callous_frigid_chill
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Re: First Act ads in recent Guitar Worlds
I'll have to disagree with you there.
Mephis said:
I'll have to disagree with you there.
First Act ads in recent Guitar Worlds
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Re: First Act ads in recent Guitar Worlds
It's not people buying cheap POS guitars that gets me, its a fact that a lot of parents and beginners expect it to compare to a more expensive instrument... like a Squier. :laugh2:
I can say this because I used to work at Guitar Center... you'd be amazed at the amount of parents who came in with - get this - those decorator "guitars" from Tijuana that they bought for one dollar and then they'd buy a $5 pack of strings and ask me to restring it... then they wondered why the force of the string pull would rip the crude bridge off. I mean you bought the fooking thing for a DOLLAR. In MEXICO. What the hell are you trying to pull here? Use some common sense, for chrissakes. I mean if all the hardware is made of plastic and the strings are made of fishing wire... get a goddamn clue.
Mephis said:
It's not people buying cheap POS guitars that gets me, its a fact that a lot of parents and beginners expect it to compare to a more expensive instrument... like a Squier. :laugh2:
I can say this because I used to work at Guitar Center... you'd be amazed at the amount of parents who came in with - get this - those decorator "guitars" from Tijuana that they bought for one dollar and then they'd buy a $5 pack of strings and ask me to restring it... then they wondered why the force of the string pull would rip the crude bridge off. I mean you bought the fooking thing for a DOLLAR. In MEXICO. What the hell are you trying to pull here? Use some common sense, for chrissakes. I mean if all the hardware is made of plastic and the strings are made of fishing wire... get a goddamn clue.
dogcityrocker
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Re: First Act ads in recent Guitar Worlds
Ive read some reviews of the higher end First Acts, and they were good reviews. They reviewd a "tele" model and I thing a LP model. Anyway, the $600 First Acts use top grade tonewood (ash, alder mahogony) and are hand finished and fit (more than Fender and Gibson can say).
Granted, the Walmart variety are crap, but if I see one of those tele copies there putting out, Im going to test drive one. Dont knock em till youve tried em. Im sure many people made fun of telecasters when they first came out.
Im not a great player, but you give a great player a Fisrt Act or a Silvertone and they will make it sing. Hell, Jimmy Page used Silvertones ON STAGE and in studio
Ive read some reviews of the higher end First Acts, and they were good reviews. They reviewd a "tele" model and I thing a LP model. Anyway, the $600 First Acts use top grade tonewood (ash, alder mahogony) and are hand finished and fit (more than Fender and Gibson can say).
Granted, the Walmart variety are crap, but if I see one of those tele copies there putting out, Im going to test drive one. Dont knock em till youve tried em. Im sure many people made fun of telecasters when they first came out.
Im not a great player, but you give a great player a Fisrt Act or a Silvertone and they will make it sing. Hell, Jimmy Page used Silvertones ON STAGE and in studio
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Re: First Act ads in recent Guitar Worlds
FWIW Jimmy Page plays/played a Danelectro- the parent company of Silvertone at the time, and even then he only used it for 1 medley of 2 songs and 1 other song. Figure until the mid-60's even bargain brand, price point guitars made in the US were made of good materials, and there's a lot of them still around because they were made well. Find 60's and early 70's Japanese made guitars with lots of wear on them- Those aren't around because they weren't made well and weren't made of good materials.
There's a reason $100 guitars are $100. Whether it's garbage materials and/or crappy manufacturing...dogcityrocker said:
FWIW Jimmy Page plays/played a Danelectro- the parent company of Silvertone at the time, and even then he only used it for 1 medley of 2 songs and 1 other song. Figure until the mid-60's even bargain brand, price point guitars made in the US were made of good materials, and there's a lot of them still around because they were made well. Find 60's and early 70's Japanese made guitars with lots of wear on them- Those aren't around because they weren't made well and weren't made of good materials.
