I wonder if this will put more R&D into making carbon fiber guitars sound better.
I owned a Rainsong S-DR1000N2 that I got for a great price, and it was a terrific guitar. I think the satin finish CF guitars sound better than their gloss counterparts. Shouldn't have sold that one!Anyone here owned/played/spent time with a Rainsong guitar?
I owned a Rainsong S-DR1000N2 that I got for a great price, and it was a terrific guitar. I think the satin finish CF guitars sound better than their gloss counterparts. Shouldn't have sold that one!
How long until all guitar-making is outlawed and my stash rockets in value up to a billion dollars?I wonder what the short-term impacts will be on Guild? How much khaya do they have stashed in Oxnard? How much is stashed in China and allotted for the Westerly series? What will they switch to - sipo, sapele, okoume, something else? And how long before those 3 mahog-alikes go on CITES Appendix II?
I love it when you play the "what if?" game.How long until all guitar-making is outlawed and my stash rockets in value up to a billion dollars?
I wonder what the short-term impacts will be on Guild? How much khaya do they have stashed in Oxnard? How much is stashed in China and allotted for the Westerly series? What will they switch to - sipo, sapele, okoume, something else? And how long before those 3 mahog-alikes go on CITES Appendix II?
I would think they could as long as the wood source is documented to show it was in-house prior to Feb 2023.Could Guild even use the stash in Asia for instruments intended for import into the USA after February 2023?
I don't think it works this way, guys. Whatever supply Cordoba keeps at it's Asian-based contractors is likely not going to come to the USA. I could be wrong, though since my recollection on all this comes from the Fender days when Tim Shaw and Paul Meisenzahl helped describe how they were doing this. Fender people did, indeed, help to choose the wood in Asia, but there was no discussion about exporting it to the US. It didn't come from the US, as I recall.Could Guild even use the stash in Asia for instruments intended for import into the USA after February 2023?
The closest I've come is that I've played a few Adamas (Ovation) guitars that were spectacular. I don't know if the bowls were made from CF or from fiberglass, and there was wood on those guitars as well. But, they were terrific (and rather $$).I owned a Rainsong S-DR1000N2 that I got for a great price, and it was a terrific guitar. I think the satin finish CF guitars sound better than their gloss counterparts. Shouldn't have sold that one!
The import is the finished product and not wood to be made into a guitar in the USAI don't think it works this way, guys. Whatever supply Cordoba keeps at it's Asian-based contractors is likely not going to come to the USA. I could be wrong, though since my recollection on all this comes from the Fender days when Tim Shaw and Paul Meisenzahl helped describe how they were doing this. Fender people did, indeed, help to choose the wood in Asia, but there was no discussion about exporting it to the US. It didn't come from the US, as I recall.
I'd like to believe that is possible, especially if the importer is a large corporation but the experience of individuals with musical instruments (not just guitars) doesn't suggest it is a likely certainty. IMO. YMMV.I would think they could as long as the wood source is documented to show it was in-house prior to Feb 2023.