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  • VinnyVinny Frets: 3
    Re Guild, there are great quality secondhand examples from the various Guild production facilities, but In my opinion, the New Hartford factory guitars are the best option.
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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    I don't really know for sure, @guitarjack66 but they are owned by Cordoba, and I believe that they are pretty decent. (I should look into that further. I really just remember hearing an interview with the head man and he seemed to have his heart in the right place. Can't remember any details now.) 

    As for their lower end Chinese products ... well, who can say? How deeply do they dig into the sourcing of their timbers? Is it even really possible to do that in China? (Probably not - once logs are sawn into billets, even Interpol can't tell whether they were legally felled or not.)
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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    Tannin said:
    I don't really know for sure, @guitarjack66 but they are owned by Cordoba, and I believe that they are pretty decent. (I should look into that further. I really just remember hearing an interview with the head man and he seemed to have his heart in the right place. Can't remember any details now.) 

    As for their lower end Chinese products ... well, who can say? How deeply do they dig into the sourcing of their timbers? Is it even really possible to do that in China? (Probably not - once logs are sawn into billets, even Interpol can't tell whether they were legally felled or not.)
    Yes it's a sad state of affairs at the moment. I do wonder though that given this is perceived 'golden age' for guitar buyers if this resource problem is relatively recent? It seems guitars have only became extremely popular very recently,from an historic point of view? I certainly couldnt have seen somebody like myself getting involved in playing 20 years ago and the covid newcomers havent helped stop the mass production of the instrument either. I think that a good thing about guitarists and musicians in general is that our instruments are often passed on or stripped for parts and this helps wastage be kept to a minimum. I am not sure I can see that continuing with the proliferation of very cheap models though,I hope so.
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