Farhad Soheili has worn many hats in his guitar career to date, at various points in his life he’s been a session musician, and a guitar repairer and restorer in both California and New York – earning a reputation as one of the Big Apple’s most trustworthy restorers. But in 2016 he found his true calling, and established his own guitar company,FSC吉他和乐器在2016年。
作为一个小团队，FSC将其乐器基于熟悉的形状和身体样式，并使用手工选择的Tonewoods和定制的拾音器来更新和将其吉他重新引入现代玩家。Soheili透露：“我的许多建筑物都与我认为最好的老式吉他直接进行了仔细的逆向设计。”
With plans to increase production to over 300 guitars a year and the introduction of their first pedal, the KB-1 Oberdrive+, Soheili discusses how it all began.
您是如何首先对吉他感兴趣的？
“When I was a teenager, I would spend a lot of time practicing guitar, the guitar I had was a terrible nylon string acoustic at the time. Super high action! I didn’t know what that meant at that age, I was just obsessed with playing and getting as good as possible because I wanted to be like the guitarists in my favourite bands. In my late teens, around 1997, I began dabbling with my own guitar setups and basic repair mods, but it wasn’t until my late 20s after being a session guitarist for a bit that I started repairing guitars professionally, then eventually building.”
You worked as a luthier before running a respected repair shop in NYC. How did that experience help you develop the instruments you build now?
“是的，这种经历有很大帮助。我认为在建造之前拥有一些吉他维修知识和经验是非常宝贵的。对我来说，这是自然的进步。当我们开始建造复合半径指板，6105品格等时，它还帮助我将最常见的客户要求纳入FSC吉他中。在为其他人建造吉他之前，这也有助于拥有多年的FretWork经验。”
尽管建造了电吉他，但您还是选择了音调木材，例如声学琴弦。这是为什么？
“我也想建造具有声学谐振的电吉他。这确实有助于最终产品脱颖而出。最近，我真的很喜欢脾气暴躁的音木。脾气暴躁的松木和枫木脖子。它们是惊人的，听起来真的像是一个悠久的播放器，可以开箱即用。”
您所有的拾音器也内部受伤。那是一个有意识的决定吗？
“That’s how we started out, currently we wind some of them in house and some of them are done by other pickup makers to our specs. Gemini Pickups does a number of them. I’m a big fan of Rob’s work.”
为什么要建立有限的年度运行模型？
“我认为FSC吉他不会最终进入拥有大量输出的大型商店。对我来说，那真是一件很奇怪的事情。我们是一家非常小的精品吉他公司，质量是年度产出的主要目标。但是，计划每年都在增长，这不可避免地意味着更多的工具。我认为最多我们将来每年只能做300至400吉他。对我来说，这将是很多，对于其他吉他品牌来说，这是一个毁灭性的数字。”
您是否会考虑将来引入“货架上的货架”模型？
“目前，我们确实有几种标准型号，但是它们可以通过颈部轮廓，拾音器，木材和饰面来完全定制。”
When did you realise you had a viable business?
“I already had my foot in the door from doing repair work for so long, so it was probably faster for me to build and sell guitars with the small reputation I had built in New York City as a luthier. That really helped to already have a customer base starting out.”
Did you have any external investment starting out?
“我们没有。但是，在第一年之后，我们确实进行了一笔小的投资来帮助发展。”
作为制造商，您最骄傲的时刻是什么？
“It’s when someone receives their guitar and is ecstatic about it. That doesn’t get old.”
FSC乐器的下一步是什么？
以有机的速度继续发展公司。不断提出新产品和凉爽的设计。在2021年，我们推出了我在隔离停机时间设计的高线系列吉他，并发布了新产品，即我们的第一个效果踏板：KB-1 Oberdrive+，我们非常兴奋。”
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