how much does it cost to have a guitar refinished?

or better yet, you're a businessman.. here's an idea for a niche market:

how about inventing and selling a line of fabric guitar covers that can be changed to allow performers to match their instruments to their outfits?

I notice somebody has created the "car bra" which is a fabric cover for the front of autos to keep the bugs from messing up the finish.

You could call your product the "Guitar Bra" or the "gui-tarp" or the "LeoTar" or something else that contains the word "Norton" ;-)

Fabrics can be anything, the possibilities are endless. Find a local seamstress, give her a template of your guitar, and see what she comes up with. If you like it, maybe you can work out a business plan.

From a distance, all the audience sees is color, they don't know or care if it is paint, stain, plexiglass, polyurethane, formica or fabric. AS you've said in the past, "It's show business"... color is a part of the visual show

It might take off. You've expressed a valid consumer need that nobody else addresses. It's too expensive to buy guitars in the color of every outfit. A velcro slipcover for guitars... hmmm It's just trendy enough, different enough and useful enough to pique consumers' interest. Musicians are a creative group, and creative types tend to accept new ideas more readily than other consumer demographics

You could be your own poster boy by using your product onstage. Every performance would be an advertisement. You already have a website in place to take orders.

High school kids playing in garage bands could buy a Norton LeoTar and paint ther band's name on it without ruining the guitar for resale.

It would also serve as a protective covering, which would appeal to people who like to keep their instrument's finish looking like new.

You could probably brainstorm a hundred reasons why everyone who owns a guitar should also own your product. The potential market (ie. "everyone in the world who owns a guitar") is a very large market indeed.

Totally untapped.

yet.


;-)






Last edited by Pat Marr; 11/23/10 11:35 AM.