The beginnings of our new guitar section...

The painter has done almost half of the "old" part of the shop & will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00am (yep, that's right... 7:00am... in the morning... on a SUNDAY!).  I thought I was finished with these early starts actually but this week I have tradies coming in on Tuesday AND Wednesday at 7:00am so I guess there's stiull a few more to go.  Today we swapped some of our electric guitars over into the back of the old part of the shop that Justin painted on Thursday & wow... they look awesome on the "domino" black that Clare has selected for the wall & roof colour... very rock, very night-club, very cool as well... can't wait to get the new racks up & the new carpet in!

Basses to the left... basses to the right... basses EVERYWHERE!

We always knew we had a great range of bass gear but when we had to shift them all so the painters could start painting downstairs we realised just how many we had!  At the moment they're using every spare guitar stand in the shop & are stacked in every square inch of the new part of the shop while we're painting the old part... but don't worry, they'll have an awesome NEW home very soon!

The Day Wall Came Down: Part 3!

Walls, walls, walls... or more correctly... NO more walls!  The first wall to come down was the double brick wall between the new & old shops; next was the temporary wooden wall (to protect us while they removed the brick wall!) & last night, we took out the old store room wall & office... to reveal a HUGE new space... which will be our new electric guitar section!  Huge space... precede by a HUGE mess!!! But we had fun!  Sort of...

Our new Yamaha window graphics

I love photo-graphics on windows & I was keen to promote the fact that we do a lot of brass & woodwind business (even though it wasn't particularly obvious till now!).  In fact even when you came into the store before the renovations they were very well hidden!  Not any more...

Yamaha are the main brand we supply in saxes & trumpets etc & they had some awesome graphics available for us to use.  Naturally they were very happy & keen to "assist" us in announcing our new increased wind instrument emphasis by means of these very classy photo-graphics in 2 of our new windows. Nice... very nice!

Electricals & more electricals

Today our sparky Karl is back upgrading the power feed to our building (which meant we had no power for a few hours today!) and also installing the LED lights in our showcases... only 5 watts each & no heat or UV... bewdiful! The saxes & brass instruments will finally have a nice home where they'll feel loved! 

Tomorrow the painters start on the "old" part of the building & getting ready for that is proving quite a logistical challenge... (read nightmare!).  Fortunately they are being very cooperative & have agreed to help us out by doing it in 2 halves which means that we can squeeze all the stock into one side of the shop while they do the other...  half & vice versa.  Our first job was to put together another 6o guitar stands!

Our new sheet music rack...

Sometimes we feel like all this is taking forever... but something new IS happening every day so I guess we just have to be patient.  Today it was the unexpected arrival a new sheet music stand. Now we have somewhere to browse & somewhere to store our music... and not before time! Shane WILL be excited when he comes in tomorrow! The glass doors on the new wind & brass showcases in the background should be in early next week too.

The new acoustic room.... beautiful!

There is still a lovely long ottoman lounge to go in the Acoustic Room (as well as another "surprise" on one wall!) but even at this stage you can really start to "see" it now....  the guitars just look amazing on the green walls & more importantly, the sound is lovely in there - not too bright but clear & with a bit of a snap to the acoustics. The electrician also got the pendant lights in late last night so you can actually SEE the guitars in there when you try them now!  We love it!