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Personally, I think your better small shop and custom builders need to be more concerned about customers being able to follow through on their orders. If you order something that is unique or odd in some way, that can make it a more difficult instrument to sell. I’d think builders would want to make sure that the buyers aren’t just being speculative, and make sure they have enough skin in the game to follow through when the build is complete. Especially instruments that may have been ordered a year or two ago, and now the customers may have lost jobs, or investments, or even gotten sick. The bigger shops can deal with selling custom instruments throughout their dealer channel, once they rout off the custom initials, but one of the appeals of working with small builders is the process of defining your guitar, and few people will pay top dollar for someone elses dream -