It was only a matter of time. A commercially produced 3 string CBG type kit.
http://loogguitars.com/kickstarter/index.html
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1340845022/the-loog-guitar?ref=...
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Gotta love it tho. Great for the kids.
-WY
Gotta love it tho. Great for the kids.
-WY
Here is an excerpt from an exchange I had with Rafaal a while back while he was canvassing for donations for his start-up funding:
Just discovered your project and wanted to share some thoughts after reading your presentation.
First off, great concept, nearly spot-on.
My first concern is that the price point is a little high, kits at $215 will have a hard time in a market where you can buy something like a Squire strat copy, complete starter kit with practice amp for less.
Next, one suggestion for tweaking the presentation, it is biased towards the kids. Adults love this stuff. A little more push there would help you in the long run. The picture of the dad and daughter should have had him playing a long necked Loog instead of the conventional acoustic 6 string. Maybe the conventional 6 string should have been sitting nearby in the back ground.
My next suggestion would be an expansion of the concept.
1: Optional necks without the toyish fretmarkers.
2: Optional 4 string necks/hardware.
3: optional piezo pickups and a line of inexpensive practice amps, possibly re-branded practice amps. Take a look at the "Honeytone" battery powered practice amp, its cheap and sounds great! http://cgi.ebay.com/Danelectro-Honeytone-N10-Mini-Guitar-Amp-Aqua-/...
4: Optional metal string upgrades, Optional open tuning upgrades, etc.
There is a large underground movement building home made 3 and 4 string instruments, Potential sales of kits and parts by adults who want to play traditional, folk, blues and old time music is pretty large. I think there is a market for selling individual parts as well as kits here. Nearly all these groups have classified/for sale sections where you could list these products. You should also consider banner ads on some of these sites.
But again, your projected price points may hinder your overall success!
A few examples:
www.cigarboxnation.com
http://handmademusic.ning.com/
http://homegrownmusiccollective.com/
http://www.tedcrocker.com/cigarbox.html
I really appreciate the intentions toward getting this to kids, as I love to see young people involved in music. But the success of this business model may depend on a much broader market base.
As an example, if you were in production now, and offered a 24" three stringed model (without the fret markers and pick guard please) that was srung with bronze acoustic strings and tuned GDg, at for example $149.99, I would buy one on the spot. If the neck build and fretting were decent I would buy two more.
Oh and I nearly forgot, you need to have a left handed player option too.
The options are pretty vast, with just the offering of various nut/string packages you could offer models in with the short neck to be tuned as ukeleles, 4 stringed mandolins, long necks as dulcimers, tenor guitars, four stringed banjos, etc. etc.
Agreed. Way to $$. But they are cute.
-WY
Vinter said:
too bad they are planning on charging 215$ , you can get a cheap electric kit for what 125$ with an amp? cool business model but not for the price
Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates said:
Gotta love it tho. Great for the kids.
-WY
So this is a shop set-up on donation money? Smart idea, a bit shameless in asking a high price when you where basicly just given the money but none the less a good idea to get your shop up and running.
25 grand buy's a lot of timesaving tools and cheap but usable wood.
I get the advesrtising bit but c'mon, you can buy 6 string kits for half of what this guy is asking from "reputable" compagny's like Boston while this guy is just starting out and (no offence) could just aswell be selling crap.
It may be a promising concept but there are compagny's out there making simular instruments in a pretty comercial setting like McNally's strumstick or Elderly Instruments selling cbg's at the same price or cheaper for a finished product instead of a kit that need's finishing.
They are cute and probibly sound good too i'll give you that, but for a compagny that's set-up by goodwill, no loan to pay back to a bank or such and sells imported stuff that's probibly being mass produced in factories the price is just way to high for me.
It also seems strange to me that a young compagny askes so much money for a product they are just starting out with, most of the times a starting compagny sell's their product cheaper to get their name out there and later raise it.
I do like the goodwill concept though, great way to start a buisniss!! Me thinks my next project will be a collection box hehehe
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