♪ PV Guitar ♪: 19 de jun. de 2009

sexta-feira, 19 de junho de 2009

Acho realmente um absurdo o preço pelo qual são vendidas as guitarras importadas aqui no Brasil. Não sei onde está erro - na importadora ou na loja - mas sei que está muito errado. Abaixo, uma pagina achada na internet pertencente a um luthier chamado Ed Roman falando à respeito das Gibson.
Tirem suas conclusões.

Handmade Guitars

What Does Hand-Made Really Mean ??

Hand-Made is a much abused term!!!

Is a guitar really handmade if its made by 100 pairs of hands aided by several million dollars worth of machines? (Like Gibson or Taylor)

I prefer to think that the term handmade should only apply to a situation where there are a very small number of hands under the direct supervision of one master luthier. (Like Rick Gledura,)

The use of some power tools does not detract as long as one or two men guide the entire process, from initial guitar design, through wood selection, carving, fretting, finishing, final assembly & setup.

These guitars must each be treated individually as unique work. Mass produced guitars suffer from the natural variances involved in the marriage of the different woods used.

Handmade guitars produced under the close scrutiny of one master luthier, can easily overcome these variances through careful selection and tuning of all the parts. This process effectively creates a unique quality and a vast improvement on the product especially where tone is a major concern.

Ed Roman,
01/17/89

Rick proudly exhibits one of his handmade hand carved models

Rick sets each fret in each handmade guitar personally

These photos were taken at the PRS factory
You are looking at a CNC Machine !!!

Computer Numerically Controlled

All of the delicate cutting operations are done by an $85,000.00 machine. All of the shaping, sanding, binding & fitting is robotically accomplished. There are no human hands, no human eyes to line up the wood perfectly so that imperfections in the wood fall into locations that won't be seen later. There is nothing illegal about building a guitar with a machine.

I feel, it's totally unethical & immoral to charge the extremely high handmade prices, just because you made your original reputation by building handmade guitars.