How's it going?
I'm looking into becoming a luthier and am wondering whats the best way of going about it. Does anyone know of any schools around the UK (or even Ireland??) that they can recommend? I'm a bass player so ultimately I'd like to be a bass luthier but in the meantime I want to learn the trade as much as possible.
I've seen the Newark School of Violin Making on the web and it seems pretty reputable (thats Newark in England by the way - not New Jersey). Does anyone have any more info on this. Or the courses hard to get into? I did woodwork in for 7 years in school so I'm not completely without skill and I looooooooove making and repairing things and I loooooooove playing music so it seems to make sense to me. Just don't know why it took me so long to think to draw the two together
I'm from Cork in Ireland so I'm expecting to have to travel but I suppose the closer to home the better.
Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.
