One bench, one set of hands
The shop trained through a five-year apprenticeship under a violin maker before turning mostly to guitars and other fretted instruments, though a bowed instrument still comes across the bench most months.
Wood is kept in the shop for years before it is used, stacked to acclimate to the room it will be built in - a rushed piece of spruce shows up later as a crack, and there is no repair that undoes a build that was hurried.
Most weeks bring more repairs than the bench can take in the same week, so a first look is usually booked a few days out rather than same day.
