Official Luthiers Forum! • View topic

Board index » Luthiers Forum Rooms » Guitar Building Forum

All times are UTC - 5 hours

Forum rules

Be nice, no cussin and enjoy!

Looking for teacher

Page 1 of 1

[ 4 posts ]

Print view

Previous topic | Next topic

Author

Message

vladykez

Post subject: Looking for teacher

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 9:18 am

Walnut

Joined: Mon May 18, 2015 4:16 am
Posts: 4
Location: Slovakia

Hi everybody.
I am from Slovakia (small country in the middle of Europe) so please excuse my english.

I would like to ask you about any ideas or suggestions how to get into Luthiery bussines.
I m 30years old and I have been doing guitar repair job for about 3 years.

I m self taugt, learning from books, videos on the internet, learning on scrap guitars and so on.
I live in a small town (about 50 000 population) and most of local musicians know me as a "guy who can fix your guitar", most of the time I am doing refret job and broken pegheads, necks, bridges etc, so sometimes I make some money which I mostly spend on new tools in my small shop.

Actually I wish to move my skills further and slowly start to build guitars.
I was thinking about some school of luthiery but soon I realized that I just can t afford it because in my country is just impossible to make such money with honest work :cry:

Would be amazing to learn from proffesional so I am trying luck on this forum. I was thinking maybe I could find somebody here, who needs some help in his shop so I could reach more experiences. Really I would be grateful for anything, I could start with sweeping floor in your shop, anything, just to get in touch with this beautiful craft.
I just cannot give up my dream

Thank you for any ideas
Have a nice day

Top

Glenn_Aycock

Post subject: Re: Looking for teacher

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 10:14 am

Cocobolo

Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:03 pm
Posts: 165
First name: Glenn
Last Name: Aycock
City: El Lago
State: Texas
Zip/Postal Code: 77586
Country: United States
Focus: Build
Status: Amateur

There are many fantastic (and free) videos on YouTube. One of my favorites is Crimson Guitars out of UK.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Top

Tai Fu

Post subject: Re: Looking for teacher

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 11:20 am

Brazilian Rosewood

Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:55 pm
Posts: 3820
Location: Taiwan
First name: Tai
Last Name: Fu
City: Taipei
Country: Taiwan
Focus: Repair
Status: Semi-pro

You can learn a lot by doing. If you're able to fix guitars or do any sort of reconstruction, building guitars should be easy. In fact repair is harder to do.

Get a LMI serviced kit and start doing...

_________________
Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Top

kencierp

Post subject: Re: Looking for teacher

Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:33 pm

Koa

Joined: Sat May 19, 2007 11:03 am
Posts: 1737
Location: Litchfield MI
Focus: Build
Status: Professional

viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=45044&hilit=apprentice#p595737

_________________
Ken Cierp

http://www.kennethmichaelguitars.com/

Top

Page 1 of 1

[ 4 posts ]

Board index » Luthiers Forum Rooms » Guitar Building Forum

All times are UTC - 5 hours

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: doncaparker, guitarjtb and 33 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to: