The SAGA builds.

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I went to the SAGA build today. WOW! what a bunch of cool builds. I remember back when I did my fist one. LP It was such a blast to build. I miss them SAGA builds. At the time I got mine it was all that was on eBay. Now there are so many making kit guitars. The prices have gone up with them as well.

 I sold my SAG some years later for $650.00. I wish now that I had never sold it. I did try and find it. But no luck. I hope it's in a good home. OH well...

 Going to the SAGA pages sure brought back some cool memories and reminded me of were I started.

 LOL! I was reminded of some of things I was told on the Forum when I first started..." be aware! that once you go down this path there is no turning back!" WoW has that healed true! In hind sight I don't know what or where I would be today without Guitar Attack and the cool people that I have met and became friends with.

 I do love making guitars. Even when my health is not so good. I still think on my next build and would like to build a few more. Mostly guitar that I want to build for me. I even enjoy the kit and parts build I have done. I have had a few ask me of late of building them a custom guitar. But when it comes down to the money they seem to shy away. I no longer will do a custom build without getting half down. Non refundable. That way I don't carve up some expensive woods for nothing. That also shows me they are commented to the build. I have also gotten that way on repairs and setting up guitars. I no long take them in without some kind of a down payment. For one I can't always afford it. Them two last (black) guitars I did I wound up only making a few dollars on them. I way under sold myself on them. But, the customer was happy and he has yet another for me to work on.

 Well, Thanks again Guitar Attack and all of the people. You will all be number one to me. Also thanks for putting up with me all these years.

 I hope to be around for years to come.

 Eddie (Eagle Blues) Oh and now SANTA!

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I never have built a kit guitar or any other kit for that matter. But Guitar Attack has been a great place to share and receive info for many years. And for the most part all of the interactions have been very friendly. That is due to the admin of course and perhaps just because most of us are very accepting of new folks. I've mentioned it before but one of the first forums I got involved in just disappeared me and I never could figure out why. All my threads were just gone. I guess I could have tried to contact the owner/ admin of the site but I was mad and hurt and just kinda said screw it and moved on.

On the topic of getting money up front. I don't get money up front. I just figure if I don't get payed I have another guitar. I'm sure I couldn't get away with keeping someones 1946 Martin but I've never had an issue with payment. Knock Brazilian rosewood.

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The Saga Sagas on GuitarAttack.com is here: www.guitarattack.com/saga/sagasagas.htm

There are a lot of great ideas on there, and I learned a great deal from just reading and posting them.

The Saga Build YouTube video my nephew and I made is still getting hits and closing in on 75,000 views. I told him if we got 100 views and more good than bad reviews it would be success. Well, we beat that!

I got a lot of views on the demo of the Saga I built during that video. It is funny what catches on!

I still recommend kits for beginners or those who are curious about guitar building. They are a pretty cheap entry into the craft.

Thanks,
John

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Dec 21, 2021 10:59:12 GMT -6 GuitarAttack Forum said:

The Saga Sagas on GuitarAttack.com is here: www.guitarattack.com/saga/sagasagas.htm

There are a lot of great ideas on there, and I learned a great deal from just reading and posting them.

The Saga Build YouTube video my nephew and I made is still getting hits and closing in on 75,000 views. I told him if we got 100 views and more good than bad reviews it would be success. Well, we beat that!

I got a lot of views on the demo of the Saga I built during that video. It is funny what catches on!

I still recommend kits for beginners or those who are curious about guitar building. They are a pretty cheap entry into the craft.

Thanks,
John

The first lit I did was a SAGA LP. It's in the SAGA pages. The cream one. I first built it when I was in FL. At the time I think I used the pickup that had come with it. But when we left FL to go to AZ I took the guitar all apart and rebuilt in AZ. I used better pickups and changed the pots and tuners. It came out super nice the second time around.

 I really didn't want to sell it. I liked that guitar a lot! But, this guy came by and offered me $600.00 for it so I took it. Now even though the kit was not that much to buy I still wound up having over $400.00 into it. So I didn't make much on it. But, I was glad I got that much for it. No to many sell kit guitars at a fair price once built.

 But that guitar tough me a lot on how guitars are built. By the time I rebuilt the guitar I was already building whole guitars from scratch.

  So, when it went back together this time the guitar played as good as any guitar out there.

 I do wish I could have it back. Hard telling what ever happened to it. I found it in a music store and tried to get it back. I even told the guy I was the one that put that guitar together. It still had everything on it that I had done to it. Set up and all were the same. The problem in me getting back that day was I had no cash on me. So I told him I would came back later on in the week and if he still had it I would like to buy it. Well, you know how this went. When I went back the guitar was gone and sold the next day after I was there. He had a tag on it for $450. He told me that the guy that bought it paid him that price.

 So I lost what happened to it after that. I even put up an ad on CL but no one ever got hold of me. But that guitar helped me to get to know John better. He helped me out with some questions I had at that time.

 My first guitar that I had redone was a Tele. And it's in the Tech part of Guitar Attack. I also wound up selling that guitar to one of my inlaws. He still has it and it's one of his favorite guitars that he owns. He has a few. LOL!

 Thinking back at that time, It was and is one of the best times I had in making guitars. It was like a year or so after John had posted about some of my builds on The SAGA and Guitar Attack that I joined up with the form. There is were I got to meet some awesome people that took me to a whole new level in guitar making. I learned a lot and most of the people were there to help and not put me down.

 Yep some of the forums back then were not to great. But even today there are not to many out there that are any different today than back then. Full of big egos and they are right and you are wrong kind of thing.

 So, I have always liked Guitar Attack because they were not that way. I will never forget the Guitar Attack build that so many got involved with. Even if they did not send the parts they were still involved. I never in all my dream thought that a bunch of people would come together and do something like that!

 And they did that at one of my lowest times in my life. In some ways you could say they saved me. They built me up, by showing me that even though I had never met any of them in person, that there were and are great people out there that really cared. I will never forget that! In fact it still plays a big part in my life today. I can never put into words that will say everything I have felt and how it had changed me. That Guitar will go to the grave with me. Along with my LP custom. HA!

 But yes John, that is what I tell people wanting to get into guitars. I tell them to start with a kit, and to check out the SAGA pages on Guitar Attack. It to me is the best place to get started and to find out all kinds of info on how to do or get your guitar to a playing state that no were else can be found.

 But so many now lean on YT for their info. To bad to, they are missing out on meeting on line people that respond back to their question. You don't always get that on YT or FB. Or if you do, it's pretty much someone trying to knock you down, or acting like they know so much more than anyone else.

 Be at peace, and go hug someone! LOL!

EB