Gildeavalle -> RE: Why buy a handmade guitar? (May 31 2014 6:14:28)
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Orsonw, absolutely right with you. These days, I do not know of any professional guitar maker that tries to use arguments like handmade when it is not. Not everybody can afford bying a 100% hand made guitars, and thanks to factories and shops we have students introduced in the guitar world until they become professional guitarists that come to our guitar workshops and try our hand made guitars. Also what you say "a guitar that suits my hands or one that does not (whoever made it)" is absolutely right. When guitar makers have recognitions for their profession and 1.sell guitars and are renown in their own town, region or country, and also internationally it is a guarantee that he or she is good, also 2. if they have both distributors or 3. guitarists meeting the guitar maker directly in their workshop or even 4. ordering a fine guitar not even having tried it, directly through the net. In my case, and I think that in the case of most of my established and renown collegues in Granada those are the 4 different procedures. Otherwise when that guitar maker sells only abroad or through distributors after more than 15 years working (that's the time that the government establishes to become a master artisan), it means that he or she has good commercial connections, but why locals do not buy his or her guitars? . And also, respect and cooperation with our mates is very important. I respect every kind of business because it is the client the one who chooses and do not trust those who critizes or simply need an argument for selling guitars when it is your guitar the one that should sell not the argument of not having good guitarists around or with critics to other guitar makers o music stores, factories, etc. So, again, if you start and cannot afford a hand made guitar, do no be afraid of buying factory guitars to start with and then change to a guitar maker, try his or her product, enjoy and fall in love with it, and when you take the decision, be sure that you made right, whatever the rest of the world say. If you liked, you liked and that's the good decision.
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