Howdy again Joel from a Texan residing in CO
The school you mentioned is likely a decent school as well. Maybe you'd want to pay them a visit?
A lot of the schools will most likely not take the GI Bill. You may have to be willing to go to AZ and
use it at the school there. That school is at a college and I believe if I remember correctly is a 6 mo. course?
Maybe someone here with more knowledge of it can chime in on the details of that.
As far as a business goes, you've got the right idea about doing repairs, and selling used guitars. And it
would help to also market guitars for other luthiers at least to help you get started. Expect it to take several
years to get things going. I've been in business a long time and am just getting the ball rolling as a luthier.
If you work at it full time expect it to take as much as 5 years to see any kind of profit. Even then it can be
blessed to abundance, or turn out to be a meager side income. It's up to you to make it all it can be.
I wouldn't even consider selling any guitars (at least with your name on them) until you've built a dozen or so.
What makes a luthier is not just some kind of formal training and tech knowledge, but rather experience through
making mistakes and improving as a result of each. The repair experience is a must because for most luthiers,
it's a mainstay of income. At least in the beginning. This forum and the MIMF mentioned above are two of the best
on the web for help and info and there's an awesome group of folks here joyfully willing to help and share info.
They encourage each other along and help keep each other in a state of reality in their thinking.
Go for it Joel! I assume you're a young man and now is the best time to get started with it
