Dear friends,
We are pleased to announce our plans to run a guitar-building course. This course is part time and is designed for anyone who has a passion for guitars, design, music, working with their hands and/or working with wood. It is not necessary to be an instrument-builder or to have any prior woodworking experience to take part. We have a maximum of five places available. If these are full before the end of the year, we will begin in mid February.
The course runs for a maximum of 18 months and covers the whole process of building your dream guitar from design to finish.
This includes:
Initial concept design and blue-printing
Mould making
Wood selection
The construction process
Luthiers’ secrets of intuiting wood and finding and releasing it’s acoustic potential
Finishing
Course Structure:
One four-hour class per week at our workshop in Cape Point. Evenings or weekends, depending on group needs.
Course fees:
An initial deposit of R2500 is required to secure your place on the course. This will cover all your workshop consumables and is non-refundable after seven working days.
@ R100 p/hour, monthly fees are R1,600 p/month.
The total fee for the course is R28000 excluding wood and materials.
Woods and materials can vary in cost from approximately R5,000 to R10,000. These are chosen by the participants.
Once all the deposits have been paid, we will call a meeting to discuss the selection of your woods and materials.
By the end of the course each participant will walk away with a world-class instrument valued at R50,000 or more. This instrument will be tailor-made to your unique requirements and design. It may be your greatest friend as a musician, or an amazing collectors investment piece, or both, depending on what you choose to do with it thereafter. For the next hundred years that guitar will mature like a good wine and will sound more beautiful with each passing year. Who knows, maybe five hundred may pass before it grows silent once again!
Matthias and Matthew will guide you through the process from design to completion with great care, experience, humour and attention to detail. All our students leave our courses having created a top quality instrument.
We can say with full confidence that this is an experience of a lifetime. If you are interested in having such an experience, give us a call or mail us right away.
We look forward to welcoming you on this journey with us, and hope to hear from you soon.
For more information, please visit www.casimiguitars.com or mail us at
matthias@casimi.com .
Yours sincerely
The Casimi Guitars team
Matthias Roux
matthias@casimi.com +2782 928 3525
Matthew Rice
matthew@casimi.com +2776 474 3119
