They're Canadian, but reasonble quality...
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Japan makes the best IMO
After all this years I have to find out that it actually is an intrument.
Mayones certainly makes my sandwich sing.
Jerzy Drozd (Spain) for bassists who never get enough love.
those guitars are also much higher quality than Gibson or fender
I haven't kept up with guitars in the past 20 years, but didn't fender and gipson fall off super hard quality wise?
it's not a production or design issue (and there are many)
it's just that for some reason the quality control has sunk to levels that have become unacceptable
I think Gibson has legitimately sunk in quality and is a shell of its former self, I'm not convinced Fender has. It is my understanding that QC slipped a bit during the pandemic and some instruments in rough shape left the factory, but I've seen reports of them honoring their warranty and replacing them with perfect instruments. I personally don't need another Fender, my '96 fat strat is still fit for purpose.
An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
I love this community because I'm learning a lot about where stuff is from. Case in point, I was going to suggest Ibanez and found out it's Japanese lol
Well, at least it's not from murica
I've played an Ibanez SR 300 bass on stage for years. I tried many others but nothing feels or sounds as good to me.
This is exactly what we should do for now - post every single post both here on Lemmy and on Reddit and we should constantly remind people that they have to switch to Lemmy!
What is reddit?
They will ban you for it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE
whichever one has the pickup and pickup positioning that gives the sound you want
La Mancha (Spain) make really nice acoustic guitars.
Strandberg
I've always wanted one of their 7 or 8 strings with the fanned frets but that price tag is steep
I've played one once in a shop and it was amazing. If I can ever afford to drop that much money on an instrument I will be going right to them
Solar.
Yes, they also have "Made in Europe"
Hagström is great, especially the Super Swede is on my favourite list.
Excellent guitars. Made in china, but still very good.
Speaking of excellent chinese guitars; Eastman acoustics are incredibly good.
Apparently they have brought back some of their production to sweden as of 2020 but don't ask me which models, because i don't know. I know production moved to china 2006 after not having any at all since the 80ies and they probably still make a lot of their new guitars there. Ive only played on a 70-80ies something superswede.
Playing a ultra swede for years, no complaints :)
Question from an Ibanez RG series lover - how do the Mayones, M-Tone and Vigier compare? Love me some long neck action and looking to expand my collection.
Also, I'd say Ibanez, but they're Japanese...
I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.
Warwick and Sandberg have a few made in Germany bass guitar lines that are pretty sick. Also Duesenberg - sooo beautiful
What EU brand would I be looking for if I wanted to buy a decent beginner friendly hollowbody?
Honestly I can warmly recommend the Thomann house brand, Harley Benton. The dirt cheap, entry level ones are on par with beginner models from known bands, and if you splurge a little more and get one of their nice ones, you'll have a really fine instrument for the price of the beginner model in the known brands.
They're German and the reason it's so cheap is they have 0 layers in the pipeline, they "manufacture" and sell directly. Most of their own brands punch well above their weight, but you should still look at the reviews etc for your specific item of choice.
EU brand, manufactured in Asia though.
Yeah for sure, and some of it is just curated OEM stuff they slap their logo on, but still the point stands. If you want manufactured in EU prices aren't gonna be the same.
Hagström viking. Hagström alvar.
But they are only an EU-brand, not actually made in EU.
Thomann's house brand Harley Benton has some good guitars. Not sure about hollowbody guitars, but I have a semihollow guitar from HB that I play quite a lot and has good build quality.
Daemoness, Blackat, Mayones, RAN
I wonder which one of these I can buy, locally, here in the US. I never looked specifically at non-US brands until now.
I looked for "m tone" and it seems to be a guy in Oregon
Skervesen guitars are amazing build quality