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Problem is we associate that concept with the £1-200 kit. Imagine it in a £4-500 kit instead.
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I reckon they’ll do ok with these off the back of the brand name anyway, even if they’re comparatively more than some brands they’re not really super expensive either
So for me, I'd prefer to pay for some good woods like the above and then source everything else, because that's what I had to do anyway.
Having said that, I could easily do that by sourcing the body and neck from different places too, so I'm not really helping at all here. Ahem.
if they added the option to get a full guitars worth of stuff it would be a kit. Look at most amp kits, they are customisable, you can chose to exclude stuff you don’t want or upgrade certain elements if needed in the knowledge it will all go together without too much modification. A guitar version of that is an exciting prospect and well within crimsons capabilities.
i guess the prevelance of cheap guitar kits with shit parts and no custom options skews the perception of what we expect from a guitar kit.
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https://www.kieselguitars.com/catalog/kits/gk1
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I don’t do complete kits any more, the photo below is one of my high-end kits I use to do. It’s very doubtful if there is a market for this type of kit any more, just too expensive. This kit would sell between £750 to £850 depending on some of the components. The neck and body are obviously hand built by me. The hardware is about the best you can buy. It’s doubtful if you will want to upgrade any of the major components, although obviously some people will prefer a different tremolo or different pickups, maybe don't like locking tuners. But what you have in this kit is everything you need to make a top-quality guitar, and I believe could be as good as any custom shop Strat. This is where the problem is, everybody's got their own ideas of what the best pickups, tremolo and tuners. If I was to market this kit, absolutely guaranteed anyone who was interested would want something different in it. It will not be practical to carry so many different pieces of hardware.
Hold on I can hear people saying, you can go on eBay and get Fender for that sort of money, and you're right. But not everybody wants to buy ready-made guitar, there's nothing quite like building your own guitar, and that feeling when you strap on and plug it in for the first time, there just something very special about that moment.
I now wonder is the market big enough for all these different companies offering Fender type necks and bodies. It's always been a crowded marketplace with the cheap stuff coming from China and the Far East, plus American companies claiming “made in America” when we know it comes from China, I think it’s going get to stage very soon were Fender type guitar bodies and neck market will so saturated that it will become unviable and unprofitable. We've seen at least three companies in the last couple weeks, all more or less offering the same Fender type products. And it seems that a lot is coming off the same CNC machine. At least we know the guys are Crimson guitars actually make their bodies and necks, and know what they are doing, as opposed to some who are just buying in and selling on.
I'm so glad that the Fender type necks and bodies is a very small part of what I do, possibly less then 10%. Fortunately for me, the CNC guys in this country are sticking with the easy bodies and haven't got onto the Gibson stuff, although one of them has, but I don't consider him to be any threat to me as his prices are so much higher than mine. I think my market share will be pretty safe for the next year or so, after that, I won't care if they do start making Gibson stuff, because I'll be out of the retail market, and only making for other custom builders, I know I've been saying that the last two years or so, but this time it's going happen.
The kit only comes with one neck.
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Dont get me wrong I'm very grateful that you sell the necks & bodies for the prices you do and with the news that you'll be stopping soon that's definitely galvanised my thinking on getting that Jazzmaster body we've discussed recently built before it is too late !
A bit of pre-advertising for Black Friday. I'm going to have with any luck, time permitting some interesting telecaster coming up. Hopefully, three of them, a Jim Root, a "F" hole thin line with a flame maple cap on swamp ash body, plus a sort of copy of a Princes telecaster.
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Princess telecaster not-exact copy but quite close. Swamp Ash body with a Walnut strip running through the centre and a Flame Maple cap. It takes a standard Strat hard tail bridge. The neck is Flame Maple with a Flame Maple finger board with 22 frets, headstock is drilled for Kluson’s. 42.5mm wide at the nut, 21mm deep at the 1st fret and 22.5mm at the 12th. Body weight 4lb 7oz, Body is doubled bound with tortoiseshell binding.
£200 inc P&P
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