Starting a Guitar Business with Highline Guitars
Ғылым және технология
Welcome to our new interview series: Design. Carve. Sell. Where we feature the stories of how people are starting and growing their business with the aid of CNC technology.
To kick us off, we're talking with Chris Mock of Highline Guitars. Chris has sold a whole bunch of guitars by combining CNC technology with old world handcrafted techniques to create one of a kind of one-off guitars, you haven't seen anywhere else.
We get into a bunch of things like how CNC's can help you reduce your overall labor costs, how do you price to where do you get your first sell, and how do you grow a business in a niche that is already pretty crowded?
LINKS
Highline Guitars - / highlineguitars
Easel - www.inventables.com/technolog...
X-Carve - www.inventables.com/technolog...
X-Carve Pro - www.inventables.com/technolog...
TIMELINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:52 - Interest in Guitars
00:05:15 - Building First Guitar
00:06:44 - Starting Highline Guitar
00:08:15 - How to Price Guitars
00:12:11 - Creating Revenue Streams
00:15:55 - The First X-Carve
00:20:52 - Adjusting designs to the machine
00:22:11 - X-Carve to X-Carve Pro
00:23:48 - Purchasing an X-Carve Pro
00:28:46 - How long to build a guitar
00:32:23 - Making Jigs
00:34:30 - Advice for Starting a Business
00:37:50 - Finding Customers
00:40:38 - Where to find Chris
Пікірлер: 11
My dream is to start a guitar business and having one of these machines would make that possible.. i hope to own one some day
Interviewer’s skills are 10/10
@inventables
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@highlandguitars is doing some awesome work... and I admire what he has to say about the XCP of which I am a new owner of myself. I may have to take a stab at building a guitar myself some day...
@inventables
Жыл бұрын
do it!
Great interview, I am the owner of a new cnc, the software learning curve for new guitar makers is big, with a capital B, but worth the time investment. Very impressed with your videos, always informative. Thank you.
@inventables
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, any specific areas that are a sticking point for you? We are always working on new content training content!
The steepest learning cure is 3d.. The next step up on machines is 40,000 ish to get you 1500 ips
If Leo had axis to a cnc he would have used it.. Standing in front of a pin router like a caveman gets old fast.. Work smarter not harder
@inventables
2 жыл бұрын
Good point!
The CNC does everything except resawing