A thank you to my American friends

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Five beautiful head stocks, all made in the U.S.A. Thanks from a foreigner...you guys know how to build a guitar (and make pickups, too!)
 

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Now I feel bad. Thanks to my Japanese friends as well. Old Yamaha SBG 200 MIJ.
 

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I want to thank Germany too for my shadow s100 superstrat.
 
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I want to thank my main friend for creating all of the wonderful wood for my many guitars.
 
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I was looking at guitar shops in Japan, with Google Street View you can virtually "walk around" inside some of them, and it was interesting to see that even their guitar shops had the fancy and expensive "American" made guitars section, with the favorable lighting and presentation, and then a cheaper section with the drab fluorescent lighting, which included the guitars made in their own country. I suppose it makes sense, but it was a little sad to see their own product regarded in that way.
 
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DreX said:
I was looking at guitar shops in Japan, with Google Street View you can virtually "walk around" inside some of them, and it was interesting to see that even their guitar shops had the fancy and expensive "American" made guitars section, with the favorable lighting and presentation, and then a cheaper section with the drab fluorescent lighting, which included the guitars made in their own country. I suppose it makes sense, but it was a little sad to see their own product regarded in that way.
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That is so odd. I'm surprised anyone who lived in Japan would even bother with an imported guitar. They make better versions of the imported stuff, anyway. Must be a brand prestige thing.
 
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Hmmm, makes me wonder what my country of origin breakup is now.

I was heavily in MIJ Les Pauls but I sold some. Was completely Gibson-free but not anymore.

Two German Warwicks.
 
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Not many Aus guitars apart from custom made stuff.....Maton is of course the main homegrown 'brand' here
 
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AlexR said:
Not many Aus guitars apart from custom made stuff.....Maton is of course the main homegrown 'brand' here
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You're an Aussie eh?

Soooooo...if I were to say: "Aussie Aussie Aussie!"
You would be genetically obligated to say...?
 
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In an age where America never really MAKES anything anymore and most stuff is outsourced, I am glad that we still put out really nice guitars... for the most part... for now...
 
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Is it really that MIA are so good, or is it that foreign made guitars were simply sub par for a long time?
 
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Is it really that MIA are so good, or is it that foreign made guitars were simply sub par for a long time?
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I think it's a combination of that, and the fact that companies use their "non-1st world" factories to manufacture to specific price points. I bet if you spec'd an R8 to the epiphone factory and allowed them to source the expensive wood and parts, and dedicate the labour time, they could make it. But I'm also guessing that in the end, the savings doesn't justify the move overseas. So the higher end stuff can be (reasonably) affordably made by the companies in the US or Japan or Europe.
 
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