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Continuing Education/Career Advice

Hi everyone, I was hoping to get some advice on training opportunities. My background and situation (briefly), I’m a self-taught guitar tech and electric luthier with 3 years experience (after 20yrs office work). I have a job in a high volume guitar shop doing setups and quality checks on outgoing/sold guitars. The store does repair work but I have not been included in this, despite many requests. I do not believe this is due to skill le…

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Joe, It sounds like you know A LOT more than I did when I started my business. I started it as a side hustle and worked another job during the day, growing skills on nights and weekends and taking on…
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Looking for a source for quilted maple tops

I'm having a hard time finding a nice quilted maple top for an electric build. I've gone as far as to search about 7 pages deep on Google so I'm really going through it right now! I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me towards something cool.

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Oh and there's also this, you've probably come across them, I find their prices to be prices for sure. https://nwtimber.com/musical-lumber/maple/quilted/
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pickup wiring?

I've built some acoustic guitars and I want to get into some electric builds. On that note, I have a highly regarded player around here asking if I could wire an existing solid body to his liking. He is providing two 500K pots, two P90 pickups and a 3 position switch. He wants two volume controls, no tone control. He's quite an accomplished player and I don't know enough to question him. I got a Seymour Duncan diagram from their si…

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Thanks Ethan