Acoustic Guitar Construction

Sorry Dave, this playing makes me very nervous. He plays far better than me for sure, but what a fumbler.
Herman

I know, but still, it wasn't THAT bad..

Not that bad, he is quite a player, but I am not smart enough to follow his music; rhythm or chord progressions. I remember in the late 70 I would be with improvisational Jazz musicians, and one would make some sort of discordant progressions and the other musicians would nod knowingly, something like using a third inversion of a relative minor subsiding for the I chord in an already odd progression or whatever. I would be totally lost.

I think it's just a matter of taste. I loathe the 'wandering horn', looking for a note, type of jazz. And I studied a little music and frankly did not find it satisfying. But I really enjoy Lage's playing - especially when he takes off on a known theme like at the end of the interview, doing 'Freight Train' - straight, then creatively, bringing something out of the theme that is latent and waiting for someone with the right stuff to elicit it.
And surprisingly, he says in the interview that the ladder-braced Waterloo (under $2k) does everything he asks out of a guitar. And he plays some of the best ones.

But Dave, in this video he is playing a X-braced Martin.

Ok right <sigh> :-) I was talking about the Waterloo vid.

Senior moment(s) !