Le Jeff
Well-Known Member
Yes, this guitar with full binding and a fancy headstock and unique forearm relief is the epitome of "stripped down". Also, $400 for an import version which is lacking in every important way is too much? Is it too much when Ibanez does it? My Indo RG is (basically) a $400 copy of my Jem - so what? You can't say a guitar is only worth how it plays and sounds. So much of what a guitar is comes from how you feel when you see it and go to grab it. Would I buy a BM? F*** no because there's no way it's worth the bill. Would I buy a copy if I could try it first? Maybe... I'd definitely pick it up and give it a rip because, to look at, they're dead sexy.Yeah, that's what I don't get - you guys are calling these replicas, but they're not. The whole idea of a blackmachine was that the most important parts of a guitar were done really well, and the unimportant parts were stripped away. So what you had was a flat topped guitar with no contouring or carving, basic electronics, basic body shape, etc. But in this case, the stripped away basic guitar is there, but the stuff that makes a blackmachine significant - high quality woods and excellent craftsmanship - are not. So are you guys just fans of the stripped down look? I guess I'm not seeing the attraction. To me it would be like having a race car that was stripped of the comforts like AC, but could go really fast. And then you get a car made to look like it, but that can't go really fast. To me, $400 for these guitars seems overpriced. But, I guess I'm not the target audience.