ESP LTD '87 Series (What's Not To Like?)

[allbutromeo]

I've got the '87 Eclipse Custom (the Tele shaped one) it's a great guitar. Sounds good, plays good,, and fit and finish is excellent.

 

[Benjy_26]

Meanwhile people are snatching iPhones and Air Jordans from those Chicomms and don't care about politics. When did buying guitars get embroiled in geopolitical war? Come on...lol.

Wanting to buy things that my neighbors built is geopolitics?

 

[Benjy_26]

I consider myself fairly idealistic, and pretty devout in my principles, but I know I've handed plenty of scummy ass people money for guitars. Sold brake pads to a guy with a swastika tattooed on his hand today, too. With that, it's pretty tough to get upset that my Ibanez Paul Gilbert guitar is Chinese and cost about a grand, especially because it's so freaking sweet.

How much of that money is getting into the hands of the people that built said guitar?

 

[Sirion]

I consider myself fairly idealistic, and pretty devout in my principles, but I know I've handed plenty of scummy ass people money for guitars. Sold brake pads to a guy with a swastika tattooed on his hand today, too. With that, it's pretty tough to get upset that my Ibanez Paul Gilbert guitar is Chinese and cost about a grand, especially because it's so freaking sweet.

This reminds me of a controversy surrounding the early performances of Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, where the Salvation Army was shown to be able to do their work because they accepted donations from war profiteers and spirit makers. In an ensuing controversy the playwrigth was accused of slandering the Army, which people believed would never have accepted such money, until one of their representatives confirmed that they would have taken money from Satan if they could give it to God.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

How much of that money is getting into the hands of the people that built said guitar?

Not nearly enough.