Custom built guitar or off the shelf?
So, the question is, custom hand-built or just off-the shelf? This is a veritable debate, and a dilemma every musicians ask themselves at some point. But I’m hoping that this article will provide direction to your thoughts and clear up your doubts. You’ll ask, how? Read on…
One thing that attracts players to a customized guitar is their aesthetics. First impressions can matter. Having your guitar custom built to your specs can make it more of an extension of your self. Besides possessing the specific specs you want our guitar shows your attitude and your style. The way it is shaped, the color, the styling, the inlays, and the headstock, every part has ‘you’ in it. It may be said that an off the shelf can be found to your liking, but could you find the one model which is completely yours? There is something personal missing in these rows upon rows of guitars in the showrooms, because, you know what? These were built for anyone and everyone who has the money to buy them. A custom guitar is for you and only YOU. When you dream up that perfect guitar, you give life to the instrument. This instrument will be with you every time you play, and through this you’ll be expressing yourself, so what can be better than if you give birth to it, know it inside out and feel it thrumming to your heartbeat? Well, nothing.
The argument coming against this is why does one buy off the shelf guitars then?
Well, you know, not everyone knows what he/she wants from a guitar. So, they prefer well-established brands, whose models are known to produce a type of music and they make do with that. And not every guitarist knows his own music from the very beginning, so to know themselves, and create their own identity in the crowd, these mass-produced guitars are tried out. You can’t expect a learner to start ordering custom guitars, because, it is simply not practical. But once you know what you play, and what you’ll be playing, it’s better to move on from these run off the mill products to one of your own.
Some will ask, custom hand-built, only for looks? But, hey, the beauty goes way deeper than that, it is not just skin deep. What happens in guitar factories is guitars are like ‘assembly-line’ produce. Set of specifications, designs, and machines and thousands of guitars are produced. But individual attention is not paid, and can’t be paid, because these companies sometimes employ hundreds of people, and they have a profit to make. What happens is that, irrespective of the wood, keeping quite a wide error margin, specifications are calculated, so that more or less the sound quality is maintained, but never or rarely the perfect sound. It’s a matter of luck and chance if every component of the guitar sounds in perfect unison, but if you’re buying yourself a custom hand-built guitar, that is more of a certainty than a chance. It’s simple; you have more chance than ever to get something which sounds like you, because it’s for you.
It’s undeniable that if you let us build a guitar for you, you will be getting exactly what you want.
When the whole process is done by hand, the involvement of a human being is what makes the difference. We order the wood, We feel it; We know what we will be building and predict how it will behave. We know what sound the guitar will be producing once it is crafted into shape. So, if you tell us what you need, we will know what wood to use, what shape options to incorporate. Every piece of wood has an identity, which will give tone and voice to the guitar made from it. Each guitar we created will be unique. All aspects of your build; the finishing, the designing, the fingerboard inlays; minute adornments, add to the overall feel of the guitar, though subtly, and impart the attitude to your personal build.
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