this thread seems to have resurrected and as I said before I have no interest in drop tuners - don't even know what they do and can't be bothered to find out.
However as we've all found out in the past there have been some very suspect quality Chinese hardware either music or I dunno just general stuff like door locks.
I'm with @Pep on this - no longer can Chinese made guitars be considered "crap" as some folks on here say. Chinese luthiers are very talented and have been for over 500 years or more and it does not take a leap of learning to move from traditional instruments to 21st century guitars, but if that base now is good enough for Dingwall - and they're not in the market for losing sales - there is faith in the Chinese workforce to produce quality instruments and seem to actively encourage their products to be more affordable to you and I by being made their and again as @Pep spelled out the QC is undertaken back in Canada, these are by no means cheap but top quality guitars at a 3rd to Half of the price of western made objects.
What is sad is the die hard that anything western is better. This happened with Japanese cars and products in the 70' and 80's they were a joke to US consumers but they started every time and didn't rot on your drive. Ask yourselves why Fender started producing MIJ?, simply because there was a skilled workforce that could produce f7enders at 2/3rd the price of the US and as some will say a better and more consistend quality free from Friday afternoon specials.
It's strange that in the world of tuners no-one these days are shooting down Gotoh but Guyker still seem to be rubbish. I think we all need to examine our prejudices because if you sit as king of the hill for too long US will be overtaken in the quality department apart from the die hard rednecks who will one day be playing cheap copies of Japanese and Chinese hardware imports. And no I am in now way endorsing Chinese products or do I have a "red" agenda, we in the UK thought our industry was the pinnacle of engineering but now we are just niche.
However as we've all found out in the past there have been some very suspect quality Chinese hardware either music or I dunno just general stuff like door locks.
I'm with @Pep on this - no longer can Chinese made guitars be considered "crap" as some folks on here say. Chinese luthiers are very talented and have been for over 500 years or more and it does not take a leap of learning to move from traditional instruments to 21st century guitars, but if that base now is good enough for Dingwall - and they're not in the market for losing sales - there is faith in the Chinese workforce to produce quality instruments and seem to actively encourage their products to be more affordable to you and I by being made their and again as @Pep spelled out the QC is undertaken back in Canada, these are by no means cheap but top quality guitars at a 3rd to Half of the price of western made objects.
What is sad is the die hard that anything western is better. This happened with Japanese cars and products in the 70' and 80's they were a joke to US consumers but they started every time and didn't rot on your drive. Ask yourselves why Fender started producing MIJ?, simply because there was a skilled workforce that could produce f7enders at 2/3rd the price of the US and as some will say a better and more consistend quality free from Friday afternoon specials.
It's strange that in the world of tuners no-one these days are shooting down Gotoh but Guyker still seem to be rubbish. I think we all need to examine our prejudices because if you sit as king of the hill for too long US will be overtaken in the quality department apart from the die hard rednecks who will one day be playing cheap copies of Japanese and Chinese hardware imports. And no I am in now way endorsing Chinese products or do I have a "red" agenda, we in the UK thought our industry was the pinnacle of engineering but now we are just niche.
