They can afford the best, hoping the name drop of their high end axe collection will give them cred. Excellent and expensive guitars are wasted on them. Not an actual ton (around 1520 lbs short), I'll grant you, but certainly a figurative one by most people's standards (wealthy collectors and Blues Lawyers excluded, of course - my harem pales in comparison to those folks' collections).Warning, book post!īlues Lawyers ha! Hadn’t heard that term….Yes, we all know that guy. Well, I have owned 60 or so guitars and bassists since 1985 (and I don't even know how many more I have just played - definitely several hundred more) - if you figure that they average 8lbs, that's +/- 480 lbs. It doesn't get any less rock and roll than that. No chance in hell i'd want to be seen playing a Pretty Rich Sissy guitar, or some such thing. vintage is cool but the prices they command are offensive, and newer high end stuff? Ugh.
Maybe that only applies to me, because even if i were a millionaire i doubt i'd spend more than $1000 on a guitar. To me, the key is just to play a given specimen before you fork over the money for it. I've also got only good things to say about my Korean Danelectro, although those are certainly not for everybody. No problems with it in four years, sounds amazing, fit and finish are excellent. I found it at the local music store and after playing it realized that there was no way i could leave without it. On the other hand, I also have a Chinese Hofner Verythin that is- no kidding- my favorite guitar that i've ever played. It never did intonate properly, sheds parts everytime you play it, and now the fretboard is trying to separate from the neck. I ordered one of the Chinese Epiphone Dot Studios around five years ago that has been nothing but trouble. Totally agree that quality is a problem in a lot of these cheaper made guitars. Might need to change out the electronics, but other than that a cookie-cutter guitar is a cookie-cutter guitar. That's why in most cases now I'd as soon play a Korean Squier as a Fender, other than a custom shop. Hand craftsmanship DOES make a better, more personalized instrument. There's nobody to add that little human touch that makes one go "Ah! THIS is my guitar!" It's all cookie cutter - like a Model T compared to a Dusenberg (car). The template is derived either from a laser scan of a sample neck or an idealized set of mathematical co-ordinates derived from a computer program like AutoCAD - most likely the latter.Īll the necks come out the same - except there's no human intervention to notice abnormalities/features of the wood. The person was most like a specialized computer technician. I agree machines are not artists, but likely the PERSON that programmed the drawing or set up the machine was. With inlays this is increasingly obvious. With jigs and templates, each successive one can be more off than the one before it.
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