[jacob_rezi]

Similarly, my dad was a luthier for 15 years before passing away to cancer in 2022. In the 5th grade, I wanted to learn guitar, so being the engineer he was, he built one. But needed machines first, and wood, and the garage.

Being an engineer instead of a business-minded operator prevented his work from becoming too well known but the instrument and what he accomplished was special.

I know own the shop, guitars, and everything after his passing - a couple years ago I made a reddit thread asking for help - it blew up and is an interesting read - https://www.reddit.com/r/guitars/comments/1f07f1s/my_dad_lef...

I like to take pictures of products and build websites, unfortunately we just ran out of time.

https://sgg2.webflow.io/

[jacquesm]

Is the business still operating?

[jacob_rezi]

No, there are no employees left but I still maintain the workspace until we find a buyer for the operation

[jacquesm]

I am going to make really sure that my heirs are going to be left with a simple financial arrangement, thank you for the implicit reminder to do so. Your dad was awesome, I looked at that video 3 times and there is so much love poured into that workshop that it makes me wish I knew someone worthy of carrying that torch for another generation. I can identify just about every station and see how smart and cost efficient he had it all set up. Have you thought about reaching out to the Luthier guild?

https://luth.org/

[vjulian]

Way cool! Also, La Crosse! I have family there. I’ll stop by one of these days.