Custom Guitar: Efficient Communication For Your Needs
Custom Guitar: Make Your Requirement Clear is Key
To custom acoustic guitar, the first step is to find a reliable partner like us to realize your requirement.
But what after confirmation of the factory who will be the contractor to construct guitars for you? Someone thinks that the factory can handle everything for them. Indeed, but the factory can only fulfill all tasks when the targets are clear. This means, the communication between the clients and the contractor is the key to figure out the real needs and specific requirement.
Not all of the clients pay attention to the communication of their needs. And this is the main reason that the customization seems be a wonderful experience at the beginning and become a disaster at the end.
Since the communication is the key for a successful cooperation of guitar customization, we think to indicate how to carry out an efficient communication for accurate solution of the needs is necessary.
Through this article, we are trying to indicate some tips for a successful communication from a factory point of view, thus, you may understand what a factory needs to know for a better service. Besides, hopefully, can help you to have a clear clue to 100% transfer your requirement to the factory.
Ways & Language of Conversation
Nowadays, distance is not a problem for people from corners of this planet to talk with each other. There are ways of communication.
- Fax: This was a popular way of information transfer. But it is rarely seen nowadays since the
development of communication technology and internet.
- Phone Call: This is still an efficient way of communication. Besides, people still love to hear
the other’s voice.
- Email: This is a traditional way of business communication way. Till now, email has been used
for more than two decades. People can write the word of necessary information in the
mail to send to the other. If you have any files to be sent, you can attach them in
your mail which is convenient and no extra cost.
- Online Chatting: Since the development of internet and the technology of tools, APPs, etc.,
there are various online chatting tools like whatsapp, lines, skype and
messenger of facebook, etc. All of them are convenient for online
communication.
Another thing is language. English is the most frequently used foreign language in China. As time goes by, there are people who speak Spanish and other language, too. But most of them are not in international business filed. Wired, but don’t know why. However, with translation tools, language is not the biggest challenges now.
What We Need to Discuss for Customization of Guitar?
When receive an inquiry about the customization of guitar, we frequently reply with one question: what is your specific requirement. For a factory, this means the information in the inquiry is not sufficient to confirm a proper solution. But the clients may don’t have a clear clue, too.
Thus, we list some essential specifications that a factory may need to collect for an accurate solution to customize the guitar.
Types of Guitars
As we have experienced, the first problem is to confirm the types of guitars.
Normally, clients clarify that he or she wants to order to custom acoustic guitars. But that is not enough for a right solution. Because there are specifications like size, shape, type of material, etc. to confirm the solution.
Don’t mention that there are requirements for acoustic-electric type of guitars.
However, let’s figure out if you want to customize acoustic, classical or electrical guitar in general firstly.
Size of Custom Guitar
The size of acoustic guitars refers to total length, scale length, etc. As our experience, the most requirement of the size is among the standard range like 38inch, 41inch, etc. When we are informed about the that, we can have a general idea about the shape of body, size of neck, etc.
However, it is better to give as more specific as you can for accurate confirmation.
Shaping of Acoustic Guitar Customization
Shape of acoustic guitar mainly refers to the shape of body. You can visit Acoustic Guitar Body to know main types of guitar body.
Most of time, the clients select the shapes according to the standard designs. They may change round to shape to cutaway, but it is still a standard design. But we have also received some special designation of the bodies. And to meet that, we have to modify the existed machines like bending to enable us to bend the side for the body.
Therefore, it is necessary to figure out the designation of body in advance. And during this communication, drawings will be greatly helpful.
Configuration of Accessories for Customization
The accessories here refer to the parts like rosette, bridge, pins, tuning pegs, etc.
Rosette and bridge are required for customization mostly. Because the two parts can easily contribute to the unique appearance. Therefore, we frequently discuss about the designation of the two parts. And for customization, the production of rosette and bridge is quite flexible for us.
Above are the main aspects that we need to figure out before acoustic guitar customization. We know that there still other details need to be communicated before any further movement. Please feel free to CONTACT US for what you are looking for.