Product Quality Reflection

During my project I communicated with many people outside my usual circle of friends and family, both in English and in Dutch, the latter of which I am still learning. This required that I listen carefully to different perspectives of those I consulted (the expert craftsman and people at music shops (Extract 2)), as well as it forced me to express myself clearly and confidently while researching, planning, and building my guitar. One example is when I talked to a man who played, built, and repaired guitars for a living at a guitar shop in The Hague. He was an excellent source of information and gave me detailed technical tips for building my guitar like, thoroughly clean the wood between using different grits of sandpaper, so that the larger grooves created by the last grit doesn’t leave scratch marks in the wood. I describe many other examples in other sections of this report.
Reflecting
Evaluate Product Quality:
To evaluate my completed guitar I chose 2 experts, one who plays and builds guitars professionally (Jeppe who had helped me build my guitar), and another who plays and sells guitars at a local music shop (Extract 2). I presented Jeppe with my finished (not

When I handed him my guitar his first reaction was amazement that “a 15 year old kid”, made it from scratch. I took this as a positive initial evaluation. As he held my guitar, inspecting it from every angle, and playing it he noted that “it feels just like an old Stratocaster from the 1970s”. I was overjoyed since this was exactly the model I tried to replicate. He said, “I like the weight, it feels solid, and it feels good to play”. When I told him I was planning to paint it Dakota red, he said “I like it as is”, and also said since Dakota red is one of the original colors of Stratocaster guitars from the 1970s he agreed that it would also be nice that