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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Ignoring the “I hate Chappers” comments, the key points are:
- Anyone who launches a guitar for over £4K with no history in this price bracket is going to get some robust questioning on here
- Not stating the makers, the designers or anyone involved will always arouse suspicion
- Mystic “handwound” pickups will also arouse suspicion.
I personally have no problem with Chappers having his own guitar range - they seem reasonable for the money up to now.
However, decide to play with the expensive boys and you have to expect a degree of scrutiny well beyond the usual.. just look at the stick Gibson gets for the truer than true truest most historically accurate and true range.
Some people are just annoying though. Chappers is one of them. Other examples include Robbie Savage, Piers Morgan, and Jedward.
I'm almost certain you could spend £3.5k better than to buy a guitar as a differentiating factor for your band. To me that's not a great reason to buy an expensive instrument.
The whole 'decent guitar' for a successful musician thing... I'm not convinced by it as a concept if I'm brutally honest. Any mid range guitar is more than good enough these days to be used for live or recording, maybe you change the electronics or get a fret dress, but fundamentally there are very few instruments that are genuinely poor these days from the major manufacturers once you get above their beginner/entry level guitars.
The above. Having a Brit involved with lower budget guitars whilst he demos etc, is pretty cool. Not my style, and I would have liked one of the Pro range to be, but they are too metal orientated. But, 3.5-4k....it's a whole different ball game.
My feedback thread is here.
Incidentally, my opinion of him as a person falls between indifference and liking him.
The captain, on the other hand, I started out liking then the like got lesser then when he ruined the Danish Pete lesson with his ego I can't stand him lol
LEE: I just sold my 10,000th Les Paul of the year, a True historic - I uploaded that video of Pete playing it and it sold ten minutes later..
CHAPPERS: What are you going to buy Lee?
LEE: I've no idea, probably the souls of talented session musicians who have mortgages I suspect..
CHAPPERS: What if we launched a range of super-expensive guitars, make all the "coated in unicorn cum" statements all top brands use, Gibson even talked about using accurate glue for gods sake and PEOPLE SWALLOWED IT, Gibson would be raking it in if they were a guitar company not a slush fund for asset stripping electronics companies... we would then get ALL the £2000 margin on a £4000 guitar for us!!
LEE: Bit of a risk surely?
CHAPPERS: Why? We can use the channels to plug them, and we only need to order 15 at a time, our risk is at most £30k, and I already have more than that in Chapman guitars in cash AND we can both get custom guitars made for us and they would be DEDUCTABLE Lee! If we don't spend that cash we will have to pay TAX on it!
LEE: What's the catch, seems a great idea?
CHAPPERS: Well, some people on the internet won't like it, but in expressing their displeasure, they will be talking about us and our new venture, so all the publicity will also trickle down into sales of the rest of the range, and get more footfall in Andertons!
LEE: OK, I'll call some guys I know, line up some luthiers, phew, thought we would have nothing to announce at NAMM this year!