2026 - What will be?

2026

Although: Over the last few years, our limits have been pointed out to us more and more cheekily, and at the same time we are seeing with increasing helplessness that the limits of those in whose care we believe ourselves to be are expanding more and more rapidly.

Almodóvar?

2026During the turn of the year – TV time!

On New Year's day, we watched two monumental movies that perfectly illustrate the dull mentality of half of the American population: the new “One Battle after Another” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn and – definitely worth watching again – “The Chase” from 1966 with Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, etc.
And then, on January 2, the completely unjustifiable attack by the US on Venezuela! And on top of that, the incomprehensible speech by the “Führers”.

After Gaza and now “Venezuela,” it looks like we have to live and continue to exist with a megalomaniacal, shameless, crazy, and psychopathic working group of enemies on this planet. Where has this world come to? There are no longer any ethical and moral boundaries.

After all the threats to the world and this self-aggrandizing press conference, I have no more questions!

But it really is a shame! What will all the good, creative, intellectual Americans in the minority do now? Pinched, threatened, and regulated in this land of horror! 

New shape, new trem, new pickups!

My current project, which, because I am now in Madrid, I will only be able to finish in February in Cádiz thanks to my workshop.

And there are still more beautiful things in these dangerous times:

Bob Cillo

Bob Cillo, who lives in southern Italy, has posted an impressively professional video about Wandré guitars on YouTube. Bob is a video designer and photographer and has explained and illustrated everything so well. Perfect! Wonderful photos and video clips, including Gianfranco Borghi, who was the company's lacquerer at the time. And the video also shows that Bob is an excellent guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXV1hWhmfg

The truth about Greenland:

Here we see the Arctic Cartel, a group of Greenlandic seals that will soon be attacked by the US for criminal drug trafficking. On the right there is a group of scientists who are currently exploring the terrain.

Inventions and tragedies

The Piano tuner and Harald Hönsch's deflection roller

Over the years, we repeatedly received messages from people who claimed to have made important inventions and wanted to offer them to us, especially for our continued success. Believe me, it's not easy to make fundamental improvements to the guitar these days. And inventors' ideas are initially subject to their subjective assessment. I still fondly remember an old Donald Duck comic in which an inventor with shining eyes and a confused look on his face enters Scrooge McDuck's office to demonstrate his automatic orange juice press. Scrooge lets himself be persuaded, and in no time at all, his entire office is flooded with orange juice.

It was sometime in the early 1980s when an inventor with the same crazy look entered our house to praise his automatic guitar tuner. It was a combination of something that already existed: a tuning device connected to a small electric screwdriver to turn the tuning peg, which was supposed to tune the respective string according to the tuning device. It only worked approximately accurately, and I had to object that it might be better to look at the tuner and turn the tuning pegs with your fingers, practically verbally destroying his idea. But in order not to completely frustrate the inventor, I suggested that he should develop it for a piano. His eyes widened briefly and his mouth formed the following sentence: “Well, if you finance this project, I'll also invent a robot that climbs inside the piano!” Oh dear, the presumption of the inventor! Coupling an electric motor with a tuning device is the easiest thing in the world! It's questionable whether something like that even qualifies as an “invention.” And that crazy lunatic would never have been able to invent a robot in a million years. Those are completely different worlds!

And I still maintain that today! All this digitized, electrified nonsense belongs in the trash can. The Gibson company has also incurred correspondingly high losses as a result.

And – oh, how wonderful – this sign on Gyro Gearloose's garage: “DISCONTINUED INVENTIONS.” The fact is that not all inventions are any good. For example, making something on the guitar ADJUSTABLE that was previously fixed may be useful for the guitarist's individual preferences, but it can just as easily lead to mechanical problems that were previously unforeseeable.
Or later, in the 1980s, in the era of guitars with neck-through body guitars, brass hardware, and sustain mania, there was a guy named Harald Höntsch, an absolutely delightful guitar player, toolmaker, and inventor.

Harald was obsessed with the idea that the large spring chamber cutout for a Strat tremolo was absolutely detrimental to sustain. This interruption of the wood grain, the loss of mass between the tremolo and the neck.

So he came up with the idea of placing the tremolo springs behind the tremolo, which could only be achieved with so-called deflection rollers. Steel cables connected to the tremolo block ran over a roller to the rear of the body, with the conventional Fender springs attached to their ends to find their place behind in “harmless” spring chambers.
Armed with this idea, patent claims, and prototypes, he spent years scouring the Frankfurt Music Fair like a remote-controlled robot, trying to find buyers for his invention: “How about a tremolo with a deflection roller for Strat tremolos?”

Unfortunately, however, our dear Harald's peculiar obsession was apparent at first glance, which meant that potential buyers did not take him seriously from the outset, laughed at him, and, due to a lack of technical understanding, did not understand his possibly well-founded idea at all. “What do you want, you crazy fool?” But he is said to have received an offer from a Korean company—I think it was Samick—for around 800,000 DM. But Harald wanted a whole million and turned down the offer. So, on top of everything else, this crazy guy was also totally incapable of doing business!

To cover the costs of manufacturing prototypes, patent fees, trade fair booth fees, etc., this man even had to mortgage his house and farm, without ever getting a penny of it back!

Sadly, Harald died three years ago, poor and full of grief. Conclusion: To have good ideas and implement them, you need to have at least the necessary money. What a cruel world!

It's completely crazy how people, obsessed with a weird idea, can get carried away with such activities without regard for the consequences.

There was also a Lars Liebchen He had patents for EVERYTHING, even without ever having profited from them.

Well, I'm a burnt child myself. Some of my “REJECTED INVENTIONS” were not at all far-fetched. For example, my “Dreadlook paint sanding patent” – even copied by the Franconian musical instrument manufacturer with the “W” and registered as a patent by them.

And back in 2013, I already had a great-sounding wrap-around tremolo with a “cam ratio” that ran incomparably smoothly despite high string tension, but it was shelved due to concerns on the part of the company. But right now, I've taken up this idea again and perfected the design and technology. You'll see it soon!

NAMM 2026

Everything's fine without me! Everything's awesome! And there's no ICE presence in Anaheim or Fullerton. They're probably just killing people in Minneapolis right now!
Let's see what happens! Maybe the upright citizens will soon grab their weapons and machine guns, which they have in abundance at home, hide behind fences and bushes, and then mow down entire ICE squads with targeted MP salvos. Civil war. Thank you very much!

And as Billie Eilish so aptly put it: No one is illegal on stolen land.

New! Cooking with Dieter!

https://www.dieter-goelsdorf.de/de/places/kochen-mit-dieter.html

Trump-Burger

What might it be like? Some illegally stolen dog poop from the street between moldy slices of toast, rotten Canadian autumn leaves, and some CIF and/or dish soap as sauce... Topped with a large, dead fly skewered with a toothpick!

The new Italian situation...

And no two are alike!

Carnaval in Cádiz

What these groups perform after six months of rehearsals is simply fantastic and incomparable. And those who understand Spanish well could have a lot to laugh about here.
The Chirigota group sings about the incredible number of Jesus figures that are carried through the streets during the processions in Seville. There can only be one Jesus! The Comparsa group presents its scathing criticism of the Andalusian state of emergency, especially the healthcare system. And they go all out against the stupid provincial president Juan-Ma, el Señorito andaluz!
And how they all play the guitar!

REBROTE – Time-Tunnel

I need to back up a bit here. I mentioned in earlier chapters that there is this extraordinary hard rock band in Cádiz called “The Electric Alley”. And they have an incredibly talented and handsome, long-haired singer named “Jaime Moreno.” Apart from that, our company received an email from a Spanish guitarist named “Iñaki Antón,” who was asking for a replacement part and had attached a photo showing him with his collection of no less than sixteen Duesenberg guitars. No one knew this man, and his email was forwarded to me. I didn't know him either, but Paloma immediately exclaimed: “That's the guitarist of Extremoduro!” The band name rang a bell because Extremoduro had been a cult band in Spain for almost thirty years. They had number one hits not only in Spain but also throughout South America. I contacted him immediately and promised him all the support I could give.

In 2020, the band had broken up but organized a farewell tour. Then Covid hit, the tour was canceled, and the extremely charismatic singer Robe founded his new band, which was immediately extremely successful after the pandemic. Iñaki, incidentally one of the most virtuoso guitarists ever, meanwhile reformed his new band Ouho (his nickname) from the entire Extremoduro band. Unfortunately, he was badly affected by the virus and developed so-called long Covid, which meant he was out of action for almost two years. Shortly before that, however, I discovered a video of this formation on YouTube. Iñaki sang, not badly, but not convincingly either, especially since he also had to play his guitar.

And then I had an idea: here in Cádiz lives this incredibly good singer, “Jaime Moreno”. And he would be just the man to bring Iñaki's band to the forefront. I emailed him a few “Electric Alley” videos and thus brought the good forces together. Iñaki was immediately enthusiastic, two geniuses united, and the new band “REBROTE” was founded. Of course, all this only took tangible shape after Iñaki's long Covid had subsided.

We became good friends during this time, stayed with him in Bilbao (see chapter 2025) and followed the progress of the project. It wasn't all easy, because Jaime is married and has two children, and the distance between Cádiz and Bilbao is about 700 km. But it worked out, and they just had their first concert in a big live venue in Madrid. It sold out immediately and the audience was enthusiastic. We thoroughly enjoyed it!

left: Jaime, right: Iñaki

During a promotional interview, my contribution as “padrino” to the band's formation was also praised. “Dieter Gölsdorf, a luthier, made it happen!”

I don't like that. I'm not a guitar maker! And I hate nothing more than building a guitar by hand and being called a “luthier”. I've done all that often enough in my past, I was a "luthier" and it can be really fun when you creatively put something together, your own idea, without financial pressure: first the design idea, then sawing out the body, milling it, shaping it, rasping and sanding the neck, etc. But not for cash! From the beginning, my interest was in creating and designing products (guitars, etc.) and then reproducing them in feasible quantities! I see myself as a creator and “producer”! Please don't take that as megalomania! After all, we produce several thousand first-class instruments per year.

Leave the handwork to the luthiers, not me! When I have a new idea, I give the execution to a “luthier” and pay for it. Only for hardware projects do I fire up my lathe, saw brass on the band saw, drill holes, and cut threads, but only for the initial concept. After that, I have a precision engineer make it exactly to measure, or I have a designer friend create 3D data, from which the perfect end product is then manufactured by casting or CNC. Now you know!

I've always noticed that people have much more respect for craftsmen than for people like me. But: Fuck that! I was even a guitar-making teacher on the island of Formentera for over three years, but I didn't really enjoy it. I'm just too impatient for that kind of thing!

But here's the hard work::