A Year in the Life of a China Guitar Sceptic
3,601 views · Published 20 March 2014 · 19:28 · Indexed 20 October 2026
Channel: CGS · 2014 · People & Blogs
Wow! I can hardly believe it! It's a year today since I set up the China Guitar Sceptic You Tube Channel and shortly after introduce the worlds worst sofa too. It was only ever intended to prove that the Chinese copies were nothing but a rip off and I had entirely expected to get a box with a toy guitar or just air in it and lose my hard earned in the process. However that was not to be the case and what transpired from there is a story now well known to all of my ever loyal and supportive subscribers. Maggie the PR Less arrived in April and I uploaded the unboxing video on the 12th. Within a matter of weeks I had made contacts across the globe with like minded individuals, many of whom I now count among my trusted friends. I also had several subscribers and more subscriptions came fast and thick from there on. Within a month I was close to 100 subs! So much kindness and support for my initial video and from the Chinese guitar community, along with being pretty impressed with Maggie as a project guitar, lead me to make another purchase and document the process on this Channel. By the time my second guitar, Tiger, turned up I was hooked. Not only on doing up the poorly appointed and set up guitars from China but also on the incredible community that is You Tube. My subscribers are easily the kindest and most supportive on here and they have continued to inspire and drive me to help as much as I can to develop communication and support within the Chinese guitar community. Much of my time, effort and money has been spent on highlighting the problems and issues with Chinese fakes and also finding inexpensive and innovative ways to overcome them for ordinary folks like me who have a little knowledge but are certainly not luthiers. In this endeavour I have been incredibly fortunate to have made friends with Brett [Vambostrasser] and a number of equally knowledgeable but somewhat less frequent contributors to my ongoing learning curve. I have tried to share my knowledge and great ideas that they have shared with me and hope that I have given lots of you help and ideas for working on your own guitars. Within a few months I had taken the step of putting up the CGS website and built a forum for like minded project guitar enthusiasts to meet and share ideas as well as report fakes being sold. The forum already has 226 members at the time of writing and there have been well over 5000 posts. Continuing to discourage the purchase of fakes I have also set up a separate channel Milton guitars hoping eventually to provide a really great value alternative to buying counterfeits. As a result of all of the above the year has literally flown by and I find almost impossible to believe that I have been doing this for that time already. However, while I do not like some of the narrow minded people who seem to troll every You Tube Channel [not just mine], I still love making videos and look forward to reading all your comments. It may have sounded like I am calling it a day but I promise that is not the case. However as I say in the video I am not independently wealthy and I can't afford to keep on buying guitars. Not to mention that I am fast running out of space to store them! So for a while I am going to concentrate more on making tutorials and review videos which I hope will help young and newbie guitar players to learn how to set up and customise their guitars. Coming soon I will finish the upgrade works to Greeny Moore. I will also try to upload a video playing a demo of each of the guitars I have bought on the anniversary of their original unboxing. In terms of funding this as an ongoing project I may take on commissions for intro videos for other digital content creators. So if you want to see more guitars, perhaps you could help me to develop some custom for them. I'm also open to ideas for other potential funding streams for the CGS channel. However I am not really at all keen on monetising my videos as it always bugs me having to close or wait for ads on other channels and I don't want to do that to you. All other ideas are greatly welcomed and will be appreciated. So there it is. A year in the life of a China Guitar Sceptic. I hope you have and continue to enjoy watching me on the worlds ugliest sofa! :o) Thanks for watching and wishing you... LOTS OF GOOD ROCKIN' !!! THE USUAL LINKS: http://cgs.x10.mx http://www.youtube.com/user/Chinaguitarsceptic [email protected] NEW CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYu4CZehUmnzqOq38c1A3Dw http://www.miltonguitars.co.uk ===================================== MILTON GUITARS CHANNEL http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYu4CZehUmnzqOq38c1A3Dw
