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gerundino63
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Joined: Jul. 11 2003
From: The Netherlands
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RE: Flamenco guitar pricing (in reply to NorCalluthier)
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Could it be possible that the secondhand market for flamenco guitars is very different than the classical market? If you do a good search, and enter the second hand market, it is not difficult to find a good used Granada hand built (madrid build is mostly more expensive because they drift on the classical market, an exeption for Conde) for 2500 euro or less? Why would I pay more than, 6000 euro is a lot of more money. Do not take me wrong, if you live in the states or europe, it is not possible to make a hand made guitar for 3000-4000 euro, but Andalucia is very different. For 100.000 euro or less, you can buy a nice house. So, I think, there are a lot of builders in Andalucia that sets the price. If you want to enter that market, you have to be competetive with that pricing.
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Date Apr. 3 2019 8:27:30
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RobF
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RE: Flamenco guitar pricing (in reply to gerundino63)
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Hi gerundino, I agree the price of a new guitar may sound really high, but we have been talking using dollars and not the Euro. I think when the conversion is done the prices Andy and Brian mention are competitive. From what I've seen here in Granada, nobody is giving their guitars away. At this point in time, my prices are lower because I am still building my reputation and I also adjust down a bit further for the EU market for the same reason. But my friends here are working to help me change that. There is a bottom line, however, any lower and there really is no point in doing this, making a good guitar actually requires work, as well as the investment in wood, equipment, and education.
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Date Apr. 3 2019 8:45:42
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NorCalluthier
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RE: Flamenco guitar pricing (in reply to NorCalluthier)
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Hello Rob and Mark, Thank you Rob for the compliment! I call making guitars my "benign addiction" (:->)... Mark, I think that you are right-on about the worth of the expensive guitar. I had my choice of several Arcangels from Juan Parra when he showed up at my teacher's house with half a dozen of them. When he let me play his "personal Archie" aka his "boss box", it was all over. I had to have that one. It took me a year and a half of phone calls to finally catch him needing money, and I paid him a 50% surcharge over his standard price for any of his others. Worth it? Did you have to ask? So, I go to some considerable lengths to try to build guitars with that something extra that makes them such a thrill to play. In addition to the big things that I talk about in the My Process videos on my website, I have my 1% list. Those are small things that I think make a difference, but I haven't proven that they do. I love to teach what I've learned, and lately I've been teaching online using video calling. People do come here to my shop from all over, but that's a major commitment of time and money, and using online video works surprisingly well. Cheers, Brian
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Date Apr. 3 2019 17:26:13
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