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Now we are settled in to our larger workshop I'm going to be trialing an idea I've had in mind for some time: Pickup winding days.
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lots of build your own guitar courses ... but I believe this will be the first ever course for pickups!
Two students at a time can come and spend a day with me in the Oil City workshop, and under full instruction, make a their own set of pickups ... all materials included.
Tea and coffee will be available as required and (we hope) a pub lunch will be included in the price ... at a wonderful hostelry mere yards from our premises ... perhaps come and share a beer with me and our team after the days efforts (beers not included lol)
Learn how to hand scatter wind, or make your own, super authentic PAF replica. You could make a fire breathing metal pickup or a early fifties style single coil ... all with high quality/authentic materials.
The cost of this will be piloted at £195.00 per person ... that's about the value of a good set of humbuckers ... so you could see it as a day of fun and instruction with a free set of pickups at the end!
Our workshop is on Leyton High Road, five minutes walk from Leyton tube on the central line. This puts us close to excellent and reasonably priced hotels one stop back up the line at Stratford City.
We hope to start in late July with weekend dates ... if you are interested please PM me.
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Make your own design p'ups under Ash's watchful eyes, all the parts & tools, and a day out in East London all for <£200? What's not to like.
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Would you have to have some sort of boundaries on what people could design and build in the day, or would it really be a case of "if you can design it, we can build it"?
Presume people would have to have a reasonably firm idea of what they wanted to build beforehand, if only so you can confirm that its viable, and ensure that you've got the necessary bits & pieces in stock?
Does £195 give you enough margin? A day of your time, plus all the parts, plus something towards overheads ...
TTony said: There would have to be some limits ... stuff that required lots of CAD design and laser cutting would be out ... there would simply not be enough time.
I think we will get potential students to fill in a form with a pretty broad selection of options and thus give us the chance to order in any parts we might not have in stock. We would also try to pair up students (we could only take two at a time) so that what they were making used different resources and they don't find themselves in each other's way.
We have two winding stations for example, but only one laser cutter ... so we have to be canny with our use of resources.
£195.00 per person is based on two students for a full working day, and wouldn't include super exotic options like 'Time Machine covers' on PAFs ... as those are close to £80.00 a pair as it stands! Students could of course bring their own with things like that if they so wished.
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There’s no reason why you shouldn’t revise the price after a trial period.
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will see what dates I have free when back
I'm looking at the last couple of weekends in July to get the ball rolling, and depending how much work we have there may be a few weekday slots available in addition ... though this will be at fairly short notice.
Hopefully I should be able to have signup forms available in the next couple of weeks.
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