The stuff is taken. I'm just waiting for the game box from USPS so I can ship the stuff.

If I find anything else I will make another post about this. It saddens me to have to give stuff away but it's not something that I can really sell on ebay for anything (not too many guitar builders out there), since I can't really practice guitar making in any capacity...

Tai, did you give up on guitar making? You seemed to be very enthusiastic about it in the past,
Mike

Austin likes to punish people who refuses to buy a car and pay the high monthly maintanence costs.

I kinda have to. I do not have a space where I can make wood dust without consequence. I do not have the extra money to rent a space where I can have tools nor do I know where to get access to space that allows me to do that. I am aware that Austin has a hackerspace, but their fees are kinda high (I guess it's cheap compared to paying 5000 a month for a commercial space) but more importantly, it's too far by bus and I do not have a car, so it makes things hard.

In the far future if I can afford to buy or rent a house, I can perhaps use the garage as a space for those kind of things, but right now I'm kinda limited to making metal shavings rather than wood dust since metal shavings are much easier to control. However the problem remains that I live on the 3rd floor so I have concerns about whether a particular tool or machine will weight so much that it will cause a structural collapse. I don't know how strong apartment buildings are supposed to be but I have fear of them collapsing due to weight all the time. They feel a bit flimsy to be honest with you.

Furthermore, Austin's music scene has been rather hard to work with for me. I can't seem to get to know any of them short of spending time at one of those bars all the time (which if you follow the rules of the bar regularly, that's no less than 50 dollars for all the drinks and tips) which buys you *possible* opportunity to know a musician, who may or may not be interested in giving you work. Musicians aren't known for being rich unless they are connected to mass media, so I decided it's fool's errand trying (it seems the only way to get any work for a guitar tech in Austin is to have big name endorsements).

So as a result I have taken up gunsmithing. It's not going to be a vocation by a long shot, and I'm not even going to try and get a type 9 FFL. It is interesting in that it's very similar to guitarmaking.

I'm sorry to go but it just does not seem like I have the support of the community to continue guitarmaking as a vocation, plus at the moment there just isn't any infrastructure support that I can draw on (for example terrible public transport, forcing me to have to get a car, which costs a minimum of 500 a month in insurance, payment, fuel, maintanence, etc.) so it's going to have to wait until I get a better job.

Where is it? I haven't had much BBQ because it costs $$$ and that's not something I got a lot of at the moment (I need to save what I can). I like Rudy's but unfortunately not having a car means it will take HOURS to get there by bus, if it is even possible at all. Austin likes to punish people who refuses to buy a car and pay the high monthly maintanence costs.