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[โ€“] TentinQuarantino@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Also consider your local luthiers and other manufacturers, they're often in dire need of support, yet get none because their guitars don't have "Fender" or "Gibson" written on them.

[โ€“] lysol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A bit pricy, bit there is Strandberg Guitars which AFAIK are made in Uppsala, Sweden.

[โ€“] paralogous@lemmy.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most of the current production is made in Indonesia, some special editions in Japan. Still, great guitars.

[โ€“] lysol@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, did not know this! Thanks. I tried to look through their website to find info on where the guitars are made nowadays but couldn't really find anything.

[โ€“] paralogous@lemmy.org 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, it's very difficult to find out where a guitar was manufactured. Often you have to go to a music store website and try to find a picture of the back of the headstock (or nub for Strandbergs). Most the time it's written there.

[โ€“] sober_monk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this community because I'm learning a lot about where stuff is from. Case in point, I was going to suggest Ibanez and found out it's Japanese lol

[โ€“] PostaL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Well, at least it's not from murica

[โ€“] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.

[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is exactly what we should do for now - post every single post both here on Lemmy and on Reddit and we should constantly remind people that they have to switch to Lemmy!

[โ€“] nodiratime@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What is reddit?

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

The Reddit mods seems to not like Lemmy a lot: https://lemm.ee/post/57901024?scrollToComments=true

[โ€“] alister667@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lowden Guitars, high quality acoustics, made in Northern Ireland. https://lowdenguitars.com/

[โ€“] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Taran makes some really amazing acoustics too.