I told you guys that I had a private email, which I thought you'd appreciate. No one asked for it (stinkweeds), but here it is anyway.
"Mr Jimmy!
Dude, that whole email was funny as poopie! LOL! The line "if the Koreans were capable of building such weapons of mass destruction, how the f%*k did they lose the war?" literally just made coffee fly outta my nose. I'll letcha in on a few trade secrets.... Back when I started working with overseas companies, they would ask me questions like "Would you like the frets dressed so you can have low action with no buzzing?" Well, of course!
"That will be an extra $25 cents per guitar.
Would you like the fret ends filed down so they're not sharp?" Isn't that a given?
"Well, that is extra labor. That will be an extra $12 cents per guitar"
And on and on it went...do you want good wiring, do you want good pots and hardware etc etc, each crucial upgrade being a nominal additional charge. So to have the best of everything...name brand hardware (everything is either Gotoh, Grover or Wilkinson) the best wood, my own designed pickups, the best workers in the factory to do the fretwork, paint and assembly etc came to like an extra $22 bucks per guitar. A measly $22 bucks!
BUT, if you're somebody like Epiphone, Dean etc that orders 10,000 guitars a year, that extra $22 bucks REALLY adds up. So all those companies for-go the upgrades, and you get guitars made out of balsa wood, with buzzing frets and sharp fret ends, all because they're worried about the bottom line. I don't order NEARLY that many, and I have to be able to sleep at night and couldn't be able to if I was cranking out poopie guitars to teenagers, so I shoot the moon on every guitar. I gotta tell ya too, those things rival the hand-built guitars that I make for you-know-who!
Another cool thing... when I was looking for an overseas factory, is that there's only 4 big factories over there, and one factory.. World Music...makes 99.9% of all the import guitars in the USA: Dean, Gibson, Fender, BC Rich, Epiphone, Schecter, ESP, PRS etc etc which is why they all have a similar feel.
The only difference between those guitars is how much extra those companies are willing to pay extra for the upgrades. Now ya know the rest of the story!
And a cool little side note, I didn't go with World Music, I went with a smaller company that doesn't build anything for the US market, they build for the European market. So that's why the "removed" guitars have a unique feel...because there's no other guitars in the US made by this particular factory, AND since they're a smaller factory, they have more attention to detail.
Bet ya didn't think there was so much crazy behind the scenes poopie goin' on!!
Oh hey, just got an email that you paid up on The Beast! Thank you Sir!! You're a good egg...
Ok I'm off for more coffee...it's one of those days. DEFINITELY shoot me some vids when you have the time, of The Beast going through your monster rig! Woa, Nelly! LOL, Talk to ya soon bed,
T&%y"
"Mr Jimmy!
Dude, that whole email was funny as poopie! LOL! The line "if the Koreans were capable of building such weapons of mass destruction, how the f%*k did they lose the war?" literally just made coffee fly outta my nose. I'll letcha in on a few trade secrets.... Back when I started working with overseas companies, they would ask me questions like "Would you like the frets dressed so you can have low action with no buzzing?" Well, of course!
"That will be an extra $25 cents per guitar.
Would you like the fret ends filed down so they're not sharp?" Isn't that a given?
"Well, that is extra labor. That will be an extra $12 cents per guitar"
And on and on it went...do you want good wiring, do you want good pots and hardware etc etc, each crucial upgrade being a nominal additional charge. So to have the best of everything...name brand hardware (everything is either Gotoh, Grover or Wilkinson) the best wood, my own designed pickups, the best workers in the factory to do the fretwork, paint and assembly etc came to like an extra $22 bucks per guitar. A measly $22 bucks!
BUT, if you're somebody like Epiphone, Dean etc that orders 10,000 guitars a year, that extra $22 bucks REALLY adds up. So all those companies for-go the upgrades, and you get guitars made out of balsa wood, with buzzing frets and sharp fret ends, all because they're worried about the bottom line. I don't order NEARLY that many, and I have to be able to sleep at night and couldn't be able to if I was cranking out poopie guitars to teenagers, so I shoot the moon on every guitar. I gotta tell ya too, those things rival the hand-built guitars that I make for you-know-who!
Another cool thing... when I was looking for an overseas factory, is that there's only 4 big factories over there, and one factory.. World Music...makes 99.9% of all the import guitars in the USA: Dean, Gibson, Fender, BC Rich, Epiphone, Schecter, ESP, PRS etc etc which is why they all have a similar feel.
The only difference between those guitars is how much extra those companies are willing to pay extra for the upgrades. Now ya know the rest of the story!
And a cool little side note, I didn't go with World Music, I went with a smaller company that doesn't build anything for the US market, they build for the European market. So that's why the "removed" guitars have a unique feel...because there's no other guitars in the US made by this particular factory, AND since they're a smaller factory, they have more attention to detail.
Bet ya didn't think there was so much crazy behind the scenes poopie goin' on!!
Oh hey, just got an email that you paid up on The Beast! Thank you Sir!! You're a good egg...
Ok I'm off for more coffee...it's one of those days. DEFINITELY shoot me some vids when you have the time, of The Beast going through your monster rig! Woa, Nelly! LOL, Talk to ya soon bed,
T&%y"
