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My friend Michael, a highly talented full time musician, just purchased a copy guitar from the Aliexpress website - for about 10 percent of the 'real' guitar's price - he claims it feels and sounds wonderful, and just may sell his 'real' guitar now...I'm wondering if there is any experience here with the Chinese-made guitars - or is there any bad vibe around supporting the off-shore copy-cats?
Now that I'm in my sixties I find myself looking at the instruments that were influential in my early years as a player - I recently acquired an 'Eastwood' guitar that is a Mosrite copy (remember The Ventures?)- as well I have an inexpensive copy of a guitar that looks like Jerry Garcia's "Tiger"
Lately i've been looking at George Harrison's first Gretsch duo-jet, and sure enough there is a copy available from China.
It's not like (in my case) the real Gretsch company is loosing a sale - I could never afford the real one these days (planning on retiring soon!) ...plus I do have some 'real' guitars anyway -( Les Paul, Strat, Firebird, Tele )...so I'm just wondering what experience others may have had buying these kind of guitars.
Thanks,
Jim
Now that I'm in my sixties I find myself looking at the instruments that were influential in my early years as a player - I recently acquired an 'Eastwood' guitar that is a Mosrite copy (remember The Ventures?)- as well I have an inexpensive copy of a guitar that looks like Jerry Garcia's "Tiger"
Lately i've been looking at George Harrison's first Gretsch duo-jet, and sure enough there is a copy available from China.
It's not like (in my case) the real Gretsch company is loosing a sale - I could never afford the real one these days (planning on retiring soon!) ...plus I do have some 'real' guitars anyway -( Les Paul, Strat, Firebird, Tele )...so I'm just wondering what experience others may have had buying these kind of guitars.
Thanks,
Jim