[Spridgets] Chinese Made "Stuff"

[Larry Daniels]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billy Zoom" <billyzoom at billyzoom.com>
To: "Kirk Hargreaves" <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>; <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Chinese Made "Stuff"


> Billy Zoom would know more about this than I - but from what I have seen,
The Japanese make the best guitars. The Chinese guitars aren't very good,
but they look OK.  I think the Chinese can some things well.  I don't
believe they can wind a decent transformer, and I don't believe that a
quality guitar can be built by people who don't understand what a guitar is.
American gear isn't that great anymore. Our labor costs too high, and our
products are usually designed by the sales department rather than the
engineering department. The biggest problem with American made guitars is
that everybody from the janitor on up thinks he's an expert.
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Billy, last year my wife and I and several other couples went to Memphis for 
the Memphis In May Blues Festival.  We toured the Gibson guitar factory only 
because it was only a block or so off Beale Street and we didn't want to 
stray too far from Beale for obvious reasons.  Allowing that I know 
absolutely zero about the subject, I was impressed by the Gibson tour.  What 
say you about them?  They impressed my teeny little mind about the subject.

LAD