Graham Parker Luthier Has A New Website!
May 25th, 2009 § 4 Comments
After googling for a guitar repairist I was glad to see that there was one who lived locally to me, a guy called Graham Parker. I checked out his site and frankly I was appalled. All Flash horribleness: you couldn’t sense where you were; you couldn’t copy and paste anything (a hobby of mine); and search engines were not picking it up. I rang up, made an appointment and went round.
Graham’s workshop is an Aladdin’s cave for any guitarist. You name it it’s there (or if not only 3 working days away). I left a guitar in that had mysteriously cracked in my own home as well as me having busted one of the tuning pegs. Graham was able to tell a lot from the guitar by giving it a quick inspection and within about a week he had restored the guitar.
In that meantime I gave his site a closer inspection and saw that there was a wealth of information in there. I was quite saddened to be honest because here was a very knowledgeable gentleman, an expert in his field of which there are few others, and he’s being ignored. All because of a crap website.
When I picked up my guitar I shared with him the disappointment I felt from his website. His feedback was that he liked the look of it. I explained that it’s a bit like marrying a beautiful woman and then keeping her inside all the time…
Now after two months Graham’s new site is up and running. He’s very excited and I’m really glad. He has put a lot of effort into it under my guidance. Not only has his new site got a blog but he is now on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr as well as MySpace. They all interconnect. Go to Graham’s site and have a look around. I think it has a bit of the Aladdin’s cave feel that his workshop has.
Great write up Cormac! Gray will love this! His new site looks fab. Gray is once again waltzing out proudly with that beautiful woman on his arm……!!!
Haha!Glad you got my metaphor and very glad you’re all happy with it. A lot of work but I am sure it will be worth it. It won’t blow everyone away overnight but it will be a grower over time. Can’t wait to see photos of his new commissions when they get ordered and built
Hi Graham,nice to chat with you today and many thanks for passing on my phone number to Richard.Ilookforward to seeing apicture of the mandola. 0136383878
Hi David, Thanks for your comment. Graham’s site is actually here:
http://grahamparkerluthier.com/
Feel free to follow the link and make a comment on Graham’s site. I am sure he’ll appreciate it.