long post coming up, sorry...
And legra are incredible guitars, Bob is an extremely talented individual. Theres no comparison with caparison (based, as with dave, on the one of each I've played).
wow, try saying that fast ("comparison with a caparison"). :lol:
agreed though. And i liked (just thought it was too dear for what it was) the caparison i tried.
Your opinion is duly noted, but its not going to have any bearing whatsoever on whether or not I, for one, choose to talk about custom and production guitars in the same breath. Its perfectly appropriate.
agreed.
price IS the main thing, though. that's the point. People say "such and such a guitar is great" and what's implied is "for the cash".
like, for example, a yamaha pacifica is generally considered to be a good guitar, because it's a decent guitar for not much cash. if it cost the same as a tom anderson, would people be rushing to buy them?
it's the same with everything, it's how good it is for the cash. "for the cash", whether said or not, is normally implied.
There are going to be plenty of production guitars out there which match what a custom builder can make, and if you're in a shop and find that one - Don't let anyone tell you about how shallow production guitars are compared to their custom superiors.
That's all I'm trying to say - I guess I didn't really make my point clear.
It just annoys me this whole, "You have £1500? I don't even know why you would consider anything other than a Feline/Legra/Wez etc". Yes you are going to have quality guaranteed, but if you find a production guitar which is well built then why does it matter ><
And now I stop :p
you're missing the point. I expect more than "well-built" from a £1500 guitar. Sorry.
I haven't tried every guitar out there; far from it.
However, from what I've tried, the only guitars I've tried which even come close to my legra were a tyler HSS super strat (at £2700- and that was for a bolt-on... at the time i got my quote for my legra, i could have had a similar-spec legra for about £900-£1000, with BKPs), and a nik huber at about £3500. Ridiculous prices, in other words, when you can get a custom for a lot less, which is exactly what you want.
Oh, and some patrick eggles. but they don't make those any more (at least as well as they made the 90s ones).
I'm well aware that there's a wait involved, and it's not easy to wait that long. But having done it, i'm convinced that I wouldn't spend more than about £600 on a production instrument... any more, and you're not a million miles off a custom (especially if that production instrument needs upgraded pickups etc.), and I just plain haven't tried a production instrument around the prices of a custom which comes anywhere close...
we aren't saying that a custom is as good as a well-built production line guitar. we're saying it's miles better. for less money. and it's exactly to your spec. the only downsides are the wait, and the fact that you have to buy something you haven't tried. obviously if those are enough to put you off, that's fair enough.
And I'm certainly not trying to say that Lew shouldn't have got a caparison. i didn't even mention it in this thread till someone else brought it up. he (as is everyone else) is entitled to buy what he likes. Just like we're entitled to our opinions. FWIW, as i already said, I liked the caparison I tried.
PS- mark plays mainly modern metal. I don't play only metal, but i certainly am not only playing srv licks (though i do that too). my legra was specced as a "metal" guitar. as was mark's, i think.