Epic "showmanship". And from this comes two questions:
Which of our fettlers, tinkerers, hobbyists, and professionals might contrive such a rig on a box?
What might be the equivalent modification of a melodeon to display the prevalent themes in various tunes from the diverse traditions in the (broadly stated) "Melnet Canon". For example, "Speed the Plough", "Miss Drummond of Perth", "The Truth About The Rubber Boots", or "The Wind That Blows the Barley"?
Slight drift... I've designed and fabricated tooling to make those simple strap brackets. The tooling is plastic and only works on aluminum wire. I've invested in nice hand toggle presses.
Pair of Mackie SRM450 powered speakers. These are in full working order but no longer needed now that I've retired my ceilidh band. They are the original version bought new about 20 years ago. They have some scuffs and scratches from use, but are in full working order. I’m looking for offers around £350 for the pair to include Mackie branded bags, a pair of stands mains leads and a couple of signal leads. There is other stuff as well including a Mackie analog mixing desk, mics, stands, cables etc.
Heavy stuff so would need to be collected. Possible delivery to Belper.
How interesting. One day I ought to actually put up a proper shop (I use WooCommerce but just the edge of it really) to see how it works. I've got a spare hosting slot so I could run a second site (I'd call it 'accordionspares'). And on that subject, I think CGM did a lot of stuff for accordions as well as diatonics. Given the shortage it'd be worth doing concertina stuff too….and mandolins etc etc… And those brackets….Carini don't do them anymore! i was musing on how to make them…what kind of wire you'd need etc
I agree with your reasons for not taking it on Rog. years ago I tried selling parts but as you guessed it takes time away from doing tuning and repair. It would make a nice part time business for someone. You could start with a small number of lines and be guide by enquiries about adding new lines.
One strange thing I discovered was that I got lots of moderately large orders for the most simple strap brackets that is just a simple cleat with a screw hole at each end. Apparently they had a use as strap guides in some caravan related purpose.
When I wished him well and asked about the wax sticks he said all his stock was sold ..not sure if that meant the sticks or all the stock. I invented a story in my head where he'd sold the stock to one of the many Scottish shops/repairers, but who knows? He didn't reply when I asked him to explain how he made the sticks. I might have got onto the subject of his stock but i didn't get that far. It would be possible and relatively straightforward to set up a proper online shop using free Wordpress tools…But you'd really need to have a handle on the probable turnover, levels of stock etc and some advice on what stock to avoid. Finger in the air estimate…I reckoned I'd need to invest maybe £3k to £5k in stock and went as far as downloading the CGM website, so I can reference the inventory. But it's a lot of potential work and I have plenty to do with repairs and I asked myself if I wanted to spend my time stock picking and posting packages (ans…no)…plus I calculate that for every 10 customers, one of them would be a pain and pretty soon I might get fed up with it. If bottom drops out of repairing I'd consider it…but it shows no signs of abating. In the mean time I'll carry on with Carini…though they can be blimmin slow sometimes.
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