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In the 1990's a Masterbuilt guitar was around $500 over the price of a teambuilt....todays its $3000. Explain that.
There are no 'Masters' left at Fender. They all left years back and started up companies themselves. I see they've just taken on a couple of new builders at FCS....Carlos Lopez and Kyle Mcmillin. But still demand grows through clever marketing and myth creating. The difference between team built and masterbuilt is marginal. The relic work is often more detailed but beyond that you're paying for not a whole lot else....but if you've nothing better to do with your money then go ahead...make your dealers day....whats the dealer profit on a £6499....£2k+?
But can you play it?
Or should I say, can you play it well?
Maybe.
Or maybe you like buying expensive guitars?
Just saying.
BTW, if Michele Roux Jr ran a Weatherspoons kitchen, it'd be brilliant.
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VAT is 1K
Keep it longer than 5 years and the daily cost is reduced - Granted sell it 2 months or 12 months later and daily costs will have increased
Unless you want some silly outlandish finish, Fender guitars are neither haute cuisine or "luthiery".
I don't understand why people moan about bolt on guitars like fenders but don't say shit about suhr/Anderson and the rest.
Even a Gibson les Paul is a lot of cnc with a shitty glue join for the neck to the body but it's ok because they are the pinicle of luthier perfection right?
Echoparks are 10k and they are fucking shocking. Wheres the uproar about them?
You can put every single last detail of your perfect Tele in place for, let's be generous, two grand. You'll get the right woods, great hardware, lovely handwound pickups and a perfect setup.
Adding four thousand pounds on top of that merely buys you a story to tell, a bit of a warm glow, some bragging rights, and a feeling of being connected somehow to important people in the industry.
What it doesn't and can't do is buy you a better Telecaster, you already did that four grand ago.
My teambuilt CS 61 strat is the best one I’ve played bar none. Helps that it was a “good” deal at £2.5k new. I wouldn’t pay much more than that for any strat.
What's an Echopark? Other than a Feeder album...
They were not designed to be cheap shit - they were designed to be mass-produced by factory workers rather than luthiers.
And you're right, if you've seen inside some Gibson neck joints it makes 70s Fenders look like precision engineering.
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However the PRS and Suhrs at £2300 ish are spec'd the same - Little variation/options - That saves production time with running one model and can run the spray both in batches - ie sunburst today and LPB tomorrow etc
The large majority of CS Guitars are one offs - I don't order 10 x 62 Strats the same - Different neck profiles, colours less aged to seriously aged etc - Such options will add time and costs to a production line - Won't account for a £700/800 price differential over a Suhr/PRS but it is an additional point