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Trent

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How does Music Man Guitars build these AWESOME guitars in California and still be able to sell them at the prices that they sell for?:D
The guitars are at the top of the shelf and are at a much better price point than any of the other top of the line guitars that are available.
Thoughts?
 
Trent

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Just trying to say that these guys are doing a great job of making guitars and keeping the cost down.
GREAT JOB!
 
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from the EBMM parking lot. The 'Cuda is pretty old, so there's some vintage fading of the Dargie green.....
 
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Trent said:
How does Music Man Guitars build these AWESOME guitars in California and still be able to sell them at the prices that they sell for?:D
The guitars are at the top of the shelf and are at a much better price point than any of the other top of the line guitars that are available.
Thoughts?
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Lotsasmokearoundhere.......
 
straycat113

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Well with all the praise dont complain if Sterling decides to raise the prices.

On a more serious note the greatest thing that ever happened for guitar platers were the corporate take overs of both Fender and Gibson by companies that were just looking to make money and could care less about the product they were putting out, and by the end of there run almost put both companies out of business.This allowed a lot of smaller companies the chance to show they could make guitars as good if not better than the once big two which in return offered us the players many more options as some companies earned big time respect for the guitars they were making. Just look from 1980 on what the biggest bands in the world were using for guitars, the once big two were just about nowhere to be seen in the world of rock and Fender could thank SRV for reviving the blues and starting a whole new movement and IMHO I think Gibson owes there lives to Slash.

EBMM wound up landing the hottest player on the planet and has continued to follow suit with having some of the greatest players in the world want to get on board and work with them and just about everyone of them has produced a killer ax. Now I heard this third hand as it was told to my friend Mike that owns the guitar store I hang out in as it was told to him by someone who knows John Petrucci so I cant claim it to be Gospel, but when JP went from his old company over to EB he said he was blown away by the way he was treated and how open they were to ideas and in just making him happy period.

In todays world there are so many guitar companies I cant even keep up with them as a new on springs up in every new issue of whatever magazine I am reading ,so the competition has to be fierce. Also when we take into account the state of the economy people are struggling just to put food on the table these days. I think everyone knows about Fenders big price hike last year which was a pretty bad time to pull one but without going into details that do not belong on this board there was a bunch of models that sold in the original range that went up to the new price adjustment and are now back to where the originally started as they have been on a never ending sale, or the way I read it they were not selling.

I also love the new phrase -Boutique Guitar which just means it is going to cost a small mortgage. You can take all those few individual makers and compare any BFR model to them and tell me where an extra 3 or 4 grand is anyway justified, because it is not and borders on the ridicules.Then you have the one that takes the ultimate prize -The Relic which I hate with a passion. I could understand someone wanting a neck that feels like it was broken in, but paying 5k up to 20K for a guitar that looks like it was tied to a bumper and dragged around the block is just ludicrous.Funny that when you see guys buy a used guitar the first question is about condition not how many dings or dents are in it. Last week on a certain forum in the custom shop room they were talking about a great Blues Players model that came out that was not his #1 and originally had a price of $17K and since they did not sell GC went as low as 11K and are now giving them back to the company. Well one guy wrote in and actually had the Ernie Balls to ask the company if they could burn the returns so the guys who bought them could try and retain some value, oh how I love how straight up collectors think. But as the original poster stated how does EBMM pull it off is really a good one, because just about anywhere else for a quilt or maple top or a birdseye maple neck right off the bat you are in Custom Shop territory never mind the wicked color schemes that are offered.
 
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>Then you have the one that takes the ultimate prize -The Relic which I hate
>with a passion. I could understand someone wanting a neck that feels like it
>was broken in, but paying 5k up to 20K for a guitar that looks like it was tied to
>a bumper and dragged around the block is just ludicrous

I couldn't agree more... I have no idea why anybody would want an artificially worn guitar (and pay extra money for it also). Same goes for the artificially aged finishes that Gibson puts on many of their guitars. I guess nobody wants to wait 40-50 years these days :)

-Jeff
 
Trent

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Worth every penny!

I get what they are about.
For me a company that works hard to make such a great product at such a fair price deserves my money.
And the customer service is outstanding as well.:D
 
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Trent said:
Just trying to say that these guys are doing a great job of making guitars and keeping the cost down.
GREAT JOB!
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Big Poppa said:
No strings only underwrite when they have to. It is a commited investment in peop[le, technology and not burdened by heavy debt.
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A great product at a fair price and their customer service is one of the best in the industry from my personal experience.:D
 
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