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Pickup makers annoy me!
 9/10/2002 12:35 PM |
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SK | Pickup makers annoy me! Why all the secrecy? This is the only field I've ever been involved in where EVERYTHING seems to be secret. Anything from designs (which makes sense to some degree) to suppliers. I've got aquaintances/ contacts to the top of a few of the big companies and they still won't share info. They won't even sell pieces parts to another maker even though the markup would be huge for them. I understand they may well have had to have thier own mold made at a cost of many thousands, but now it costs them pennies per part and I'm willing to pay dollars/. I know it's not a big market, but come-on...It's not like I'll be destroying Duncans market share.. Honestly, I think it's largely due to how easy it is to do a reasonable job of making pickups. That, or they don't want you to know they import all thier stuff for cheap. I got lucky, when I first started out I hooked up with Wolfe, and thru him Jason and a few others. Many of us share information and pool resources and it makes things better/easier/cheaper for us. But there's stuff we still can't get/afford and I know there's a supplier somewhere... |
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| Ralph I too found it almost impossible to... -- 9/10/2002 1:57 PM Dr Strangelove SK wrote:[QUOTE]Why all the secrecy... -- 9/10/2002 3:09 PM WolfeMacleod It's exactly this reason why I agre... -- 9/10/2002 7:47 PM cam atkinson I started winding pickups about 2 y... -- 9/11/2002 8:06 PM |