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Seven C Music is a full service guitar specialty shop located in St Petersburg Florida. The owners are David and Joel Hosler. Both have extensive backgrounds in repair and service along with other staff members. Seven C is currently looking to add a qualified repair technician to their group. The opening requires working experience of five years or more diagnosing and repairing both acoustic and electric guitars. This is not a back r…

To all the amateur looths who also have a day job, how do you make time to actually do your looth work? My evening job has me away for 11 hours a day, 7 days a week. Add in sleep time and meals, I only have about 4 hours a day for everything else. What do you do to get motivated to be in the workshop?

Good Day all. I am just about to undergo a small project with a local programmer to make a simple client booking and job sheet creator. The idea is not to compete with shop flow etc but to be a simple solution for booking, assessment, job sheet and tagging guitars. I'm sure some of you like me book with a calender write out an assessment sheet and a bit of sticky tape on a case. Then an invoice to boot. The goal is that once a booking i…

https://northampton.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NCC/details/Luthier-Instructor_JR3840 The staff and faculty of Northampton Community College share a single goal: to help students transform their lives through education. It's a goal that reaps rewards thousands of times over the course of a career. Employees at Northampton receive competitive compensation and an array of benefits while working on campuses located in a region with a very h…

I'm struggling to set up my business's social media presence. I have a Meta Business account, Facebook is working, but when I try to link my Instagram account from Meta Business Suite I get a message saying my Instagram account has restrictions because I didn't follow "advertising standards or other policies or term." I got this message immediately after setting up the account before posting anything or having any opportunity to violate…

Listening in on the great zoom call today, a question was asked by the Stewmac representative, if the shop in the hot seat was an authorized repair center for any major brands. How many of you shop owners are authorized repair centers for the major brands? Gibson, Fender, Martin, Taylor and so on…. Do you have any wisdom you can share or contacts to get signed up to do work for the major brands? Also do you find doing warranty repairs i…

Hey! I am in the process of switching to full time repair from a home shop and in preparation have picked up a few product lines. So far I have D'Addario, LR Baggs, K and K and Fishman. I worked at a retail store and did all the ordering so it was easy to get these set up. Does anyone on here have opinions or suggestions for lines that they do well with. I do a lot more acoustic than electric work but was considering seymour duncan as a l…