Any business has to adapt to the market. I see carbon fiber as a niche... my gut feeling is it will be a growing niche as more people get to see/hear/play these instruments. A really small CF is a niche within a niche... the Alpaca is just unusual enough in its looks that (from my perspective) a buyer is going to have to have a particular use for it. Not sure if there are enough backpacking guitar players who want carbon fiber to make that niche within a niche within a niche a viable business. If there are enough buyers and they can scale the business to grow or shrink and still be profitable, they will be back. But, they may have figured out there simply isn't enough market.
I don't have any inside knowledge on this. Didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, either. But, we did have some successful businesses in our workin' days.
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