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    6 days ago

    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

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    7 days ago

    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!

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    5 days ago

    Manson guitars are from the UK.

    Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they’re not European, but at least they’re not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.

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    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.

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        I’ve played one once in a shop and it was amazing. If I can ever afford to drop that much money on an instrument I will be going right to them

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

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

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        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.

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          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.

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    My electric guitar is a Swedish Hagström Ultra Swede, I always wanted to get a genuine Gibson Les Paul but never could afford one. So I ended up with the much cheaper Ultra Swede, have been playing with it for two years and I’m more than happy with it.

    I also have two Finnish Landola acoustic guitars from the late 60’s - early 70’s, a 12-string “Colorado” model and a 6-string “Buffalo”. Both sound excellent, especially after I made new bone nuts and saddles to replace the original plastic ones.

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      Excellent guitars. Made in china, but still very good.

      Speaking of excellent chinese guitars; Eastman acoustics are incredibly good.

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        Apparently they have brought back some of their production to sweden as of 2020 but don’t ask me which models, because i don’t know. I know production moved to china 2006 after not having any at all since the 80ies and they probably still make a lot of their new guitars there. Ive only played on a 70-80ies something superswede.