I lived in Europe for six years and always thought it was quite nice for guitars. I couldn't believe all of the great classical and flamenco guitar luthiers in Spain. And Ireland with Avalon, McKilroy, and Lowden. England with top notch builders, and Germany is no slouch either. And let's not forget the guitars coming out of Czechoslovakia.

I do hear the OP's point though, and do feel lucky that, comparatively, here in the U.S it's like a guitar supermarket.

And what's really great is that when we go to our local guitar store we're not shot at. Don't know where those comments are coming from.:confused:

I rest my case!!!!!!!!! ;)

I gotta disagree with you man.....there are some crazy poisonous critters out there, and I have an unreasonable phobia of stuff like that! ;) In all seriousness I would like to visit Australia some day, it seems like a pretty cool place.

It is pretty swell being in the US for guitar selection, even out in the sticks of Montana where I am I am 2 hours away from a stellar selection of the big three (especially Gibson, the store is in Bozeman) and my local has a decent selection of Martin and Taylor.

There is no such country as Czechoslovakia .... :rolleyes: