I see some comments that range from troll-ish to pretty much just troll. Saying that building guitars using machines means they shouldn't be called 'hand made'. I can surely see where that comes from. I'm sure that the very first time a builder put his slab of spruce or maple through a band saw to split a bookmatch, there was someone crying about how he'd sold out. Guess what; tools are what make the job possible. Granted, CNC is not a 'hand' tool. And it is taking over on a job that could well be done by hand. But (again) guess what; it does it with exact precision and repeatability that can NOT be matched by hand work. Reference Gibson PAF (not Paf) pickups from the 50's; their tone and output ranged all over because the winders were controlled by hand. Hardly anything that could be called precision. I see it that, using machines to get the rough outline and basic shape is just removing the bulk that, by hand, is just wasted time. The final shaping, finishing and setup are done by hand - that's good enough for me. Now; for those folks that have no idea how business works, $10,000 for that guitar is not the least bit out of line. No, the materials, prime quality that they all were, weren't anywhere near that valuable - dollar-wise. And if that were all that there was, then maybe 3G's would have been plenty. But - that's - not - how - running - a - business - works! And it's not just overhead added either. Nor is it just adding in some profit for the shop and a couple of bucks for the pocket. People need to make a certain amount of money each year to live. If you have a family, kids, school, insurance, etc., that's a fixed number that must be met. A small shop needs to bring in enough to cover all that + some for reinvestment, loan payments, etc. A small shop can't (and shouldn't try to) produce huge numbers of guitars to spread those dollar numbers out over many sales. That would certainly bring the price per unit down. But then, there is more than just the intrinsic value. There's the value of so much time and dedication paid to on YOUR instrument. Diligent focus on the purpose of making you happy. That takes talent ($$$). It takes skill/experience ($$$). It takes creative artistry ($$$). All of those things are expressly more valuable than the cost of the wood and electronics. So; what is it that sets the price of these instruments? The guy/gal who is happy to pay that price to get the custom CRAFTED instrument they desire made just for them. The amount the customer is willing to pay, in accord with the amount the builder is willing to accept - THAT is the price. You don't want to pay it. That's perfectly fine. These guitars are not for you. Be happy with your Chibson and play your heart out. But so long as there are people who can appreciate the value of the skill, creativity and love of guitars of real luthiers, their guitars are worth every penny. 🙂
Its a custom made tool for an Artist, not to mention it borders on Artwork. $10K, not out of line at all. I'll bet Dylan is fine with the price, an investment like that will last him his lifetime and become a heirloom to pass down to his children. I wonder if Dylan has ever considered adoption, I can move amplifiers and fix cables.............
@@user-pl7lr5dn8q by your logic, if they used a chainsaw or truck harvest the wood, or a gas-powered mill to size the boards, then they better by-golly not call the guitar 'hand made'. The cnc just gets the unnecessary wood out of the way so the craftsmen/women can get started with crafting sooner.
Guys, I seriously can’t thank you enough for crafting this work of art of an instrument for me (and David Edwards for the pickup/wiring and surprise amp!!). It absolutely rings, plays amazing and is one of the most beautiful guitars I’ve had the privilege to play. I’m honored to call you guys my friends, and can’t wait to make lots and lots of music with this thing!!
What a fantastic build!! Such a beauty and of course you just make it sing! Looking forward to hopefully seeing a video about your newest acquisition over on your channel??🤞🙏 I'll be keeping an eye out for it 👀
Just got home frome work. Where I work as a head chef, angry as hell, and even more tired from running the kitchen. Found this lovely video and now I'm at peace with a smile on my face again. Thank you guys! Litterally made my dag. Cheers from Sweden
Insanely awesome build and work as always! One of my favorite guitar building channels for sure. Also that slide playing. DAMN! Gotta follow him now too. Double wammy of good content
I built an AvidCNC back before they changed their name. It has allowed me to create so many complex shapes in my guitars and really expand my creativity. CNC is challenging in many ways. No matter how pure you are there is always a more pure purist.
It's very cool that you were enabled and supported in your passion to grow and produce on an individual level. That is teamwork enabling individual growth and a beautiful instrument as a result. Bravo!
I had a luthier build a 60 jr for me. when he had one in for a repair he took measurements. All old growth wood. Brazilian rosewood board, Brazilian mahogany neck, formosa mahogany body. It slays any modern ginson I've owned. And yes, it says gibson on the headstock. Jr's sound amazing. Dylan will ove that thing !!
Wow, @dylanadamsguitar !!!! You sounded like Guthrie Govan with a slide here at the end! Which is a compliment for both, you and the guitar! Amazing! Love(d) it! Keep it coming!
I love the channel and your work, and I love watching almost anything that centers around craftsmanship and building. That said I don’t think you guys would sell this for $10,000, it’d be more in line with your tele’s, but I guess TH-cam demands crazy titles. If this is a $10,000 guitar your acoustics should cost $160,000….
Lovely guitar. Matt is a consummate professional. Nice share, guys! Dylan is a brilliant guitar player. I'm sure he'll make some wonderful music with this thing.
Looks nice. I built a 2 x P90 version similar to that not too long ago. I used to be a fan of fancy wood tops but have changed my mind. Cheap guitars with a veneer top often look better than expensive guitars with a solid top. Over time, my mind started associating flame maple tops with cheap guitars!
I have a love/hate relationship with finish work. I’ve found that there are no shortcuts in the learning process. But when all the hard work comes together, there’s nothing that can match that feeling.
Anyone wanting to know the specs on the pickup: sand cast A2 long, 7.7k ohms using plain enamel 42awg wire. The rest of the parts are all vintage spec, CAB bobbins, etc….
Great homage to a classic guitar, love the colour you chose on the burst. Also I'd never listened to Dylan before but a subscriber now, such a tasteful player looking forward to hearing more. The vintage look is hard to replicate, but you make it work and that binding style is perfect for the guitar.
Nice job, it came out really nice. I like the finish a lot and the color match on the repair looks perfect from here. I've done finish work, I know how precise you have to be.
Great video. I bet the people who complain about cncs also ride a horse and would never drive an F150 to a mill to pick up lumber milled by an electric saw or planer.
As a luthier i have mixed feelings about the comments i read. I think i would like to have the tools you own and be able to make guitars like this and ask this kind of price. Well done.
That's a cool switching feature to have on a relatively simple guitar. Allows you to use the volume pot in different ways. Without a treble bleed, the volume will behave more like a tone control when in modern mode. Then in the 50's wiring switch position, you'll be able to roll the volume back without much high frequency loss. This should be a feature on every guitar in my opinion. Then everyone would be happy. Right? The clear control cavity cover is a nice touch. Shows off the precision wiring job to all the freaks like us, who care what's going on in there. I'm not sure what more can be done to make it better? It's a masterpiece!
This is a workhorse! A damn fine workhorse. Built for a workhorse of a musician. Thanks for the insightful video. I think we've (luthiers) all made the mistake of sanding through finish. I did once too.. Never again!
As a builder of mainly headless guitars I had to chuckle a bit when you called 7lbs light. But for an LP style guitar the achieved 6.3lbs is pretty good.
I feel pretty good that my Epiphnoe LP Special I P90 is 6.8 lbs, slab (no chamber, Rosewood & Mahogany). Interesting direction for the humbucker diverting from a dog ear P90 for a Junior. Wouldn't mind hearing it as a vintage vs modern demo for that switch wiring. I think that's why I went with a Special vs the Junior. Go ahead & get the beck pickup, since there's a switch involved.
Matt, level-sanding through the finish is just the price you sometimes pay for achieving a really thin finish. You could eliminate the risk altogether by spraying it on like car paint, but that's not who you are.
For production work, yeah CNCs are cool. For custom one-off guitars, I don't think they belong, especially when it's a design you can download off the internet and alter it on a computer while the machine does the work. I understand that some human labor is required, but at that point, it'd be easier to get a model second hand and have it customized.
Love this video, but I wonder why you guys don't carve your necks on that nice CNC....whole nuther think but very doable. I glue the blank onto a pine board and then saw the neck off the board on the bandsaw. Had to make a jig to put the trussrod groove in. Fusion 360 works great.
Many years ago one of my hardwood suppliers told me that his father used to sell maple to one of the television manufacturers (they used to make televisions in North America) to make the cabinets (TV's used to have wooden cabinets) He had to cull all of the curly maple out of the lift of lumber because it would stick out visually and not match the plain maple. It was considered flawed.
Gorgeous guitar for sure. But honestly, 10000.- ? It's a simple guitar mostly built with CNC. Not even Gibson, famous for utterly overpriced guitars, would charge this kinda money for a simple flat top junior guitar with only one pickup and simple electronics. If it was at least a hand carved top.
@@GemmatheCat I do understand that a hand built guitar will be quite expensive. But given that you can get a Gibson L5, (that actually HAS a handcarved arched top and generally involves MUCH MORE highly specialised luthier work,) for under 10.000.- I do find two slabs of wood glued together and CNC routed, simple electronics, that don't even have to be fished through an f-hole, one single pickup, that keeps the electronics on a beginner level, with a pretty standard finish, are by far not on the same level with the aforementioned L5, that involves real luthierie and skill, a lot of intricate steps and a lot of experience. Carving a neck isn't that tricky either. The amount of work that goes into a partly CNC made flat-top junior guitar never justifies this kind of money, and I believe they are just pricing it so high, because they have a reputation for highest end guitars with highest end prices. Not even Gibson themselves would be so bold. If you want to buy a driftwood acoustic with all the intricate inlays and stuff, be prepared to pay that much and even more. But for a simple junior style single cut guitar with some driftwood fairy dust?
I'm thinking the price tag is just click bait TBH... however if driftwood genuinely believes this is worth 10k then they've been huffing to many fumes in that workshop.
Past a certain price point you pay a name, a busy logbook. You can find a fine handmade guitar for 2k, but you wont have the reputation, the resale value, etc... Its the same with any other art. you can take a bet an buy an early piece from someone unknown and beat the rest f the crowd to it. but driftwood charges that because they can, not just because they want or feel like it. Don't be jealous, its more than just high end guitar making, its also high end marketing...
@@Stoicbushman No jealousy here :) I agree about what your saying. Except, Driftwood builds highest end acoustic guitars, but their electrics are just simple axes and nowhere near high end. They don't even put a lot of highly specialised manual labour into these (unlike with their acoustics). If they did, I wouldn't complain. They charge what they charge, because they can, but I not sure if these guitars have the resale value you're talking about. Not too many people know Driftwood, and the average buyer would go on Reverb and just see an overpriced Junior or Tele. Anyway, I'd think a high level of automation should make things cheaper, not more expensive. Almost everything at Driftwood comes out of the CNC, which isn't a bad thing per se, as it delivers more consistency, but it's also less manual labour and less waste. They could even rough shape the neck on the CNC if they wanted to, so that would leave them with sanding and glueing the parts together, as far as manual labour goes. At this point we're basically talking kit-guitar.
@@Patbwoy When your circle of players and friends are customers of this price range, you get the resale. To be fair people in that bracket don't really care about it too much. I have seen both end of the spectrum, people who live by spending 10000$ a day without blinking and people who will live on 3-4$/ day. everyone plays guitar and everyone froth on guitars they can't afford. For the most part I imagine that on the poor side of the American players spectrum, none can conceive of someone being poorer because from a Us perspective the world ends beyond the sea or the ocean. Westerners buying guitars on Temu for a $100 dollars claiming they can make them as good as a $1000 guitar. Africans, Indians get new " handmade" guitars for $10-12 tweeking them and making them sound as good as $100 guitar. That's about the same ratio gap there between a 2K guitar and 10K guitar. IT all comes down to marketing and perception of quality, status, sacrifice worth the gain from the buyers perspective. You're just buying utilitarian art, how you read the market will dictate your price
I see some comments that range from troll-ish to pretty much just troll.
Saying that building guitars using machines means they shouldn't be called 'hand made'. I can surely see where that comes from.
I'm sure that the very first time a builder put his slab of spruce or maple through a band saw to split a bookmatch, there was someone crying about how he'd sold out. Guess what; tools are what make the job possible. Granted, CNC is not a 'hand' tool. And it is taking over on a job that could well be done by hand. But (again) guess what; it does it with exact precision and repeatability that can NOT be matched by hand work.
Reference Gibson PAF (not Paf) pickups from the 50's; their tone and output ranged all over because the winders were controlled by hand. Hardly anything that could be called precision.
I see it that, using machines to get the rough outline and basic shape is just removing the bulk that, by hand, is just wasted time. The final shaping, finishing and setup are done by hand - that's good enough for me.
Now; for those folks that have no idea how business works, $10,000 for that guitar is not the least bit out of line. No, the materials, prime quality that they all were, weren't anywhere near that valuable - dollar-wise. And if that were all that there was, then maybe 3G's would have been plenty.
But - that's - not - how - running - a - business - works!
And it's not just overhead added either. Nor is it just adding in some profit for the shop and a couple of bucks for the pocket.
People need to make a certain amount of money each year to live. If you have a family, kids, school, insurance, etc., that's a fixed number that must be met.
A small shop needs to bring in enough to cover all that + some for reinvestment, loan payments, etc. A small shop can't (and shouldn't try to) produce huge numbers of guitars to spread those dollar numbers out over many sales. That would certainly bring the price per unit down.
But then, there is more than just the intrinsic value. There's the value of so much time and dedication paid to on YOUR instrument. Diligent focus on the purpose of making you happy. That takes talent ($$$). It takes skill/experience ($$$). It takes creative artistry ($$$). All of those things are expressly more valuable than the cost of the wood and electronics. So; what is it that sets the price of these instruments?
The guy/gal who is happy to pay that price to get the custom CRAFTED instrument they desire made just for them. The amount the customer is willing to pay, in accord with the amount the builder is willing to accept - THAT is the price.
You don't want to pay it. That's perfectly fine. These guitars are not for you. Be happy with your Chibson and play your heart out.
But so long as there are people who can appreciate the value of the skill, creativity and love of guitars of real luthiers, their guitars are worth every penny. 🙂
Hear hear! Perfectly said sir.
still cnc so not 100% handmade
Its a custom made tool for an Artist, not to mention it borders on Artwork.
$10K, not out of line at all.
I'll bet Dylan is fine with the price, an investment like that will last him his lifetime and become a heirloom to pass down to his children.
I wonder if Dylan has ever considered adoption, I can move amplifiers and fix cables.............
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still so not important at all to what makes 'hand-made' a real thing.
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by your logic, if they used a chainsaw or truck harvest the wood, or a gas-powered mill to size the boards, then they better by-golly not call the guitar 'hand made'.
The cnc just gets the unnecessary wood out of the way so the craftsmen/women can get started with crafting sooner.
Guys, I seriously can’t thank you enough for crafting this work of art of an instrument for me (and David Edwards for the pickup/wiring and surprise amp!!). It absolutely rings, plays amazing and is one of the most beautiful guitars I’ve had the privilege to play. I’m honored to call you guys my friends, and can’t wait to make lots and lots of music with this thing!!
Dylan! If the music you make on that thing sounds anything like the sample here, boy howdy!!
Sound brings back Jeff Beck vibes
Was sick watching you rock out on the boys and your creation. Very cool!!!
Thank you !
What a fantastic build!! Such a beauty and of course you just make it sing! Looking forward to hopefully seeing a video about your newest acquisition over on your channel??🤞🙏 I'll be keeping an eye out for it 👀
I love this channel so much.
@@RhettShull want an amplifier too 😇
Just got home frome work. Where I work as a head chef, angry as hell, and even more tired from running the kitchen. Found this lovely video and now I'm at peace with a smile on my face again. Thank you guys! Litterally made my dag. Cheers from Sweden
That is the perfect guitar for Dylan. He is a machine and that axe looks like something he SHOULD play. Beautiful!
The scrapped binding with that burst looks so classy! Awesome job guys! 👍🏽
Insanely awesome build and work as always! One of my favorite guitar building channels for sure. Also that slide playing. DAMN! Gotta follow him now too. Double wammy of good content
I built an AvidCNC back before they changed their name. It has allowed me to create so many complex shapes in my guitars and really expand my creativity. CNC is challenging in many ways. No matter how pure you are there is always a more pure purist.
by far the most refreshing take to date on a classic. It's a challenge to remain true to the vibe and bring it to 21st century quality. Tip Top guys !
It's very cool that you were enabled and supported in your passion to grow and produce on an individual level. That is teamwork enabling individual growth and a beautiful instrument as a result. Bravo!
That guitar is seriously beautiful. Nice work!
I had a luthier build a 60 jr for me. when he had one in for a repair he took measurements. All old growth wood. Brazilian rosewood board, Brazilian mahogany neck, formosa mahogany body. It slays any modern ginson I've owned. And yes, it says gibson on the headstock. Jr's sound amazing. Dylan will ove that thing !!
I bet it was way better than ANY ginson ever made; modern or otherwise. ;-)
Thanks for letting us in on this beautiful craftman journey of yours. You guys rock!
The Dan Erlewine icon is the greatest addition to any shop I have ever seen!!!!!!!!
Your videos are my nightly calm down session after a hard day of work. Thank you.
Great to see you at the helm of a project, Matt! Great job!
Wow, @dylanadamsguitar !!!! You sounded like Guthrie Govan with a slide here at the end! Which is a compliment for both, you and the guitar! Amazing! Love(d) it! Keep it coming!
I love the channel and your work, and I love watching almost anything that centers around craftsmanship and building. That said I don’t think you guys would sell this for $10,000, it’d be more in line with your tele’s, but I guess TH-cam demands crazy titles. If this is a $10,000 guitar your acoustics should cost $160,000….
There’s a TON of Brazilian Rosewood used in this build. Hence the high price.
Great work even with mistake it's beautiful
That looks incredible!
Killer vid, as always...and I'm stoked that Matt is still rocking the 80s cop 'stache. You guys are the best, love everything about this channel.
Lovely guitar. Matt is a consummate professional. Nice share, guys! Dylan is a brilliant guitar player. I'm sure he'll make some wonderful music with this thing.
Great video! Love the storytelling, the finished product, and the lessons along the way.
Wonderful story guys! I love watching masters create art ❤
Fantastic guitar and playing!! Thank You
Looks nice. I built a 2 x P90 version similar to that not too long ago. I used to be a fan of fancy wood tops but have changed my mind. Cheap guitars with a veneer top often look better than expensive guitars with a solid top. Over time, my mind started associating flame maple tops with cheap guitars!
Those who say they’ve never sanded through a finish have never applied one.
Good point. Cars and guitars and motorcycles for me.
I have a love/hate relationship with finish work. I’ve found that there are no shortcuts in the learning process. But when all the hard work comes together, there’s nothing that can match that feeling.
100000%
Great work on both the guitar and the video. That Brazilian guard is so classy.
Anyone wanting to know the specs on the pickup: sand cast A2 long, 7.7k ohms using plain enamel 42awg wire. The rest of the parts are all vintage spec, CAB bobbins, etc….
It never occurred to me that you were not well over 100000 subs. Yus guys rock🎉
Great homage to a classic guitar, love the colour you chose on the burst. Also I'd never listened to Dylan before but a subscriber now, such a tasteful player looking forward to hearing more. The vintage look is hard to replicate, but you make it work and that binding style is perfect for the guitar.
Love the commentary Matt!
I really enjoyed this build video - perhaps Matt should be the front man more often. 🙂Well done guys.
Nice job, it came out really nice. I like the finish a lot and the color match on the repair looks perfect from here. I've done finish work, I know how precise you have to be.
Best video you guys ever made!
AWESOME BUILD!!
i need a 30" sclae baritone 7 string version omg
WTG Matt!!!
W O W ... ! That's even better than my PartsCaster :-))) Kudos guys !
Great video.
I bet the people who complain about cncs also ride a horse and would never drive an F150 to a mill to pick up lumber milled by an electric saw or planer.
Excellent work, loved it!
One of the best burst colors ever!!
As a luthier i have mixed feelings about the comments i read. I think i would like to have the tools you own and be able to make guitars like this and ask this kind of price. Well done.
16:10 could you…
Run the sander a few laps around the edge to bring that sunburst look as an edge design? Could look awesome.
That's a cool switching feature to have on a relatively simple guitar. Allows you to use the volume pot in different ways. Without a treble bleed, the volume will behave more like a tone control when in modern mode. Then in the 50's wiring switch position, you'll be able to roll the volume back without much high frequency loss. This should be a feature on every guitar in my opinion. Then everyone would be happy. Right?
The clear control cavity cover is a nice touch. Shows off the precision wiring job to all the freaks like us, who care what's going on in there. I'm not sure what more can be done to make it better? It's a masterpiece!
love everything about this except for a non adjustable bridge. Well done!
Absolutely gorgeous! The guitar looks pretty nice, too 😉😈
Sounds and looks good rockin' the single pickup custom guitar.
Could use at least an hour of Dylan playing that guitar. Such an amazing player.
This is a workhorse! A damn fine workhorse. Built for a workhorse of a musician. Thanks for the insightful video. I think we've (luthiers) all made the mistake of sanding through finish. I did once too.. Never again!
It was a perfectly good story and video without trying to amp up the drama.
Man, I super don't understand electric guitar pricing
lol love your guys dynamic. Great video, also!
That’s a beautiful axe, great build guys.
As a builder of mainly headless guitars I had to chuckle a bit when you called 7lbs light. But for an LP style guitar the achieved 6.3lbs is pretty good.
Beautiful guitar, great video.
Absolutely gorgeous!
Well ! You have a new sub here from Quebec ! 😉
Brilliant as always 👍🏻🇬🇧
I feel pretty good that my Epiphnoe LP Special I P90 is 6.8 lbs, slab (no chamber, Rosewood & Mahogany). Interesting direction for the humbucker diverting from a dog ear P90 for a Junior. Wouldn't mind hearing it as a vintage vs modern demo for that switch wiring. I think that's why I went with a Special vs the Junior. Go ahead & get the beck pickup, since there's a switch involved.
Unbelievably beautiful guitar. Killer player too
Dylan is a Badass . Thks rhett shull,
WOW! Cool guitar and man...hell of a player!!
Very interesting video. Thanks for posting. CnC it Dynamite!
Great video. This guy Matt is great narrator. Ok. Chriss too.
Flashbacks of the stew Mac paint job on the roof when you sanded thru the blue finish hahahaha
That is a beautiful guitar!
Beautiful guitar!! But Dylan playing it is an even greater joy to watch.
Awesome guitar and video!
People criticize Rickenbacker for using cnc machines too.
Love the Carbon Fiber use in the neck.
I wish everyone did that.
Yep, dude can play and that is an amazing guitar. Well done.
Great guitar! Anyone that gives you guff for using modern machinery is simply jealous of your success. Tell ‘em to bag it!
Did he spec the humbucker that close to the bridge?
Beautiful!
Matt, level-sanding through the finish is just the price you sometimes pay for achieving a really thin finish. You could eliminate the risk altogether by spraying it on like car paint, but that's not who you are.
Always been a fan of the junior.
For production work, yeah CNCs are cool. For custom one-off guitars, I don't think they belong, especially when it's a design you can download off the internet and alter it on a computer while the machine does the work. I understand that some human labor is required, but at that point, it'd be easier to get a model second hand and have it customized.
Did someone say Dylan was a badass . Yes sir !
13:45 Is the the Laura furniture office chair? I have the same one! It's awesome😄
15:20 MA and Dad always said DON'T PLAY BALL in the house.
So, Matt, since you are making an electric build here, is it ok to ask what happened to the tube amp build?
😂😂😂 I actually finished it, I swear! The video is maybe a year or so back on our channel :)
What wrap-around bridge is this? I'm looking at using one on a build and like the look of this one!
He’s playing awethentic. No copyright there 😅
What CNC machine are you guys using?
What did you call that fixture for jointing the top? (from LMI) I might need to figure out how to build one of those!
Never quite undrstood sawing the wood in half and then turning around and gluing them back together.
If you make the body really light how do you avoid neck dive? 🤔
Awesome guitar, loved watching its birth!
I believe using ANY metal tools in guitar building is cheating (Let alone a CNC) I only use flint and deer antler hand tools when building my guitars
You’re a true artist! Very inspiring.
@DriftwoodGuitars 😂
Flint and deer Antler? Cant really call it handbuilt then can you😂
@karelenhenkie666 excellent reply 😂
Love this video, but I wonder why you guys don't carve your necks on that nice CNC....whole nuther think but very doable.
I glue the blank onto a pine board and then saw the neck off the board on the bandsaw. Had to make a jig to put the trussrod groove in. Fusion 360 works great.
“El Pablo Pequeño”
Why is the bridge so close to the treble pickup??
Can i ask, why are you leveling the frets while the neck is unsupported?
Yes nothing more important than level frets. Most companies forget that step. They want you to finish their guitar.😠
Flamed, curly, or plain, they all cost the same in the 50s.
Many years ago one of my hardwood suppliers told me that his father used to sell maple to one of the television manufacturers (they used to make televisions in North America) to make the cabinets (TV's used to have wooden cabinets) He had to cull all of the curly maple out of the lift of lumber because it would stick out visually and not match the plain maple. It was considered flawed.
Gorgeous guitar for sure. But honestly, 10000.- ? It's a simple guitar mostly built with CNC. Not even Gibson, famous for utterly overpriced guitars, would charge this kinda money for a simple flat top junior guitar with only one pickup and simple electronics. If it was at least a hand carved top.
@@GemmatheCat I do understand that a hand built guitar will be quite expensive. But given that you can get a Gibson L5, (that actually HAS a handcarved arched top and generally involves MUCH MORE highly specialised luthier work,) for under 10.000.- I do find two slabs of wood glued together and CNC routed, simple electronics, that don't even have to be fished through an f-hole, one single pickup, that keeps the electronics on a beginner level, with a pretty standard finish, are by far not on the same level with the aforementioned L5, that involves real luthierie and skill, a lot of intricate steps and a lot of experience.
Carving a neck isn't that tricky either.
The amount of work that goes into a partly CNC made flat-top junior guitar never justifies this kind of money, and I believe they are just pricing it so high, because they have a reputation for highest end guitars with highest end prices. Not even Gibson themselves would be so bold.
If you want to buy a driftwood acoustic with all the intricate inlays and stuff, be prepared to pay that much and even more. But for a simple junior style single cut guitar with some driftwood fairy dust?
I'm thinking the price tag is just click bait TBH... however if driftwood genuinely believes this is worth 10k then they've been huffing to many fumes in that workshop.
Past a certain price point you pay a name, a busy logbook. You can find a fine handmade guitar for 2k, but you wont have the reputation, the resale value, etc... Its the same with any other art. you can take a bet an buy an early piece from someone unknown and beat the rest f the crowd to it. but driftwood charges that because they can, not just because they want or feel like it. Don't be jealous, its more than just high end guitar making, its also high end marketing...
@@Stoicbushman No jealousy here :) I agree about what your saying. Except, Driftwood builds highest end acoustic guitars, but their electrics are just simple axes and nowhere near high end. They don't even put a lot of highly specialised manual labour into these (unlike with their acoustics). If they did, I wouldn't complain.
They charge what they charge, because they can, but I not sure if these guitars have the resale value you're talking about. Not too many people know Driftwood, and the average buyer would go on Reverb and just see an overpriced Junior or Tele.
Anyway, I'd think a high level of automation should make things cheaper, not more expensive. Almost everything at Driftwood comes out of the CNC, which isn't a bad thing per se, as it delivers more consistency, but it's also less manual labour and less waste. They could even rough shape the neck on the CNC if they wanted to, so that would leave them with sanding and glueing the parts together, as far as manual labour goes. At this point we're basically talking kit-guitar.
@@Patbwoy When your circle of players and friends are customers of this price range, you get the resale. To be fair people in that bracket don't really care about it too much. I have seen both end of the spectrum, people who live by spending 10000$ a day without blinking and people who will live on 3-4$/ day. everyone plays guitar and everyone froth on guitars they can't afford. For the most part I imagine that on the poor side of the American players spectrum, none can conceive of someone being poorer because from a Us perspective the world ends beyond the sea or the ocean. Westerners buying guitars on Temu for a $100 dollars claiming they can make them as good as a $1000 guitar. Africans, Indians get new " handmade" guitars for $10-12 tweeking them and making them sound as good as $100 guitar. That's about the same ratio gap there between a 2K guitar and 10K guitar. IT all comes down to marketing and perception of quality, status, sacrifice worth the gain from the buyers perspective. You're just buying utilitarian art, how you read the market will dictate your price
Maybe Dylan can show us what the extra switch does.
Name it “El Pablito”
Is this the Brazilian rosewood from the old bed frame you bought years ago?
Yeah!
Thats how a sunburst should look. A lot of them are truly butt ugly.
If you’re not selling it Shivson can’t do 💩!
❤the LMI mention. Man I miss them.