested in following along, I hope she plans on sharing with us here as well!
She's a fine Lady and always interested in answering any questions and willing to help and share her knowledge.

http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/

[Tom OBrien]

She's such a wonderful person. We have corresponded a little recently and she's really excited about getting into lutherie full time rather than just during her summers away from the classroom. She's such an excellent educator. I love her website.

[Ray Ussery]

Yes you are so right Tom, I have corresponded with Her off and on for 4 years now...I admire Her and Her work a great deal. :>)

[ken cierp]

You guys know that Kathy is a member of this forum right?

[kmatsu]

Hi, all! I just stumbled onto this thread this morning. Thanks for all the kind comments --- I do appreciate it!

And, yes, I have retired (as of this past June) and am loving it!!!! I've been pretty busy since June --- I built a second harp ukulele (I'd sold my first one to a fellow teacher), fixed up around four old guitars to give to friends, learned how to level frets and do set-ups and saddle intonation better, built a Size 5 commission for a friend of my mom's, and am now finishing up my first Weissenborn. Whew! It's been fun.

I just applied the first coat of Z-poxy to the Weissenborn. This instrument was so much easier than regular guitars, as you don't have the neck-setting & fretting to deal with. And my experience with the harp box portion of the harp ukuleles helped me with the hollow neck and peghead style of this instrument. I've been learning a lot on this one. If you want to see my account of building this instrument, here's the page: http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushit ... eiss1.html.