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Today's my first day after quitting work. I've had a lot of hand & arm issues this year, many doc visits, scans in injections and such, and in short the only fix offered was "don't do what you do". So I stopped, nothing else for it.
Recently discovered certain manual actions actually make me better, not all, but a great result - so started another Firebird build. From now on I hope to be making guitars & doing setups & maybe paint. For a long time I've done stuff by word of mouth so try and ramp that up a bit. Got a decent setup with separate spray room, done cars & bikes as well as guitars, can do 2k/urethane and nitro.
Not expecting to make much of any money at all here, , main thing is I love doing it all* and right now I'm majorly happy vs my sanity being right down the toilet before.
Yeah. Loud guitars save lives!
*except sanding. Sanding sucks.
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Sanding needn’t be a pain... depends what you’re using. Get some Mirka Abranet gauze and a decent, properly rated, dust extractor. It comes in block sizes, long strips or DA disks.
That’s what I use on cars every day and I wouldn’t even consider using anything else until I get up to relatively fine grade w&d.
Other than one or two spells of agency work to raise some funds when work has been quiet, I've not done a proper day's work in years
I'm lucky enough to have paid off my mortgage, and with the recent death of my Dad promising a little cash in the New Year I doubt I'll need to do another 9-5 again.
Which is nice.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Cheers chaps, thanks.
simonk I keep looking at Abranet, but using 3M at the mo all blocking by hand on guitars.
Roland thanks, it was just for fun, still should be I reckon. James I spoke to your man the other day, thanks again for that heads up.
Just an update before a 'made in UK' post - firstly after the original post someone from here made me a very kind offer, really nice and out of the blue... you know who you are, thanks again Man of oak.
I'm now registered solo with the gub'ment and bank and accountant sorted. Basic website up, need to add loads more but there's lots to do in the workshop.
Been overhauling & painting workshop & spray room, painting cleaning fixing etc. Where 3-4 months ago on some days I couldn't hold a pen to write my name, hold a plectrum, like that. And now I'm out there all hours. And got a build well underway
http://corvusguitarworks.com/images/fb2/primer_rear.jpg
http://corvusguitarworks.com/images/fb2/primer_head.jpg
Couple of other nice things, the guy who got me started building has been in touch after lots of lost years, he's also quit work and building so we'll be meeting up. And another old mate says come and play on their album. So all pretty good so far. Even the dog's getting into it, morphing into some sort of hairy extractor ... : )
http://corvusguitarworks.com/images/extracto_dogg.jpg
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Best of luck as the new venture progresses.
Enjoy