To keep growing the company at an organic pace. That doesnвЂ™t get old.вЂќ WhatвЂ™s next for FSC Instruments? вЂњItвЂ™s when someone receives their guitar and is ecstatic about it. However, we did take a small investment after the first year to help grow.вЂќ That really helped to already have a customer base starting out.вЂќ Did you have any external investment starting out? вЂњI already had my foot in the door from doing repair work for so long, so it was probably faster for me to build and sell guitars with the small reputation I had built in New York City as a luthier. When did you realise you had a viable business? вЂњWe do have several standard models at this time, but they can be fully customized in terms of neck profiles, pickups, wood, and finishes.вЂќ That would be a lot to me and a devastatingly tiny number to other guitar brands.вЂќ Would you consider introducing an вЂoff the shelfвЂ™ model in the future? I think at most we would only do 300 to 400 guitars per year in the future. However, plans are to keep growing each year and that inevitably means more instruments. We are a very small boutique guitar company and quality being the main objective limits the yearly output. That would be a really strange thing for me. вЂњI donвЂ™t think FSC Guitars will ever end up in big box stores with tons of output. Why do you build limited, yearly run models? It also helped to have years of fretwork experience before building guitars for other people.вЂќ It also helped me incorporate the most common customer requests into FSC Guitars when we started building like compound radius fretboards, 6105 frets, etc. I think itвЂ™s invaluable to have some guitar repair knowledge and experience before getting into building. How did that experience help you develop the instruments you build now? In my late teens, around 1997, I began dabbling with my own guitar setups and basic repair mods, but it wasnвЂ™t until my late 20s after being a session guitarist for a bit that I started repairing guitars professionally, then eventually building.вЂќ You worked as a luthier before running a respected repair shop in NYC. Super high action! I didnвЂ™t know what that meant at that age, I was just obsessed with playing and getting as good as possible because I wanted to be like the guitarists in my favourite bands. вЂњWhen I was a teenager, I would spend a lot of time practicing guitar, the guitar I had was a terrible nylon string acoustic at the time. How did you first become interested in guitars?

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