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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by bauerhillboy:
Just something that's occured to me before: I'll bet the cost of a fiberglass bowl is a lot less than the cost of bending wood sides, gluing-up a back, applying braces, binding and purfling to a back and sides. That's for sure true. Try pricing out a set of food storage containers made out of Rosewood.
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Perspective perhaps. Subjective or objective perhaps. But for acoustic value and investment in a quality instrument I got more than what I paid for and it will only increase in real value because the acoustics improve with the age of the wood top. Ovation Instruments offer the best of both worlds. And an Adamas guitar is absolutely unique for it's construction and acoustic signature. But, I'm an unabashed Ovation snob, been that way a long time... :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thanks again, Dave, for the ride in your station wagon. I thought it was nice, although I would have preferred a ride in your wife's car. I tried to buy my wife a more expensive car, not because she needed it, but so I could use it as leverage. She likes Hondas. I just don't understand some people. Why would you buy something useful, reliable and carefree when you could have something that costs a lot more and doesn't do the job any better? |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by bauerhillboy:
Just something that's occured to me before: I'll bet the cost of a fiberglass bowl is a lot less than the cost of bending wood sides, gluing-up a back, applying braces, binding and purfling to a back and sides.
Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. Anyone want to venture a guess on what it cost for the development of the contour bowl, the cost for reformulation of Lyrachord GS, and the injection tooling for the bowl? I'd venture to say it is huge. The underlying cost of shooting the bowls may be low, but you've got to look at the whole thing when calculating the cost to build the guitar. I'll bet the automated systems at either Taylor or Martin only costs a few bucks to do everything necessary to build the backs of a square guitar. |
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Location: SoCal | Bobbo's right in that when you buy a product, you're usually also paying for the R&D and manufacturing costs of that product. Somebody earlier mentioned that a lot of medicine,to make, doesn't cost much. But you're paying for all the costs behind that medicine as well.... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . . and massive profit margins and lots and lots of schmoozing doctors with dinners and "educational conferences" [read golf weekends} and sales kittens making 70 grand right outta college... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | The sales kittens are worth every penny though... |
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Location: Tennessee | Ovation has sales Kitties ... check them out here: Scroll down to Kittie . |
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Location: North Carolina | I see guitars as tools, not as works of art. I have a very nice Taylor 714 I almost never play on gigs. It sounds too boxy through the PA and is difficult to control. My Ovations do exactly what I want. They play well, sound good unplugged, and are an incredible value. If I ever get rid of an acoustic, It'll be the 714. |
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why are O's not as costly as ?
