The bottom line is RainSong uses pretty expensive tooling to make a relatively short list of different guitars in a pretty consistent manner. We are used to even the biggest guitar factories having a small team with draw knives to make anything we want, for a price. Emerald seems to have mastered customization in CF but again it is not inexpensive.
Lately RainSong has been skipping NAMM and I suspect is hitting the upper limits of revenue and margin their product line is capable of producing. This limits what they can invest in tooling and possibly their major distributors are not looking for more options to stock anyway.
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