A New Pickup!

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All --

My friend John at JBM Guitars has decided to quit making his Replicator pickups, and has transferred production to us.

I look forward to winding some for builders out there. Yet another task the GuitarAttack Team! Note: this is a particularly tricky pickup to make.

I am sure many of you are in the same boat; that is, your hobby is expanding into a "kind of" business and you have to start making decisions on whether or not the enterprise is worth the expenditure of money and time. Is your part time job becoming a full-time challenge? Is it taking over all of your "away-from-work" time?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts on this and how you cope with the workload.

Thanks,
John

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For me John, I try really hard to keep things as a hobby. But there are times when my hobby gets a little over whelming for me.
There are times I wish I had the money to open up a shop. Because I know if I did I could get a lot more work than I have now.
But then my hobby would go out the door. Then I would have overhead to worry about.

The way my health is too plays a big factor in it all.
So, because of my health and my wife's health, I don't see me doing anything more than what I do now.
Plus I take care of my 90+ Mom.
If I were younger and in good health, I would open me up a shop in a blink of an eye. But now I am looking at changing some things, so that when the wife and I both retire,I want nothing to hold us down, so we can try and enjoy (I hope in a big way) to do some traveling, and getting to see our 11 grand kids and to see some friends I have not see in a long time, and maybe see some I have never met in person.
EB

[dnic]

Let me set the stage, I have a full time real job, 40 hrs a week, I also have a part time job, 10hrs a week, and I volunteer as the sound guy at a local Christain coffee house on Saturday nights when something's scheduled. Which lately (heavy sigh) has been a little lean. When I started building/repairing guitars it was strictly a hobby with the expectation that at some point, maybe retirement, it could supplement my income. I get busy in spurts and I make enough yo support my own guitar parts and tools habit and I think soon it will also help with the household needs. Don't think it will make all the money I need to survive.

Having said all that if I could trade my 40 hr job for guitar tech work and make a living I'd do it in a second.

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Dane -- Good point. If I could just quit buying guitars maybe I would be making some money!

John