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Re: Model 6 Chavel by Jackson
My business partner used to sell Toyotas. His advice: if you are intersted in buying a Toyota, and want a trouble-free vehicle that's built to last, do not buy one built in the USA. Do your homework & find out which models are built here, then avoid them. Buy Japanese, simple as that. With regard to guitars, this has been discussed here many times, but here is my opinion, fwiw. There are people in every corner of the globe with the talent, intelligence, pride in workmanship, and capability to produce top-notch merchandise. However, when a US guitar company sends production overseas, the object of the exercise is always to cut costs and to produce huge numbers. They are looking for the cheapest possible labor, not the best & brightest employees that that particular country has to offer. They are producing these guitars with lower quality hardware & materials. For these reasons, the guitars are going to be inferior to the US-made guitars from that company. Usually extremely inferior. Somehow, for a few years from '86 to the early '90s, Jackson/Charvel managed to buck this trend. It made good economic sense for a brief time to hire & train some excellent people and provide them with good hardware & materials. Like all good things, it didn't last forever.
My business partner used to sell Toyotas. His advice: if you are intersted in buying a Toyota, and want a trouble-free vehicle that's built to last, do not buy one built in the USA. Do your homework & find out which models are built here, then avoid them. Buy Japanese, simple as that. With regard to guitars, this has been discussed here many times, but here is my opinion, fwiw. There are people in every corner of the globe with the talent, intelligence, pride in workmanship, and capability to produce top-notch merchandise. However, when a US guitar company sends production overseas, the object of the exercise is always to cut costs and to produce huge numbers. They are looking for the cheapest possible labor, not the best & brightest employees that that particular country has to offer. They are producing these guitars with lower quality hardware & materials. For these reasons, the guitars are going to be inferior to the US-made guitars from that company. Usually extremely inferior. Somehow, for a few years from '86 to the early '90s, Jackson/Charvel managed to buck this trend. It made good economic sense for a brief time to hire & train some excellent people and provide them with good hardware & materials. Like all good things, it didn't last forever.
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