[Stixx]

I always go with experience. I look at a high end Japanese
guitar and I see evidence that they are some cases as good
or better built than any other jet the tone is lacking personality.

When I buy a guitar I buy such subjective criteria that the
guitar has to be much more than wood and glue and steel
put together flawllesslyl. I'd never have gone beyond a Taylor if that was the case and some asian built liscenced
guitars would satisfy. But they do not.

Americans have the formula for a traditioinal tone and feel
like no other. And even if you can get cheap copy of one
why would you want to . I always prefer the original.

Too bad the car companies couldn't have discovered waht
the gutiar companys knew. Take a good idea and keep
making it better and more efficient and we'd still be on
top of the auto manufacturing game.

We literelly gave away the technology to defeat us with
the electronics manufacturing and outsourcing nailded the
coffin shut. We have only ourselves to blame , that is the
multi natioinal companys who could care less about the homeland.

But on topic, Guitars are one item that is more than the sum of it's parts and it is not just patiotism, they have a
lagitimte content that you can't make or dublicate so easy.

It's called soul...............