Hey Surf - I'm getting a "website not secure" message when logging onto the forum now. I had a similar issue with my photography website and had to upgrade to HTTPS security protocol.
For me the takeaway was that the guitar market has become quite fragmented, making it extremely difficult to get accurate sales figures. As Juha mentions, if 50,000 small luthiers make 10 guitars per year each, that would be a large addition to the volume manufactured by the larger firms. The parall...