IMO you need to have been playing a decade or more and been through all the big brands and know why you need a custom guitar, because it'll be much harder to sell if you decide it's not what you want 5 years down the line. The cost of ownership of mid to high end models from the big brands is very very low as they retain almost all of their value.
Very few people marry their first girlfriend (and stay married). Even fewer keep any of their early guitars, and not just because they're normally bad. You grow as a player and need to experiment and try different things. Very few guitars are great at everything and if you buy a custom strummer for someone who ends up playing finger style it wont be the right guitar.
I once sold an electric guitar I'd built for myself and got less for it than the cost of materials, even though it was 'better' than the equivalent Gibson in any measurable way and I even preferred the tone too.
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Gibson Customshop Hummingbird (Review)
Last edited by RalphH; 12-04-2019 at 01:01 PM.
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