My son played some last night in a music store in Indiana. He really liked this guitar:
http://bedellguitars.com/performance...coustic-guitar , though he said the others he tried didn't seem to have the same tone quality.
He was lead to believe they were handcrafted in Aspen, CO, which is partly why they caught his attention (we live in CO). I scoured their website for a bit, and I can find no mention of where the guitars are manufactured, so I bet the previous posters were correct in stating they are Chinese. Doesn't mean they aren't any good, it just detracts from the "desirability" factor for me. Will be interesting to see how the company fares in the coming years.
AM.