Stephen Eden -> RE: Stacking cash, aka the business (Jan. 23 2010 6:34:14)
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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. I hope this helps
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