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08-15-2006, 09:41 AM
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08-15-2006, 10:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | Interesting, thanks. So, Japan is buying MIAs for their prestige, and some Americans (including me) are buying MIJs for their high quality at a reasonable price. To each his own. 
Personally, I've never quite understood how Gibson gets away with such a high markup for their stuff. I own a Gibson Les Paul, but it's really not my favorite six-string guitar. It's just too limited in its range of tones: let's see, there's "fat & chunky", and then there's "fatter and chunkier". That's it. I generally prefer to play my Schecter with its 2 splittable humbuckers and 3-position switch. I can get just about anything I want out of it.
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08-15-2006, 10:23 AM
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08-15-2006, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Vandelay Personally, I've never quite understood how Gibson gets away with such a high markup for their stuff. I own a Gibson Les Paul, but it's really not my favorite six-string guitar. It's just too limited in its range of tones: let's see, there's "fat & chunky", and then there's "fatter and chunkier". That's it. I generally prefer to play my Schecter with its 2 splittable humbuckers and 3-position switch. I can get just about anything I want out of it. | I'll bet the "fat and chunky" options on the Schecter don't sound as good as the Les Paul. The guitar player in my band has a PRS that basically can get any sound he wants with that crazy switch. Lateley he's been playing his Les Paul instead. It just plain sounds better.
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08-15-2006, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Vandelay Interesting, thanks. So, Japan is buying MIAs for their prestige, and some Americans (including me) are buying MIJs for their high quality at a reasonable price. To each his own.
Personally, I've never quite understood how Gibson gets away with such a high markup for their stuff. I own a Gibson Les Paul, but it's really not my favorite six-string guitar. It's just too limited in its range of tones: let's see, there's "fat & chunky", and then there's "fatter and chunkier". That's it. I generally prefer to play my Schecter with its 2 splittable humbuckers and 3-position switch. I can get just about anything I want out of it. | you haven't worked with your paul enough then dude. i get a ton of tones out of my 59 reissue. it does it all, clean, dirty, jazz, metal with very little effort. this guitar will crush any schecter. no offense. jeff Click to see image
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08-15-2006, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jwl you haven't worked with your paul enough then dude. i get a ton of tones out of my 59 reissue. it does it all, clean, dirty, jazz, metal with very little effort. this guitar will crush any schecter. no offense. jeff | does this pic have to be this big?
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Originally Posted by NJL does this pic have to be this big? | sorry  |
08-15-2006, 03:38 PM
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08-15-2006, 04:56 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | I have been hearing this for years ,I bet you could find just about any guitar or bass made either in the USA or Japan in one of the great shops in Japan. 
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08-16-2006, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by James_B One day I'll own an Ameican made insturment. | This made me think.
Nearly all of my instruments are the 'cheaper' 'import' version. My Jazz is the standard model, MIJ back then, but equivalent basically to todays MIM, before I started mod'ing it.
My Hamer is Korean. So is my Spector, I think. My keyboard is a semi-prehistoric Yamaha.
My mandolin was made by a local luthier, since deceased. My didgeridus were made by guys from Texas, one from San Antonio, one from Weatherford. My 12-string guitar came from El Cajon, California.
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08-16-2006, 05:01 AM
| | | | There's also something of a "not made here" factor - it's not just japan.
I remember back in the early 90's the guys I knew in the US all wanted Trace Elliot rigs (made in the UK), while in the UK I wanted a Hartke rig (back when Hartke were a top end brand that only made the TA Cabs, rather than the budget stuff they make now). No question both were top end gear, but in the US the high import prices gave Trace a mystique, and visa versa.
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