Daisy Tempest On Andertons - Interesting Video

Tannin · July 2022

Dunno what people are complaining about. I mean everyone is saying "no experience" and "hasn't been in the game long enough" but if you order one today, by the time she finishes building it she will have been in the guitar business for half a decade.

prlgmnr · July 2022

Collings said:

I don't know if I've got some sort of brain poisoning, but I saw that thumbnail and immediately thought "that looks like a piece of....THE TREE"

Benm39 · July 2022

bertie said:

Benm39 said:

£2.6k for a Brook. And they're much nicer looking

FTFY

Hehe indeed! I certainly wouldn't easily part with my Taw, it's awesome and just keeps getting better.

JayGee · July 2022

BillDL said:

3 years seems to me like a long lead time, however if she is going to keep stopping to enrich the customer buying experience by taking lots of photos for the curated book for each one, she will probably need that long.

Maybe we’re looking at this the wrong way round. Perhaps the curated book is the product and the guitar is just a bonus. There are plenty of social media personalities who seem to make a good living out of selling expensive personalised content to their fan base and you could view this as an extreme example of that business model…

Lodious · July 2022

steveh said:

stickyfiddle said:

What I will say is she is head & shoulders above 95% of the competition on marketing, and I can absolutely see that being her most in-demand skill going forward.

I've witnessed several ways to succeed as a sole luthier, charging very big wedge for your product.
1.     Spend years learning your craft, like Rory Dowling & Rosie Heydenrych, getting better and better.
2.     Apprentice with a stellar luthier for a couple of years; Ervin Somogyi is the best known. Jason Kostal, Tom Sands, and many others have done that.
3.     Build a head of steam on the AGF, with multiple people praising your guitars.
4.     Get you guitar into the hands of someone famous: Jim Olson and James Taylor, Stefan Sobell and Martin Simpson.
5.     Get snapped up by TNAG or Dream guitars (requires some of the factors above for this to happen).
All of these pivot on guitars in player’s hands. And great guitars at that, able to command the high price of entry.
Whether success at this level can be achieved when the focus is predominantly around social media “froth”, I guess we’ll find out in time.

or option 6....learn how to load a blank into a CNC machine and attack a guitar with a razorblade / brillo pad. Get picked up by Fender / Gibson as a 'Masterbuilder'. Say some dumb shit and have to leave. Setup your own business with a reputation as a established luthier. Watch The Gear Page flock to buy your stuff.

Andy79 · July 2022

I watched a few of her vids. She comes across as someone who vaguely knows what she’s on about. Weather that’s genuine or intentional I cannot say.

steveh · July 2022

BillDL said:

Assuming that she is careful not to dismiss other builders and her mentors, or say anything else out of place

https://www.tatler.com/article/meet-daisy-tempest-guitars-luthier

"Daisy recalls how her first apprenticeship encouraged cheap labour and emotional abuse".

I particularly liked "bitter old white men" as well. Her clientele perchance?

euan · July 2022

A comment from my wife there was “if she is in Tatler then she comes from the right sort of family”

If she made a comment about sweeping the floors that’s a red flag about her attitude as a whole.

edit: just read the article. I’m sorry but she can do one with the sob story about being from a “poor” posh family. She doesn’t have a clue what poor is, she can go explain to a lad from Easterhouse how with her composer father, artist mother and holidays at stately home estate that she was just as poor as them.

Image: https://assets-global.website-files.com/5b3406fd9a62ab157c6f0cbd/5fb554bed2c0f02280325120_5fb54557ae2279f24bfa480d_Broughton%2520OutsideHeader.jpeg

Tannin · July 2022

She claims to be from a posh family? Really? With that accent? Yep, and I'm from the jungles of Morocco, born of a village sorcerer and his ape.

BillDL · July 2022

Tannin said:

I'm from the jungles of Morocco, born of a village sorcerer and his ape.

That admission should really be in the thread about white lies

Mellish · July 2022

I've a feeling that being a pretty girl is driving most of the media frenzy.

That's fine but is it enough to bring orders/sales? Not to my mind. I think the frenzy will die down and she'll struggle.

I wish her well, having said that and I applaud her for trying

Lewy · July 2022

To be fair to her, it must be tough being interviewed by Lee Anderton because you have to find a way of politely dealing with the fact that he doesn't really know what he's talking about a lot of the time. You can see the will to live draining away from a lot of the musicians he has on ... he kind of drags the conversation down to his level.

CHRISB50 · July 2022

Tannin said:

She claims to be from a posh family? Really? With that accent? Yep, and I'm from the jungles of Morocco, born of a village sorcerer and his ape.

Eh?

Gandalph · July 2022

Lewy said:

To be fair to her, it must be tough being interviewed by Lee Anderton because you have to find a way of politely dealing with the fact that he doesn't really know what he's talking about a lot of the time. You can see the will to live draining away from a lot of the musicians he has on ... he kind of drags the conversation down to his level.

Thats a bit harsh.

euan · July 2022

Lewy said:

To be fair to her, it must be tough being interviewed by Lee Anderton because you have to find a way of politely dealing with the fact that he doesn't really know what he's talking about a lot of the time. You can see the will to live draining away from a lot of the musicians he has on ... he kind of drags the conversation down to his level.

Well they say you have to be relatable to your audience

euan · July 2022

Tannin said:

She claims to be from a posh family? Really? With that accent? Yep, and I'm from the jungles of Morocco, born of a village sorcerer and his ape.

The Tempests are one of England’s oldest Catholic landed gentry families. Roger Tempest, the current custodian of the Broughton Hall Estate is the 32nd Tempest in a recorded line dating from the 12th century.

Aye you’re right, nothing posh about her family.

Kilgore · July 2022

CHRISB50 said:

Tannin said:

She claims to be from a posh family? Really? With that accent? Yep, and I'm from the jungles of Morocco, born of a village sorcerer and his ape.

Eh?

He's got "form" with this sort of stuff.

jellyroll · July 2022

Am I the only one thinking “Stringray”?

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