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

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

>

Hi Jyrki,



any news about our favorite-though-never-played guitars?

How is Matti doing?





Best regards



Andreas