a rose by any other name

[bobodechimp]

over the last week of reading threads i have found that a lot of companies will repackage others products and sell it under there name. exampled, Carniv flats are repackaged LaBella's. There are also the cloning side of things, exp. danelectro fuzz v-2 is a peach fuzz. Thou i would never buy from those Nazis What i was hopeing for was to fine out some of these little secrets. because a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet just cheaper.

[Ubersheist]

The cheapest strings out there that I know of are sold by Carvin. Their steel and nickel strings are made by LaBella, too, I believe. I could be wrong, and someone will probably correct me. I know that they aren't made by Carvin; Carvin just repackages them. While there's more string makers these days then there were 10 or 20 years ago, there's still only a relative few of them. Lots of other companies repackage strings and call them their own.

As far as other gear goes, I'm clueless. Isn't a Lakland jazz just a repackaged MIM Fender Jazz? I can't tell the difference!