After all this years I have to find out that it actually is an intrument.
Mayones certainly makes my sandwich sing.
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
Well, at least it’s not from murica
I’ve played an Ibanez SR 300 bass on stage for years. I tried many others but nothing feels or sounds as good to me.
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!
The Reddit mods seems to not like Lemmy a lot: https://lemm.ee/post/57901024?scrollToComments=true
They enjoy seeing their work get fucked over. That sounds like a cuck to me.
What is reddit?
They will ban you for it now.
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.
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.
I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.
Strandberg
I’ve always wanted one of their 7 or 8 strings with the fanned frets but that price tag is steep
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
So mayones IS an instrument! Someone tell Squidward!
An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
A bit pricy, bit there is Strandberg Guitars which AFAIK are made in Uppsala, Sweden.
Most of the current production is made in Indonesia, some special editions in Japan. Still, great guitars.
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.
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.
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.
Japanese, but tokai make great guitars.
Yamaha for beginners!
Solar.
Yes, they also have “Made in Europe”
Hagström is great, especially the Super Swede is on my favourite list.
Playing a ultra swede for years, no complaints :)
Excellent guitars. Made in china, but still very good.
Speaking of excellent chinese guitars; Eastman acoustics are incredibly good.
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.
My last two guitars were Ormsby’s, from Australia.
