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If that's not what you're intending to say...perhaps it might help to explain by re-wording it in a less confrontational manner?
If you are looking for a decent instrument to play what does it matter if it doesn’t conform to what is the expected norm?
You have a few jaden rose guitars, I’m not a massive fan of the looks tbh but I wouldn’t rule one out just based on that!.
We are all ' Posers '.....whether it's the car ,the house, boat,clothes,jewellery, Holiday choice , even mundane items like the Dyson .I guess the first Neanderthall to strap on a fur thong was considered a Poser by his naked Cave-mates !
Some people are orientated towards different priorities .....drive a shitty car but buy a valuable house and some live in an ex-council house but have a Range Rover on the drive
Somebody who drives a Ferrari ( irrespective of whether they drive on a racetrack ) may just be somebody who gets excited by cars and it makes them feel good or they simply love the looks /engineering .....I regard Porsche as a very discreet Sports car .Practical and humble ....a VW Beetle on steroids with a minimum of fuss and fancy.That was the design ethos of the 911 although sadly they have strayed from that mantra ;it was a car you could take shopping with no fuss or highly strung engine antics.
An antithesis of a Poseur 's car.
It's a real shame that they have moved on from that ethos with blingy over-sized water-cooled models that have become a bit grotesque after the 996/ 997 shape.I drove a Panamera 4s from Hertfordshire to Suffolk last week and it was pretty soulless.
I have had 911 E and 911T in the years when the Italian sports car equivalent was a Dino or Boxer or even a Miura that spent more time in the garage than it ever did on the road but the little Porsche with it's little boxer 2 litre engine or 2.4 just kept reilably plodding on like it's VW cousin.
My view is that if your criterion for buying a guitar is looks, brand or resale value then a custom made bespoke guitar isn’t going to be for you.
I’ve witnessed exactly what it takes to turn a pile of wood into handcrafted instruments. It’s a shit load of time, effort and skill. To dismiss the possibility of owning such a guitar based on looks etc undermines what guitar builders are trying to do... I’m fairly certain the like of Daniels, feline and Ivison are fed up with hearing that their guitars don’t compare to the big brands because of X, Y, Z.
it’s a shame because you really will be getting a better quality instrument compared to the big brands...
As for being a snob? I gig a couple of fender teles and a couple of my own guitars...I don’t own any bespoke instruments built by anyone other than myself. I have played more than a few handbuilt guitars and have been lent a few as well...
to answer the original question of would I consider a guitar on its own merit? Every day of the week!!!
as for the Porsche thing, there’s a tool for each job and that tool doesn’t have to be the most expensive or big branded tool!... it was said Porsche are bought by folk who “have lots of money and want the best” try getting 10 sheets of 8x4 plasterboard in one and see how that stacks up!...
If I am honest, my real love has always been acoustic guitar. That world is quite interesting in relation to the OP's question. At a general " I fancy a good acoustic guitar but not sure what to get ?" level , the general consensus would be Martin, Gibson, Taylor (the latter frowned upon for many years for not looking traditional enough, until time moved that one out of the way )After that you will get the, probably more honest answer to such a question ( more disliked on USA based forums ) "get a Yamaha, Eastman etc. it will do you just as well". This point could be debated for years, and has been already.
Then there is a whole other ballgame in the acoustic scene, that does not really translate to the relatively conservative electric market, the world of boutique built guitars. Here it gets interesting. There are a plethora of builders, very small shop or single man enterprises, who while being mostly unheard of to the mass market buyers, have 2/3 year waiting lists and run at £20k plus in quite a few cases. Every year there are new names on the "in the know" list, while others inexplicable fall off. The guys buying at the boutique end of the acoustic scene have to be either a) rich enough to risk losing a lot if they are gambling on an investment ,b) Wanting an special instrument to have as some kind of talking point or c) players who, while being able to afford it, are looking for a special guitar and will play the hell out of it to make music regardless of any thoughts to resale or whether anyone looking on recognises the maker.
Before the zombie apocalypse, I used to get out and tour twice a year solo. The thought has just hit me that two of the guitars that were top of my list to gig ( and still get used a lot now ), have no makers name on the headstock and do not look anything like a Martin or a Gibson. I guess that there were those in the audience who wondered if I couldn't afford a proper guitar, I will let them go on wondering
I'm assuming you didn't get to drive at Le Mans on a closed road. Or did you?...
You can probably have more fun on the roads in a horrible little car. My first car was a Peugeot 104. It had typical soft French suspension and really leaned when you took corners fast. Some corners felt really fast in that at 40mph. In my friend's dad's nice new car, you could cruise round them at 60mph no problem.