Here is the official full-length video announcing the 3D-PT line of guitar body routing templates.
This is an admittedly niche project for a small number of cottage industry guitar manufacturers and hobbyists. In fact, I have to believe that once most guitar builders have any amount of success building and selling guitars, their next step is investing in a CNC that routs out the shape and pickups for them.
I’m somewhat encouraged by the fact that 40 minutes after I shared the first short form video about these templates (at about 2:10am local time) I had an order come from the Neterhlands. A few hours later I had another order from an individual in Belgium.
Unfortunately, I’m still not at the break even point for the cost of Shapr3D, the modeling program I used to make these templates. The annual cost is $199 and I have sold about $99 worth of templates. It would be nice to at least cover the cost of the application and if I can get compensated for my time, too, that would be great.
I’m still a little hesitant to spend any kind of money on advertising right now, but maybe that will happen. Right now word of mouth is paramount, so all the likes, shares, and comments you can leave on the video will help me out with the algorithm immensely.
In the video I talk about being able to place pre-orders for physical copies of the templates. As of this moment the pre-orders aren’t live, but they will be before the weekend is over.
Here’s the video:
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I’ve done a little backdating and importing of old posts, but this is technically the first original blog post using the headless WordPress CMS and the React frontend on my website. I’m pretty pleased with how painless the process was and how the results look. Stay tuned for a video on that process soon.
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