They have been making very good acoustic guitars in Mexico for a very very long time; there’s a substantial home market for them.
My 2010 Jetta TDI Sportwagen was made in Mexico and it’s proven really well made; The most expensive repairs I've had done (other than fixing the cheater diesel issue, for which VW gave me back ?rd of the original cost) has been a front ball joint that was replaced prophylactically because of a torn boot on the joint probably let grit into it.
China CAN make very very good machine tools; not everything is ‘chinesium’; everything CHEAP is though, and guess what this list is about :-)
On Mar 19, 2024, at 2:22 PM, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
yep . I was with a but lookin to buy a Martin a few years back
& after 2 trips to the guitar store we had them narrowed down
to 5 . So we go back on the third day & he finally makes the
decision which one . Gets up to the register & that's when he
saw the paperwork with Made in Mexico . He didn't want one made on
Mexico & I can hang with that but we went back to the " good
guitar room " & he made his new decision almost purely on
USA/Mexico . The one he ended up with would not have been my first
choice but it is becoming a nice playable guitar , it's still
learning it's tone . I still think the one from Mexico sounded a
lot better to me ,? I finally quit telling him that after I said
in from of his wife one day & she ripped him pretty god for
that after I left . I know plenty of parents that went to Guitar
Center (? which I loathe ) to buy their kid a guitar for Christmas
or birthday & then find out later that the guitar was made in
Japan or Mexico . Their still nice playable guitars but American
see's Fender Guitars as a American company & that's what they
expect when they purchase .
animal
On 3/19/24 2:10 PM, Ralph Lehotsky
wrote:
A
lot of Martin guitars are now made in Mexico!!
?
ralphie
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Bruce Johnson
The less a man knows about how sausages and laws are made, the easier it is to steal his vote and give him botulism.
