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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa
Why just the EU market - if you could bring them in around US $750 retail (shouldn't be hard, considering the Kingpin electric sells for $699 over here) and market them through a limited network of specialty dealers whose clientele could appreciate and understand what they're all about, IMO you'd need a run of 250 or so to start - the closest current competition is the Loar LH-600 at around $300 more (which, in spite of its all-carved construction, has a history of structural issues), and you'd be tapping into the visuals of the Eastman 600-Series archtops...
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Ahhhh!!!!!! STOP!!!
I've just been sitting here with a calculator in my hands pondering what up-front investment it would need to do a 250 guitar run, how I could handle US sales etc. etc. I need to put this one to bed and get on with my day job, which is being retired!!! (although I do seem to have inadvertently ended up with a very complex job as the caretaker MD for a cancer charity - not quite sure how they sneaked that one past me!).
