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Wisdom, wow and lol not available simultaneously, so gone with 'wow'....
- Source product as cheaply as possible and
- Sell it for as much as it can.
That's it.You can buy a Chinese guitar because it's cheap and it benefits you.
You can buy a Chinese guitar because it's cheap, it benefits you and you feel that it also benefits the people of China.
You can refuse to buy a Chinese guitar because, while it might benefit you, it also benefits the economy of China and you feel that does not benefit the economy of the rest of the world.
We all make our choices.
Joking aside - I was horrified when I saw the price of some Chinese built guitars. But is been out the game a while and the progress made had (true) bypassed me.
The country of origin doesn't bother me so much now. But every guitar purchase I make is a luxury item that should I fall on hard times would be sold if necessary.
Consequently I buy used 90% of the time which offers better value and resale prices.
That doesn't mean you have to like it or accept it as the only way, though- they could still pay their workers better.
LOL
Absolutely. I'm well aware of that.
And I can buy what I like.
Exactly (and probably a bunch of other options you didn't mention there, too).
(Using "Quite" like that cracks me up, that's what the LOL was for, not that I thought your point was silly )
Would I buy a Chinese guitar over aboth £600? No .. at that point I could afford to buy one from another country with an appalling human rights record ... the USA!
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When I picked up the Fireman, it was just dead. Now I've had quite a few Chinese guitars too and some of them have been punching way way way above their weight in terms of quality, this fireman was not the case. It played like one of those Lemon Epiphone's you can get which really disappointed me.
If the guitar was handmade in China or even just in small numbers by a skilled luthier then I would have no qualms about paying that kind of price but it was clearly an off the conveyer belt jobbie
Maybe it's like some people have said, because people have grown to expect flaws in many production line guitars the QC was lax.
Fenders (for example) are "conveyor belt" guitars and a lot of them sound great. They were designed from the outset to be mass produced. You get good ones and bad ones by either production method.
You might also be surprised by the amount of hand work in some of the cheapest, most poorly-made guitars - that's *why* they're poor, often...
Hand making something is no guarantee of quality, and often quite the opposite. Where this idea that 'hand made is best' has come from in our largely near-perfect, machine-made world I don't know! If everything was hand made we'd be back in the 18th century.
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