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Need to someone to build my Guitar. Who? Cost?

  • 19-11-2013 12:52PM
    #1
    djburchgrove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭


    Hi Guys, I have a Martin D-1 kit and need it built. Any recommendations and ideas on costs? Im in Dublin South


Comments

  • #2
    bad2dabone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭bad2dabone


    Gerry Hayes, http://hazeguitars.com/


  • #3
    glashanator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭glashanator


    Build it yourself?


  • #4
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Menapia in wexford


  • #5
    djburchgrove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭djburchgrove


    glashanator wrote: »
    Build it yourself?

    Nah Im useless!


  • #6
    Ravelleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    Perhaps you should indicate where you live.


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  • #7
    djburchgrove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭djburchgrove


    Ravelleman wrote: »
    Perhaps you should indicate where you live.

    Thanks Edited now!!:D


  • #8
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I'm confused as to why you'd buy a kit guitar and then spend another few hundred getting it assembled. Why not just spend the money on a preassembled one?


  • #9
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    building a kit takes at least 40 hours work.

    how much would a professional craftsman charge?

    a carpenter or plumber is going to charge MINIMUM of 25 an hour, yes?

    a luthier deserves at least as much as that as they are so much harder to find.

    add to that, what you will end up with is a guitar that sounds like a guitar made by that luthier, rather than a Martin.

    if it was me (and I've made 90 guitars from scratch), I wouldn't take on the job as you obviously want a Martin on the cheap, and a maker of handmade instruments isn't going to want to make a replica of a factory made guitar for less than he could make and sell a guitar with his own name on it!


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