From: rust_preacher <rust_preacher@...>
Subject: [flyingfinns] Re: FGW
To: flyingfinns@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 3:19 AM

Thanks for the Post, Andreas.

I will have to go see Matti one of these days, to post some news
here. There are others who have had trouble getting Matti to deliver
guitars. Matti is very busy always, as the Finnish musicians keep him
occupied both with orders for new instruments and repairs and service
for their old instruments.

I know many large companies in the guitar business have tried to get
Matti to expand and to licence his designs for factory-made guitar
manufacturing. He has not wanted to do this and he has made sure the
guitars are all his personal work. Occasionally he has trainees and
other help from schools arund the area, but I guess this kind of help
needs more supervision than what is compensated by their ability to
do actual work. So this means the situation is a bit difficult.

In addition, they will demolish the building where his workshop is,
leaving him (and many established and start-up bands, some of which
have rehearsal space in the same building) high and dry with regard
to where to continue his work.

I will get bac to the matter in a couple of weeks, right now I am
quite busy with my job, and will be taveling quite a lot in the next
3 weeks.

Jyrki

--- In flyingfinns@ yahoogroups. com, "schoelland" <schoelland@ ...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> for more than two years I've been wondering about FGW guitars
because
> there are no updates on the website and I never received an answer
to
> the two e-mails I wrote.
> So I finally found your yahoo-group.
> Too bad to hear that Matti is having health problems. I really hope
he
> gets better.
> I fell in love with his guitars whem I first saw them online about
> seven years ago but I could never afford one back then. So I e-
mailed
> him last year about the prices of a Sound of Blues and shipping
costs
> to Germany. And about all the color and pickup and hardware
options. I
> would buy a Sound of Blues next year.
> Hopefully Matti gets well. And once he's healthy again, maybe I can
> think about a guitar from Finnland again.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>