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"When Fender Mexico sends its strats, they're not sending their best...they're sending strats that have lots of problems and they are bringing those problems....and some I assume, are good strats" -Trump 2015
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I always heard it was 38.9% and I believed it. Now I'm not sure which one is made up.But we don't covet them all that much. 99/100 American musicians have no idea that those are even brand names. This changes to 92/100 is we are talking about American metal musicians.
38.8% of all stats are made up on the spot.
"When Fender Mexico sends its strats, they're not sending their best...they're sending strats that have lots of problems and they are bringing those problems....and some I assume, are good strats" -Trump 2015
Can a gif go in a signature?
Who's offended? We're just talking about the minutiae of it and how it's referred to differently in some regions.
Just interesting to think about.![]()
Just from how people worded it, calling specific guitars imports definitely stepped on some toes.
Import guitars are built better than they ever have, and are more widely available in several different tastes and configurations. It's a good thing all around, but yeah I will absolutely remind myself that I'm playing an "import" Strandberg when I pick one up and remind myself what they're asking for those guitars.
The demographic that benefits the most from the recent change are beginners, the amount of choice and price points available for genuinely cool guitars is incredible. But you won't catch me paying asking prices for some brands/models and yes country of origin will always carry some weight in that![]()
Ibanez Pig Iron Label.Huh? I'd say that there is a lot less snobbery about it now than there was in the 2000's, or even less so than the 1990's, and less still than the 1980's. And it's been earned. My first guitar was a mid-1980's Hondo that was made in Korea and was basically a piece of firewood. Harmonys and Magnums from the same time period were more or less equally shitty. I feel like Korean guitars by the mid-1990's were pretty good as a general rule, and now they are actually really good, as the cheaper stuff is now coming from two waves of developing industrial nations behind them... next up Ibanez's Zinc label guitars, made in Somalia or Congo... or wherever it's cheapest to exploit workers.
. Harmonys and Magnums from the same time period were more or less equally shitty.
I think folks were just amused about how Americentric a term it is.
That's what the euphemism of "import" was replacing: "cheap".
Back in the 90's when legacy American brands started doing more globally sourced guitars the reps used to stress using the term "import" vs. "cheaper".
I think the main reason why europeans don't use the term is the lack of actual guitar factories in europe. Almost every non-boutique brand manufactures either in the US or in Asia (so basically pretty much everything would be an import to us). So as someone mentioned above we just refer to them by their country of manufacture.
Actually, I was amused that someone thought such an americentric term was believed by some americans to be used by everybody else.I think folks were just amused about how Americentric a term it is.
I once dissasembled a guitar I bought in another country and took it home inside my cabin suitcase. Does that count as smuggling?![]()
It depends. Is "my cabin suitcase" a pet name for your butthole?I once dissasembled a guitar I bought in another country and took it home inside my cabin suitcase. Does that count as smuggling?![]()
I once dissasembled a guitar I bought in another country and took it home inside my cabin suitcase. Does that count as smuggling?![]()
View attachment 108110Necrobump! Saw this on Facebook, apparently it's setup at the welcome to Rockville festival thing.