I wonder if there's a business model permitting a "floating" luthier there - the guy who would, for a price, level and crown the frets, the guy who would carve a boatneck that went from .870" @ the nut to .940" @ the 12th fret, the guy who would undercut the SS fret ends and mount them in bound necks, the guy who would (for a HEFTY premium) bang out the Unholy Grail - yes Virginia there is such a thing as a thinline Starcaster body! The woods are there, the tools are there, the requests are seemingly endless (though whether we'd PAY for our dreamboats, and how much, is not an idle thought).
I've been reading Premier Guitar magazine for several years now and for some odd reason they just love to review all the $3,000 - $7,000 totally hand-crafted super-premium boutique electrics; when the economy tanked I had the distinct impression that there must've been at least 50 guitar makers (and another 50 boutique amp makers) who had just decided the market could bear another $5,000 git at EXACTLY THE WRONG TIME, DUDE.... the world has gotta be awash with excess graduates of Roberto-Venn and Southeast Technical who are at best sanding bodies at Gibson and at worst holding down the night shift at 7/11 and wondering what the
hell they're gonna do with their skills... there's probably a few dozen in Seattle/Tacoma alone!
When I got deep into catering in Miami there was a whole bunch of us putting together jobs in a shifting assortment of ways, but one constant was renting out a kitchen from midnight until dawn - they're just sitting there empty and there sure was enough demand for catering. Whackness abounded - the three-day convention for 1400 Southern Baptists we catered out of the "unused" kitchen in a totally topless/bottomless strip joint in the
nasty part of town... :icon_thumright:
SO: Could Warmoth mount a swing shift of nocturnally-pale, furry luthier/mole/vampire people, banging out the ultra-premium Super-Warmoths from midnight till dawn? :icon_scratch: :headbang: :blob7:
(hellzbellz i'll move to seattle and cater the thing meseff, alli needs is...)
The woods are there, the tools are there, the requests are seemingly endless & I'm dead sure the talent can be found too. Dog knows there have been/still are a pile of people who are trying to build a business on Ebay assembling "parts guitars" but if that was going on under the auspices and supervision of Warmoth themselves it'd be a mindhumpin' killer move. So, how can I make absolutely CERTAIN this gets to Ken Warmoth? IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD THING, IT'S A GRRR-RR-REAT THING!!
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