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Yeah it's pretty cool and all but I think it's gonna be a super hard sell. It's $4200, no stainless steel frets or locking tuners. It's got a super expensive 5A flame maple top but you can barely see the top because the trans white color is pretty opaque. You can only see a very tiny bit of flame and most of the flame only shows up in the natural reveal binding. It's also got that M3 body but it's also set-thru which is more complicated and expensive than just simply doing a neck through I assume. I think the prototype he's playing in the demo video on the website has a completely solid white paint job and the 5A top only shows through the binding. So yeah, I think this guitar is gonna be a super tough sell, much like the ultra expensive Cazqui Orbit. Many people think it looks cool, I do too, but who's gonna be able to shell out $4200 and barely be able to see that super expensive 5A flame maple top? Tbh it's kind of a waste of nice flame maple. I get it's what the artist wanted but they really should've gone with a plain maple top, neck-through, stainless steel frets, and locking tuners at around $3200 and they would've sold like hot cakes.
Good point, especially with the applehorn 8. They definitely should've made a more affordable 6 string version. However, the CC Horus and the Killswitch engage models are decently priced, around $3k-$3.5k. The main thing that kills me the most is that you can barely see the 5A flame maple top that's super expensive and increasingly rare. Kills me every time I see PRS paint a nice flame maple top with a solid color paint job. Plus in my state the sales tax is 10 percent, so the new Angelus would cost something more like $4620...Caparison treats signature models like this sort of like how ESP does the exhibition models.
They know they're not going to sell many, mainly to diehard Caparison players and fans of the artist, but they'll also shift more folks to the regular line.
How many Applehorn 8s do they move?
Besides, no one shopping Caparison cares about "value".
Darn it, you kinda got me with the point about no one shopping Caparison cares about value....you do make a good point about that too lolCaparison treats signature models like this sort of like how ESP does the exhibition models.
They know they're not going to sell many, mainly to diehard Caparison players and fans of the artist, but they'll also shift more folks to the regular line.
How many Applehorn 8s do they move?
Besides, no one shopping Caparison cares about "value".
Hmm I don't doubt that it's not expensive or rare at retail but the companies that are actually building these guitars are charging $500, $1000, $2000 for a nice piece of flame maple and the flame maple veneers that they use for their production guitars look super super lame and non-figured these days which makes me assume that flame maple is getting rarer or these companies are penny pinching.
Right, but I mean Caparison does use very nicely figured flame maple tops, so I think the 5A designation is earned but I saw that something like only 1 percent of maple trees end up yielding flame maple so it sounds very rare but I guess 1 percent of let's say 100 million maple trees is still a million with flaming. Either way, scalping guitar players seems to be the name of the game in the guitar industry these days.
