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To keep growing the company at an organic pace. That doesn’t get old.” What’s next for FSC Instruments? “It’s when someone receives their guitar and is ecstatic about it. However, we did take a small investment after the first year to help grow.” That really helped to already have a customer base starting out.” Did you have any external investment starting out? “I already had my foot in the door from doing repair work for so long, so it was probably faster for me to build and sell guitars with the small reputation I had built in New York City as a luthier.
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When did you realise you had a viable business? “We do have several standard models at this time, but they can be fully customized in terms of neck profiles, pickups, wood, and finishes.” That would be a lot to me and a devastatingly tiny number to other guitar brands.” Would you consider introducing an ‘off the shelf’ model in the future? I think at most we would only do 300 to 400 guitars per year in the future. However, plans are to keep growing each year and that inevitably means more instruments. We are a very small boutique guitar company and quality being the main objective limits the yearly output. That would be a really strange thing for me. “I don’t think FSC Guitars will ever end up in big box stores with tons of output. Why do you build limited, yearly run models? It also helped to have years of fretwork experience before building guitars for other people.” It also helped me incorporate the most common customer requests into FSC Guitars when we started building like compound radius fretboards, 6105 frets, etc.
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I think it’s invaluable to have some guitar repair knowledge and experience before getting into building. How did that experience help you develop the instruments you build now? In my late teens, around 1997, I began dabbling with my own guitar setups and basic repair mods, but it wasn’t until my late 20s after being a session guitarist for a bit that I started repairing guitars professionally, then eventually building.” You worked as a luthier before running a respected repair shop in NYC. Super high action! I didn’t know what that meant at that age, I was just obsessed with playing and getting as good as possible because I wanted to be like the guitarists in my favourite bands. “When I was a teenager, I would spend a lot of time practicing guitar, the guitar I had was a terrible nylon string acoustic at the time. How did you first become interested in guitars?