Michael Dale Payne wrote:
If you have any doubt that you can fix, correct or replace any type of warrantee work that may come back to you 10 years down the road. Then you are not ready to start selling your work.
Taken literally, this could mean that after many years of experience, after which a builder has attained the highest standards possible in terms of build quality, they would be no closer to being able to sell instruments. I think I've attained a pretty good standard after building on and off for the best part of 25 years, but I'm no repair person, and never will be. I don't have the specialised skills (or tools) or the desire to acquire them.
Am I destined forever to give my guitars away to family and friends or is there an alternative? Here in my home town, there's a repair person who is extremely well regarded - he can work miracles apparently with even the most challenging repair. Why on earth can't I offer a lifetime warranty and farm any repair work out to the likes of him? I'm sure a customer wouldn't take that as a failure to uphold my end of the bargain, or would even care who carried out such repair work. Who knows, they may even be comforted by the fact that a specialist repair person is to be enlisted to look after their guitar.
Cheers
Pete
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