What if I want to learn lutherie as a hobby, but don have a desire to make a living in guitar making and repair?
Our admissions process includes essay questions that help us determine you desire to become a professional in the field of lutherie. As an accredited vocational-technical school, we have standards that require us to accept only those students who are interested in guitar making and repair as a vocation. An alternative would be for the student to audit the course. They would attend all classes and build the project guitars, but they would not receive a “Luthier Certificate” upon graduation. The costs for auditing the course are the same. In the future, R-V may offer non-accredited courses that are designed for students who just want to build a guitar and are not interested in pursuing job opportunities.
