Q And when you say in a batch, it's like you make one part of the guitar at a time, and then you would put them all together at the same time?
A Yeah, we would bend sides for 10 guitars, brace tops for 10 guitars, then move all 10 to the next step. And the idea being, While I have my bench set up to do this work, I want to do a bunch of it because it's going to be more efficient, and I met an older gentleman that made guitars one at a time. He did, he would start a guitar, and then a couple days later he'd start another guitar. He had this little miniature one-man assembly line to where every couple days a guitar would come off the line, another guitar would get started, and five or 10 guitars would all move a step forward, and I'd say, well, ok, You want to make the bridge for the guitar? How many bridges do you make? He goes, well, if I need one, I make one. I go, you don't make 10? He goes, I don't need 10, I need one. Yeah, but Augie, you know, when I make a bridge, I set up and I make all of those. I get almost nine of them for free. And he just looked at me and he said, Bob, what would you rather have? 10 half-done guitars or one done guitar? And that changed my life.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, we would bend sides for 10 guitars, brace tops for 10 guitars”