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Presumably the first top was quite expensive so the cost of that is being saved along the way.
I'm not suggesting that a Gibson LP with a fancy top is not a better guitar all round than an Epi LP, although I might be asking if a Gibson with a plain top is worth substantially the same as a Gibson with a fancy top, despite the big price differential..
I'm not seriously bothered by it either way, just pondering aloud.
My view is that someone would be paying for exclusivity - ie "there is no other PRS in the world with this wood/ pattern/ history/ etc/ etc" Maybe the timber came from the keel of the Mary Rose...
I saw a watch in Nice airport duty free - normal price a ridiculous €28,000 .or you could have one where the watch face was a slice of meteorite rather than ceramic at a cool €52,000 . It's often a richman's version of who can piss the highest up the wall.
When I told my friend one of the reasons I was getting a Gibson LP over an Epiphone is that the Gibson has a relatively thick cap of maple over the mahogany where the Epiphone just has a veneer and he had a similar thought to you and said he was surprised that maple is that much more expensive than mahogany - it's not that it is more expensive in itself, just that the guitar on offer which has the maple cap is more expensive than the one without and that was one of the differences I was prepared to pay more for.
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