As we've been researching instruments, one thing has been abundantly clear. Brands these days are meaning less and less, and being made in America is relative. In the past years we've been finding guitars by the likes of Eastwood, and Xavier (www.guitarfetish.com) that have been comparable to Epiphone, and even some of the overpriced Gibson guitars we've been seeing. Last night, I was blown away at a local big-box guitar seller that has a Gibson ES-335 with a non-gloss finish that was in the $2,200 (sale price) range. Now Gibson was selling a very similar guitar to this called the ES-333 that was almost half the price. Why the inflation?
The more we look at the "high-end" guitars, the lest reason we see to pay top dollar for the prestige of owning them. The off-brand builders have really honed in on producing instruments that are as quality as the hardware that's on them... and that's interchangeable anyway. Bottom line, we just don;t see the need for paying into these large companies that charge more for instruments that are really not that much better and are just as stamped out, as the "budget" models.
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