NYWolf
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If guitars selling for just under $1k are considered student guitars...either students are very wealthy these days, or Guild is branching out of the workingman's guitar market!
If you take your craft seriously, and your work is playing music, you want to sound as good as can be. As jazz musicians, if we choose to play an archtop, it can't be cheap just by the amount of work that goes into making one. If they are cheap, it simply means that makers cut a lot of corners, which affects the quality proportionally. You can gig with NS guitars (I do for now), but why should you given the choice? I'm not collecting guitars, I rather invest into some quality instrument that I can play and enjoy. $3000 is not much. Play a few weddings and basically it pays for itself.
I found this article for you, still think it's expensive? read!:fat:
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20364-spoiled-guitarists-that-guitar-costs-emhowem-much