Author Topic: My WezV guitar is finished, can't wait to get my paws on it! (Read 16184 times)

prozacbear · « **Reply #60 on:** April 22, 2008, 08:12:31 AM »

5 days to go......

GuiTony · « **Reply #61 on:** April 22, 2008, 08:12:58 AM »

Quote from: WezV

the guitar shops keep telling me i should be pushing prices much higher but i would rather not have them sitting about in guitar shops

There MUST be a better way of getting such workmanship and design to the attention of those who want to buy such instruments.

Retailers certainly have their place and I absolutely don't mean this as a total criticism of their place and role in the market.

But for the small builder, they either (a) add a large mark-up, making prices uncompetitive, or (b) serve only a small local market, or (c) divorce the maker from the player, or (d) all of the above and more besides!

There are plenty of small independent builders, most suffering with the same problems ... and there are (I believe) many potential buyers who would like to sample "different" brands that they don't see in their local store.

eBay - with all its faults and problems - isn't the answer, it's just a necessary evil.

So ... what is the answer? This should probably be a separate thread!

MrBump · « **Reply #62 on:** April 22, 2008, 08:56:11 AM »

Quote from: GuiTony

Quote from: WezV

the guitar shops keep telling me i should be pushing prices much higher but i would rather not have them sitting about in guitar shops

There MUST be a better way of getting such workmanship and design to the attention of those who want to buy such instruments.

Retailers certainly have their place and I absolutely don't mean this as a total criticism of their place and role in the market.

But for the small builder, they either (a) add a large mark-up, making prices uncompetitive, or (b) serve only a small local market, or (c) divorce the maker from the player, or (d) all of the above and more besides!

There are plenty of small independent builders, most suffering with the same problems ... and there are (I believe) many potential buyers who would like to sample "different" brands that they don't see in their local store.

eBay - with all its faults and problems - isn't the answer, it's just a necessary evil.

So ... what is the answer? This should probably be a separate thread!

Probably a small builder consortium of sorts. Wouldn't be too difficult or expensive, I'd imagine.

Ooooh, imagine the gas!!!

Mark.

GuiTony · « **Reply #63 on:** April 22, 2008, 09:00:01 AM »

Quote from: GuiTony

So ... what is the answer? This should probably be a separate thread!

Started a separate thread so as not to hijaak this one!

psy · « **Reply #64 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:07:59 PM »

I love this guitar, I like the slight Iceman details on it.

I've been fancying a 7 string extended scale through-neck iceman/mockingbird hybrid lately. I'll have to drop MR V a line once I have a some funds 8)

ToneMonkey · « **Reply #65 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:30:07 PM »

Quote from: prozacbear

5 days to go......

Any finger nails left. Last month I got a new car for the first time ever, the wait's bloody horribe. It's gonna feel like a long way from Southampton to Burton - well it is a long way - but it'll feel even longer. Train or car, at least driving you'll have somthing else to concentrate on.

EDIT: But on the train you could cuddle it all the way home.

WezV · « **Reply #66 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:45:47 PM »

Quote from: psy

I love this guitar, I like the slight Iceman details on it.

I've been fancying a 7 string extended scale through-neck iceman/mockingbird hybrid lately. I'll have to drop MR V a line once I have a some funds 8)

might as well make it multiscale as well!!! (fanned fret kicks ass)

Roobubba · « **Reply #67 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:57:56 PM »

you're a monster Wez, you hear me? A monster! :)

Roo

WezV · « **Reply #68 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:59:35 PM »

who, me!!

prozacbear · « **Reply #69 on:** April 22, 2008, 04:29:05 PM »

Quote from: ToneMonkey

Quote from: prozacbear
5 days to go......

Any finger nails left. Last month I got a new car for the first time ever, the wait's bloody horribe. It's gonna feel like a long way from Southampton to Burton - well it is a long way - but it'll feel even longer. Train or car, at least driving you'll have somthing else to concentrate on.

EDIT: But on the train you could cuddle it all the way home.

Someone is giving me a lift so I guess I can cuddle it in the back seat. Getting it home and plugged into the old Rockerverb 50 will be when the fun starts 8)

WezV · « **Reply #70 on:** April 23, 2008, 07:51:47 AM »

i did do some quick videos on my digital camera - just straight into the little rock with the treble and bass set at 12 o'clock

god awfull playing as always

http://uk.youtube.com/user/wezv

i was going to do some higher gain stuff, the guitar does it well but my camera doesnt!!

sgmypod · « **Reply #71 on:** April 24, 2008, 02:58:32 PM »

love the sound of the fanned fret guitar

WezV · « **Reply #72 on:** April 24, 2008, 03:53:43 PM »

yeah, so do i... i still havnt finished it because i might be tempted to sell it if i do!!

sgmypod · « **Reply #73 on:** April 24, 2008, 04:28:12 PM »

what pickups in that one and did you sell the padouk one?

WezV · « **Reply #74 on:** April 24, 2008, 04:49:34 PM »

that one has a manhattan/mule combo

the paduak vendetta is still in for re-spray.. not really i priority project but i think nath is doing it at the moment when he gets chance as there is another guitar being sprayed black at the moment... hopefully neither of them will be too much longer