Made in USA - California Issue

[The Dali]

This may be a dated issue - if so, please remove.

I saw this note from the president of Schecter to custom shop (USA) customers. Thought it was interesting... and also telling that Fender proudly places "Made in the USA" on its guitars even though their factory is also in California (although their headquarters are in Arizona). Thoughts?

http://www.schecterguitars.com/media-vault/news/item/557-letter-from-the-president

 

[VinceT]

Re: Made in USA - California Issue

This may be a dated issue - if so, please remove.

I saw this note from the president of Schecter to customer shop (USA) customers. Thought it was interesting... and also telling that Fender proudly places "Made in the USA" on its guitars even though their factory is also in California (although their headquarters are in Arizona). Thoughts?

http://www.schecterguitars.com/media-vault/news/item/557-letter-from-the-president

Yeah, that's a pretty to-the-point letter, isn't it?


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[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Made in USA - California Issue

Leatherman Tools no longer say made in USA for similar reasons. They source one of the parts from the world's premier manufacturer of said part.

 

[Demanic]

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Ah the wonders that grow in the land of fruits and nuts.

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[Mincer]

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I do think that what they ended up putting on the headstock is pretty good. These days you have to be careful, as a competitor or even a disgruntled customer can challenge 'Made in the USA'. While I love things made in the USA, I don't know if it is as important to the generation below me- just like it isn't as important to me as the generation before me. I still love to support the home team, but I don't know how long that kind of thinking will last in a global economy like we have.

 

[dave74]

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This is like the whole "what constitutes organic" thing in the food industry. lol

 

[PFDarkside]

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This story is so ridiculous. What if some of the grease in the machine that mined the ore that was smelted into the steel of the trem block was pulled from a well overseas?

 

[Demanic]

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This story is so ridiculous. What if some of the grease in the machine that mined the ore that was smelted into the steel of the trem block was pulled from a well overseas?

Sounds like you'd make a good lawyer.

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[dotsdad]

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Is that why Duncans say "made in America" instead of "made in USA"?

 

[AlexR]

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Its an issue for just about everyone making complex goods. How do you know the precise path that every part takes. And with organic materials in there like guitar wood - why does the tree have to have been grown in the USA given all the shaping is done to it locally??

Get the lawyers involved and things go downhill fast.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Sounds like you'd make a good lawyer.

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Quite the opposite.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Is that why Duncans say "made in America" instead of "made in USA"?

Some people interpret "America" as meaning North/Central/South America. No idea if that's what they're getting at.

 

[Demanic]

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Quite the opposite.

Why, too strong a moral center?

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[The Dali]

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Reminds me of the old joke about Japan a while back... using a city called "Usa" to manufacture goods and then stamp them with "Made in USA" for US export. (this is false, of course).

 

[PFDarkside]

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Why, too strong a moral center?

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I'd like to think so. Lol

That and technical minutiae makes my head explode.

 

[Mincer]

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Is that why Duncans say "made in America" instead of "made in USA"?

Actually, I am not sure why. I am sure someone from their legal dept might know, though.

 

[KeeperOS]

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I am unsure whether that is the case but yeah, the entirety of the world outside the US of A knows that America is a continent, not a country, just like Europe, Asia, Africa (sometimes combined into Eurasia or even Afro-Eurasia), Oceania/Oceanica (i.e. Australia plus proximate islands) and Antarctica. Even is you split America into North and South America, just the north subcontinent alone includes an astonishing 23 countries, only one of which is the USA.


It's funny because I distinctly remember a forum member describing right here his experience on another country where he was talking to a local and telling him that he was American and the local simply not understanding what "an American" meant, in the end the forum bro pointing to the US and the foreigner circling the entirety of the continent for a "light-bulb" moment on the forum bro's side...

BTW, back on topic, I knew there was a reason I always liked Michael Ciravolo, he completely ridiculed the level of their legal system and how open to abuse it is without actually opening himself up to it. Much respect

 

[80's_Metal]

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California isn't really part of the USA anyhow...

 

[Silence Kid]

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California isn't really part of the USA anyhow...

California exerts more economic influence than France and is the world's sixth largest economy, so there's already a lot of truth to that. If CA secedes, it'll be interesting to see what trade laws develop so the remaining US states can still have something to eat.