How do you become a guitar/bass tech?

[lewiswhitebass]

Would love to become a guitar/bass tech. I would be interested to hear how those of you doing it already got into it?

Lewis

[dudewheresmybass]

networking. 😉

[lownote]

Do some tech stuff. I started off changing my strings.  Ended up by converting a fretless bass that sold to Bryan Adams. 

[gjones]

I have a friend who became the guitar tech for the Soweto Gospel choir. 

She'd been a sound engineer, around Edinburgh and Glasgow, for a few years and out of the blue got a call from a friend, who was having to drop out of the choir's UK tour and asked her if she fancied taking over the job.

Of course she had no idea about being a guitar tech but said yes anyway. 

I had to teach her how to tune a guitar.

She managed to get through the UK tour and eventually she ended up as their tour manager, on a 6 week tour from Hamburg to Istanbul.

 

[Bassalarky]

After touring for several years, keeping all the band gear running, I studied for a HND in Music Technology (electronics), got a job in a busy recording studio and started saying 'yes' when musos/customers/friends/hangers-on asked if I could fix their guitar/bass/keyboard/amp/microphone........Now I just do it for local people who are going to be nice to me cos I've grown into a grumpy old man in my semi-retirement 😁

[lewiswhitebass]

Thanks for all your responses! Definitely stuff to consider. I suppose it's like anything in life, if you do it a lot you will get good at it.