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What is your guilt leval for owning a clone?

What is your guilt leval for owning a clone?

  • 0 guilt

    Votes: 156 80.0%

  • 1-5 guilt

    Votes: 9 4.6%

  • 6-9 guilt

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • 10+ guilt

    Votes: 3 1.5%

  • Carrots

    Votes: 25 12.8%
  • Total voters
    195
#42
Liam Wald said:
There are numerous companies who make a better "Fender" than Fender does.
Many Pro-players pay thousands more than the price of a Fender to get a better "Fender".
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I was referring to import clones being appropriate for players like me.
Not for better players, that mainly play name brands, and custom guitars, and basses.
We are on the same page.
For me, I do Import clones, with good electronics, and custom pickups.
T
 
#43
big_teee said:
I was referring to import clones being appropriate for players like me.
Not for better players, that mainly play name brands, and custom guitars, and basses.
We are on the same page.
For me, I do Import clones, with good electronics, and custom pickups.
T
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What in the wide world makes you think that the good stuff isn't "appropriate for players like you"? Junk gear can hold you way back!
 
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#44
I enjoy making a silk purse from a sows ear.
I'm old and just tinker mainly with guitars and basses, not much of a player.
I don't perform, I do work on guitars and basses for local shops.
I have lots of cheap test clone guitars and basses to test my custom pickups in.
Fixing to buy a cheap P, to rout for my new Multi-Coils.
There are all levels of gear for all, I choose the cheap stuff.
Peace and Tone,
T
 
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#47
lfmn16 said:
If you build it no one is profiting off of someone else's IP, if you buy it, the counterfeiter is profiting off of someone else's IP.
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True. But if you use their design, build the pedal and don't pay them anything, you are profiting in the amount of the purchase price of the pedal (that you didn't purchase from them).
Does how I said that make sense to anybody?
 
#54
I have a Warmoth fretless J and a Cabronita.
I love them both and there is a special mojo to playing instruments that you put together yourself, kinda like how Jedi make their own light sabers.
 
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#55
My view is that all companies are "mom and pop" to some extent, and it takes a conscious blind eye to so shamelessly buy an ultimate drive over an OCD, or to buy a bass soul food over a bass klon etc. It also takes a conscious blind eye for companies to so shamelessly produce such pedals and just name them something else. For me, if a design is within 20% of the original (in any aspect), it's 100% trash.
 
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Dash Lashes said:
My view is that all companies are "mom and pop" to some extent, and it takes a conscious blind eye to so shamelessly buy an ultimate drive over an OCD, or to buy a bass soul food over a bass klon etc. It also takes a conscious blind eye for companies to so shamelessly produce such pedals and just name them something else. For me, if a design is within 20% of the original (in any aspect), it's 100% trash.
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Cool, so you baited us into voicing our opinions.
For what purpose?

OCD is a clone.
And no, not all companies are "mom & pop".
MXR? Boss? Not even close.
As far as pedals go, at one time there weren't any. So once the first of a type is made, are all subsequent ones clones? Where is the line drawn?
 
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