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Guys, calm down. Change what you can change, ignore or accept what you can't change. The wisest (of us) know which is which.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
http://www.casimiguitars.com/
They're not cheap - but they're not half a million quid!
https://www.thaliacapos.com/collections/capos/products/the-tree-mahogany-inlay-brushed-black
or Con Air... wasn't sure which way to go with this, both equally hilarious.. brb - getting coat.
I like the line...
I do love the word "can" in "everyone who can hear it". It's the market segmentation thing again. "You and I CAN hear it because we possess golden ears, and taste, and those over there who can't hear it don't possess those things. They are lesser beings, and can be ignored. Now, if you could just confirm your PIN for me please..."
The whole guitar business is built around this nonsense. The sad part is that we keep buying it! We keep falling for the same old hackneyed phrases and marketing screed and actually shell out for it.
There are so many threads recently moaning about this sort of thing (yes I know I am doing most of the moaning). 70's guitars being reissued or sold for stupidly vintage money, cheap pedals being labelled up as expensive ones and sold with the same-old marketing weasel words (why couldn't the buyers hear that the cheap pedal and the expensive pedal sounded the same - they were the same!), and now we have a guitar built with wood allegedly from some fabled tree being sold with the above bilge.
I am at the point now where I really want to see some companies fail because people have stopped falling for this kind of nonsense. It would make me happy to see a company fail because they are trying to flog a bunch of 70's guitars and people think "hmm they were rubbish then so why do I need to pay silly money for one?" or "this £400 pedal sounds exactly like this £30 pedal" or "I don't really know what tree the wood came from on this guitar, and can't tell the difference from this one at 1/00th of the price, or even 1/1000th of the price, so I'll not bother".
Am I too cynical? I just find it more and more difficult to believe anything about guitars, amps and effects these days. The only part of the guitar business I trust are chords, scales and music. All of the physical things leave me wondering about the profit motivation rather than the musical qualities, and threads like this don't help. Please stop exposing this kind of exploitative profiteering, it's not doing my blood pressure any good!
One should be encouraged, the other not. See, easy!
Which isn't to say it's not snake oil, but having seen enough pictures of 'The Tree' on the AGF (AcousticGuitarForum), the sets of wood used from 'The Tree' do have an incredibly recognizable visual grain pattern.
In the acoustic side of things, exclusivity is a big thing but there's been more than 200 instruments made with the Tree and there are around another 200 sets out there, it doesn't seem that exclusive to my perception!
Well said, sir!
I never did get all the bollocks about highly figured woods on guitars - sure, make a guitar that looks nice, put a pretty top on it, I don't have an issue with that, but there has to be a balance between function and form IMHO.
That's one of the reasons I really don't buy into PRS, the guitars are really well built but the obsession with ten-tops, figured necks and ornate inlays and other unnecessary bling just puts me off.
Also, and I don't know if there's any science to this, but in my broken logic, plain wood, as opposed to highly figured wood, should sound better.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.