Members Bbreaker Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Gibson FenderRickenbackerPRSMartin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RothnRoll Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 what about Gretsch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 FenderSquierCIJMIMG&L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Valtyr Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 ParkerRickenbacker (more for their basses)ZionPeaveyGibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alecto Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 In no particular order: - Hamer - Godin - PRS - Fender - G&L My wife would also have me add Fodera to that list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 do you mean 5 favourite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Special J Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 HamerFenderOvationGibsonKramer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkinminer Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Fender Simon & Patrick/GodinVintage ESP Schecter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slushpup96 Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 FenderMartinSeagullBenfordGibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretmonster Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Fender, Gibson, Hamer, Washburn and Breedlove are still the best bang for your buck companies IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 SammickCortYamaha.the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Fender, Gibson, Hamer, Washburn and Breedlove are still the best bang for your buck companies IMO. I am not sure Gibson is a bang for buck guitar company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 I am not sure Gibson is a bang for buck guitar company. I don't think Fender are either. In fact Fender are just as overpriced as Gibson - if you compare their guitars (that are usually just single slabs of wood), with Gibson's guitars that don't have a fancy top (eg. SG - it would be unfair to compare construction costs of a les paul with a tele for example), Gibson is actually probably in the same ball park. Fender, Am St Telecaster - around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members megaboogie Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 GibsonFenderPRSESPTom Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members straycat113 Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 FenderEBMMGibsonSuhrPRS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Snowcow Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 FenderIbanezGibsonPRSMaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 ESP (navigator seymour duncan etc)Devisor (bacchus/momose)PGM Guitars (Van Zandt, Moon)GrecoCrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BydoEmpire Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Big as in "I want a BIG collection of these:" SuhrPRSGibsonEB/Music ManMartin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmyfirst Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 FenderPRSESPGibsonIbanez In that order too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 YamahaGibson FenderGretschSmall builder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 Sadly, I don't own enough guitars to identify with 5 companies, and actually don't quite have the inclination to either. However, of the guitars I do have experience with (or lust after occasionally), it would probably be: GibsonMartinFenderGretschTaylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bbreaker Posted September 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 do you mean 5 favourite? 5 favorite big production guitar companies...............5 favorite small guitar companies :TrussartMcInturffBrian MooreTeye (want one, even though I never played one)Melancon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scott944 Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 I don't think Fender are either. In fact Fender are just as overpriced as Gibson - if you compare their guitars (that are usually just single slabs of wood), with Gibson's guitars that don't have a fancy top (eg. SG - it would be unfair to compare construction costs of a les paul with a tele for example), Gibson is actually probably in the same ball park. Fender, Am St Telecaster - around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JR13 Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 in no real orderFenderGibsonCarvinEBMMReverend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 16, 2011 Members Share Posted September 16, 2011 "There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey" - John Ruskin, from a big poster that hung on the wall of the Baskin Robbins where I worked as a teenager. Much truth. A fine quotation, which I guess is exactly the point I was trying to make: suggesting that a particular company is more over-priced than another is a bit silly, but particularly silly when it is incorrect. However, not sure John Ruskin, as great an artist as he was (well, quite good), would have ever played the electric guitar... although he was only about 47 years off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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