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RE: Stacking cash, aka the business (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
well I have been setting up on my own over the last two years. So i think i can answer your questions fairly easily.
I funded my way with an evening job and savings. I bought the expensive stuff with savings £2k and the rest I built up as i went along. When i needed a tool I'd save up and buy it , I dont buy cheap tools. Then by the time I had made my first guitar in my own workshop 1 year! I sold it and with the money from that i bought 3 guitars worth of wood! After the second year of business I now have 2 years of wood stock, which is growing faster now, lots of tools for one off jobs and only have to worry about making sure I have enough glue and polish!
I aquired my skills in two ways firstly by and evening course. I built a guitar over one year with Stephen Hill and Pablo Requena. Then I managed to get an apprenticship with pablo and worked, for free, for two years. when my apprenticeship was over I worked doing repairs for pablo while i setup my shop.
Fortunatly working for pablo set me up with alot of contacts, He even sold the first guitar I had built in my own workshop. Other good methods were ebay where I sold an earlier guitar cheaper than i would have liked but plastered my website all over it so i got other insterest through one cheap sale.
RE: Stacking cash, aka the business (in reply to Stephen Eden)
I remember you from my visits to Lewes. Stephen and Pablo. I remember Pablo showing me a guitar you were making in his workshop, I think it was your first instrument but could be wrong. Very impressive. Pablo was doing some work on a Gerundino I owned. You may remember? Good to read about your increasing success.
RE: Stacking cash, aka the business (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
Jim
I do remember you coming down to Pablos workshop I was polishing my first Blanca. I dont remember the Gerundino though. I have a few guitars up in the glasgow area now they are all classicals up there though. A couple sold through Allan Neave.
Deteresa1
No problem. Are you thinking about becoming a luthier? It takes along time before you can start to make a living at though! Ive been at it for six years and finally starting to earn enough to get by.
RE: Stacking cash, aka the business (in reply to Stephen Eden)
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Are you thinking about becoming a luthier? It takes along time before you can start to make a living at though! Ive been at it for six years and finally starting to earn enough to get by.
I'd love to have that skill and make a guitar to my own personal requirements. I mean, to touch the wood and decide if it's too heavy or too thick, that sort of thing, but it's only a dream. I guess the biggest problem is getting materials of sufficient quality and age to allow consistency in result?
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