mesavox said:
I don't know why you don't believe that it was because of numbers like Eddie says... You seem hung up on this 1000 number. EVH wanted to sell way more than 1000 of them a year. Remember, the waiting time was at times nearly a year.
So, let's say they built 1000 EVH's a year. But, the demand was for 1500 of them a year. Now, let's say they build 1000 Axis a year but the demand is 900 from customers and the extra 100 from stores just ordering some for stock.
See the diff? Those are just numbers pulled from a hat, but it is how supply and demand works and Eddie wanted the supply to always be where the demand is.
The reason I'm hung up on the 1,000 number is that is the number universally accepted as the production number per year of EVH's. For the record, I'm not hung up on anything, I'm just trying to make a point that seems to be spinning out of control. And the current implication is that there are a lot more Wolves produced anually than Axis. This may be true. I've just not heard anything other than opinion as to whether or not this is the case.
If your numbers are right then so be it. By your admisson they are just pulled from a hat. If the official count per year of Axis' produced is 1,000 or less, your point is 100% accurate. But if the actual number of Axis' currently produced per year is 2,000. Then I think my point is well made that they could have produced more EVH's if that was the only problem. Seems obvious to me. It also doesn't seem like a big deal other than for the sake of discussion.
With any manufacturer you have to consider factory capabilities too. It's very logical to think one factory could only produce 1,000 guitars of a certain quality while another factory has the man/woman and machine power to produce 5,000 at the same quality level.
I have no idea what the capacities of the given factories are and am not pretending to know. I'm just saying that's yet another variable.
I will say that with Fender and Gibson there is probably a better chance that qc issues will be more wide ranging just from my experience. I don't know if that's due to their size, practices, personnel, corproate structure or what. But I had a Fender Deluxe Strat Plus about 12 years ago that was a decent enough guitar. But some of the fret were lacquered up to the crown. I had to take a razor blade and trim it down and even then, there was enough lacquer on the frets that they got kind of funky with finger goo after a while. (mmmmmmmm finger goooo!)
Believe me, I hear what everyone is saying. And I'm not necessarily disagreeing. I'm just not agreeing. None of us has enough info to to say "this is why it is". I guess that's my hang up if I actually have one.
Nobody is a bigger EVH fan than I am but he is a business man in addition to being a guitar legend. Not that you have to lie to be a business man at all. The good ones don't lie. But they do tend to put every ounce of spin on they can whatever their official responses are. Again, it's not that I doubt his official statements on these products, I'd just be curious to see the numbers behind all the comments. It it turns out he's 100% correct and I'm just a suspicious nerd. I can live with that. And there have been multiple rumors about his departure from EBMM. That's how this tangent kind of got started in the fist place.
(J/J!!!)
