1980s
In the 1980s Zemaitis launched a "student model" guitar that would allow people to upgrade his guitar when it was affordable but this proved too popular and time consuming. He quickly realized that this model threatened to overshadow all other guitar production so it was discontinued. The 1980s were also a time when Zemaitis started to take more orders for guitars than was physically possible to produce and he had to start turning down work.
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