My very first post;
I'd like to add my thoughts here if I may.
This is my first post in this forum and I have read all of the posts to this topic.
I am a beginning guitar player. I own a Cort guitar that I bought 9 years ago, made in Korea. The shop I bought it from made it sound like a very good entry level guitar, which it has been. I'm now looking for another guitar and while I would love to own a Gibson J-45 I can't justify the cost for me as I'm just not that good a player yet. So I am looking to keep the cost under $1000 CAD.
I have played over a dozen guitars, Taylor, Martin, Larrivee, Seagull, S&P, Takamine, Epiphone, Guild in the past couple of months trying to find one that I like. When I played the Guild, it was a GAD-50, it sounded like what I wanted. I could not tell where it was made by it's sound, nor can I tell where a Honda Accord is made just by listening to it idle, or a Panasonic TV by watching a football game, etc...
Frankly I don't care where it is made, as someone put it earlier, if you believe in your product you put your name on it. A Larrivee is still a Larrivee even if they are made in California now and not Canada where they originated, correct?
Some day I might want to buy myself a $2000 guitar, but not today. I love the look of the Guild, the sound of the Guild and the price. If I buy it and am satisfied, I would buy another. At this time I'm not that satified with my Cort. Perhaps, even though I'm a beginner at this, my playing has improved past the point of this guitar?, so I want to move up a couple of steps.
Anyway I'm off to play an Epi AJ-500 made in china to compare it with the Guild GAD, and I'm looking forward to it.
Graham
I'm very glad they have Guild on the headstock!