Hi, Darren. What you say obviously makes a lot of sense but I am just looking for a safe way to get where I want to go and not only where he can. I don't know if I have explained myself.
I'll be in Buenos Aires for only a couple of weeks and that's all the time I have to explain to the guy personally how I want the instrument to be. After that, I return to Milano and only go back to pick the finished instrument in Agaust next year. We'll be keeping in touch via email and over the phone of course but it's still not the perfect situation (I'd prefer to supervize the making of my axe at least once a week).
I gathered, from what you told me on Jemsite, that making this type of finish may not be that easy and I don't want to get to meet the guy and be let down because he can't do it. I'd rather collect some information now and know that if what he shows me doesn't please me, I can point him in this direction. If I still think he's not up to it, I won't go ahead with the project.
I know I've been doing much of the job that could be left to him but that's only because I want my axe to be exactly like I imagine it.
Hope all of this makes sense.
BTW: I really dig your new tune!