Why do older guitars often sound better than newer ones? Some credit finishes: lacquer (old) vs. polyurethane (new.) Some blame humidity, or the lack thereof. In fact, it’s the actual playing of the guitar that ages it. The vibrating strings literally rattle the sap away from the wood grain at a molecular level, freeing the […]
“Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain.” (Deut. 24:4) This is an actual law from the ancient Jewish legal code prescribed in chapters 12 to 26 of the Old testament book of Deuteronomy. If God cares enough about an ox to enact a law forbidding its exploitation, then how much […]
