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Location: NW Washington State | Bottom Feeders Luthiery Guild - membership is exclusive and requires a preliminary psychological exam. I think the original idea was to buy cheap beater Ovations and restore them by any means, no matter how inelegant. Now some members (subscribers? devotees?) buy fairly nice complete guitars and make FrankenOvations out of them. Others just buy miscellaneous parts and put them in the garage.
Some believe that it stands for Bottom Feeders League of Gentlemen. Seems like an oxymoron to me.
-Steve w. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Thanks Steve ! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Differential semantics, Steve. I'm the "Guild", Woody's the "Gentlemen". Based on quality of product & evident skill level. And, he's more affluent, apparently.
Further, my work resells for under $200.00, Michael's certainly doesn't, & shouldn't! |
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Location: NW Washington State | Yours are pretty skillful, but maybe less conventional. :) Your marketing program doesn't seem to be designed to bring top dollar.
I'll send you a PM about a BFLG project.
-Steve W. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So... if you have half a mind to join the BFLG you are overqualified?
See's has a lot more patients than I do. :rolleyes:
We'll work on your market strategy. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Some folks are just trying to make an old guitar play with whatever parts they can find/create.
Some are creating works of Art.
Some have a shop that would make the folks on "New Yankee Workshop" blush...
Some have a 'Leatherman' and a Hammer! |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Some folks are just trying to make an old guitar play with whatever parts they can find/create.
Some are creating works of Art.
Some have a shop that would make the folks on "New Yankee Workshop" blush...
Some have a 'Leatherman' and a Hammer! That post was a work of Art… |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Bottom Feeders Luthiery Guild ;)
AJ |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | My "marketing strategy" is to avoid SWMBO from having me committed as a profligate hoarder.
I think its the engineering & theoretical constructs that keep me strung-out. As long as the critter is reasonably presentable..... |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Fer instance, taking a Martin 12-string, unfinished neck, and converting it to a long-scale, 12-to-the-body, 6-string, on a deep-bowl body.
Why not just buy a baritone, you may ask.
Alas, you miss the point. |
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BFLG Question - Gluing Bolt-on Necks?
