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I've mentioned before, once I got my head around all the sticky bits on a build, like fretting, tappering the neck and setting up the nut and bridge I began giving them away. I put them into the hands of people whom I know will play them and play them well, who will showcase them during performances and put in a pulg or two for me.
The price point is irrelevent in so far as I'll never recover my actual time on task costs if I charged what I feel my time is worth. That said, I have gotten some orders, one just recently delivered. Pricing is also dependant on who I'm selling it to, if it is some one I don't know then $200.00. Some one I know, $140.00. Some one I know well, $100.00. Some one who will probably never play it (generally these would be bought as novelty gifts) $300.00. I don't really want to sell to these people, I have too much of me invested in every build for it to be nothing more than a wall hanger or to end up in a yard sale. My philosophy is " I don't need the money and I don't intend to make a living at this."
Crow said:@johnathan
you said it brother!
you can spend lots of time building a CBG but others just aren't going to see it as highly valued as we'd like.
i say, leave the build-n-sell stuff for the guys that can build the good ones, and who are able to support the customer base.
i've found it's much more fun to give them away or trade them like baseball cards.
anyone up???? would anyone like to build and trade for a signed "Uncle Crow"? i'll trade with anyone! it's like pokemon, gotta catch em all!
@Dave Breault
"Fretless for the cheapskates!"
do you intend to say that by spending no money, refusing to buy real
tuners, failing to install real frets, ripping the piezo speakers out of
dime store toys and the use of migrant workers makes me a cheapskate?
and i suppose that since i pay my midgets half wages i must practically
call myself a scrooge?
next week i shall send my best dwarf out upon the interweb, where he shall
purchase for me one full set of CBGITTY's chrome tuners, thusly clearing my
name.
but don't hold your breath on the frets.
good day!
i was kidding. i don't really pay midgets anything.
LOL
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