Stuart Mossman was a huge influence when I first got interested in building guitars. I had the fortunate circumstance of restoring what had been a prize guitar at the Winfield, Kansas Championship one time, and it was while working on that guitar, and a sister to it that I realized something beyond C.F. Martin & Co. or Gibson even existed. If you enjoy Mossman's work, take a look at Augustino LoPrinzi. Play one if you ever get a chance.
*the Japanese language doesn't translate well with English in either direction. It often reads aloud in a humorous way, but as a good friend of mine found out while searching for banjo strings in Tokyo, phonetically, the same word is... ummm... a toilet. If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
