I met with project manager Barry Copestake over zoom to discuss using dovetail joints on the volume experiment boxes. This meeting was important as it encouraged me to explore more mundane variables for the Volume Experiment in the interest of stability. In addition, receiving feedback and advice from a qualified project manager will help me become accustomed to the process, as well as improving my criticism reception. I often find myself getting frustrated when receiving criticisms, as I feel like a lot of feedback is regarding things that I have already done, or already plan to do. By actively putting myself into situations where I am receiving a lot of feedback at once, I make room for me to learn appropriate behaviour and responses. This also helps the internal process, as I have found that I am significantly less hurt by feedback now compared to at the beginning of the year.
The below video has been edited for pacing and clarity, but no dialogue was cut out (aside from filler words such as the occasional “um” or “er”, and some informal conversation.)
In a later unrecorded meeting, Mr. Copestake gave some advice towards some logistical issues with producing a working bass guitar prototype. Instead of using a steam bender (which I do not have access to), he suggested that I acquire a large block of wood and use CNC machines and drills to carve a hollow body which I can then attach a soundboard to. This would theoretically solve a good few logistical issues (such as how to add curvature to the back of the body, and form the signature “curved” guitar body design), although it does raise questions into whether or not a body constructed in this manner would hold under the high tension of the strings.
In the future, I will take more initiative to explore ideas such as the one above.