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I think that if there's a market for it, it will be made and sold. I don't judge anyone for buying an $8k guitar; I just haven't found one that's worth that much to me. Yet.
as a fellow luthier i can atest what makes a premium hand crafted instrument are two things: the quality of the hardware, and the man hours spent building it, and those guitars seem to pass the smell test in my opinion.
The guitar looks great and sounds great for a single neck pick up guitar. I cant comment on what its worth but i will say that as an American, when I hear something is made in Germany I automatically assume that is built with the finest components available and built to the tightest tolerances achievable. Is it worth $8K? I dont know but i know its the best guitar that the manufacturer can build. Germans take great pride in they're manufactured goods and never sell sub par products. TLDR/ made in Germany = High end & high quality
Those tops are incredible. Looks like they use the best of the best hardware too. But personally, I would rather have a custom Warwick or Carl Thompson bass for that kind of money. I feel guitars over 1500$ are just diminishing returns. My personal sweet spot for instruments is just under 1k$ although I love Keisel. I have ordered several Carvin guitars in the past and found them to be an incredible bang for the buck.
When you have intricate woodwork it becomes not only an instrument, but also an art piece and then it's understandable that it can have a high price. I can't afford 8k even for a car lol. And the 8k guitar is kind of plain for my taste, but the top of the cheaper one for 3k is so beautiful...
For the amount of time spent, as well as the material costs, the price is justified. He still needs to turn a profit on it as well, so I can see the cost of it. I really appreciated his transparency as well. I’m not a dentist, doctor, lawyer guitar collector, or a jazz pick as you put it lol. So definitely not for me. Also thumbs up just for the “cough Gibson cough bit” personal opinion is the price on this guitar is way more justified than anything from Gibson.
I've got no doubt that the guitar is worth the price, but not being a jazz guy, the guitar isn't my style. Beautiful looking and sounding guitar, though!
I'm genuinely curious about how this neck position humbucker sounds like a strat bridge pickup. That tone control genuinely needs to be backed off in order to play rock, which is not what I expected
Fourh impression: Selling a single pickup guitar, no matter how well-made or appointed, for $8000 sure does sound like a good way to pay for a trip to NAMM.
That is a really subtly beautiful guitar. Someone will buy this guitar, and thy will love it. I really prefer his other guitars. I love the designs and colors. If I had $8K to spend, I'd buy two of those. They sound great, too.
This guitar, just by looking at it - regardless of the quality, brings me absolutely 0 inspiration. What is with the guitars, especially from the "Japanese NAMM Guitars" video you made, where it feels like half of them are unfinished, lightly stained, planks of wood chopped up together. It reminds me of those early Washburn "Build-a-guitar" kits you could buy back in the early 00s for ~$400. I can't help but feel like living in Germany, with this brutalist stylized guitar probably had an impact on the design. I mean even the F-Holes are are rigid and gives me a constricted, tense energy looking at this guitar head-on. I don't think I'd pay more than $800 for this guitar if I'm being quite honest... It might sound great, it might feel great, but this would certainly be gathering dust if I sat it in my guitar rack next to a 335, or a Country Gentleman, semi-hollow guitars respectively. Big fail.
If I had a lot of money I would probably check this guitar out. Hand crafted, innovative construction and high quality parts. Time, quantity and care. Sure its worth 8k, maybe more. I am an artist, I never know what the appropriate amount of money to charge is.
Jeez so far people don't seem to agree it could be worth 8K, i'm gonna put my vote towards the "yes, i think it's worth it", if people like these kind of jazz-oriented single-neck pickup guitars and overall "one of a kind" guitars this is way better than anything gibson has to offer for 10K or even 50K because you could find them under the Epiphone brand for less than 1K anyway... Not mentioning that gibson is a big corporation and glenn fricker implied some time ago that they pay their ""master builders"" less than the average cost of life in nashville, where there factories are located... No wonder why they go over the paintjob quick and let it go as is if not lowering QC meant even less wages.... Here, the 8K will directly make the 3-months due salary for this dude and it's not huge by any means in Europe. We have an independent luthier from a little company who built a special instrument for a special occasion, he spent a lot of time on it and I guess he won't do any other guitars of this kind so it's a collectible as any gibson is (except not with a 10X less expensive Epiphone version). Gibson is trying his best to be a boutique brand but a boutique brand selling 1000 editions of some guitar priced at 5K really feels like a cashgrab, this one is an edition of 1 in the world. I'm not the public for this piece of art and I guess neither the other viewers of this channel but yes, the price is justified. It's boutique prices, what did you expect ?
Jol Dantzig (founder/luthier/designer for Hamer) charges almost twice that for his personally built and there's probably at least a two year wait; although his team only charges 3800 USD, I have no idea what their build rate would be. Not affiliated with any of these builders/companies, just like to remind people that much like Dean Zelinsky there are others from decades ago still kicking around (like Paul Rivera in the amp world - there's still no Rivera module for Synergy platform but he still makes amps). Thanks for showing some new faces for comparison - there are a lot of unknown Canadian luthiers around, as well (Ewan Dobson gets 6 and 7 string acoustics built now, very reasonable); someday I'd like to explore that a bit, myself.
I mean, high-end classical guitars cost similar, so yeah...also, 3 months of artisan labor...like...I make US$50/hour as a mechanical engineer, so that's US$12k in labor, assuming 40 hour weeks. Master-level craftsmanship + materials means that that's priced on the low end of the spectrum. Would I buy that? No, because I hate playing jazz :P
Considering parts and labour, absolutely worth the price. Would I pay that much for a tool? No. I’m a klutz, I’m not a great musician and I don’t think most people have need for this level of quality. I’m glad this level of quality exists, though.
That guitar is very much a matter of taste and preference. Definitely not for me. I hate the weird hexagonal f-holes, and the stubby headstock. Don’t care at all for the fret markers either. If it’s just the thing for you, and you have $8k to drop on a guitar that will have a very minimal resale audience, go ahead and get one. But I would think that there are too many (better) options in this price range (e.g. the Collings Julian Lage signature model) for this model to have anything but a tiny group of players.
It's a beautiful guitar but I find it hard to say that had I been the one to build it I would feel good selling it at that price. I'd be worried there isn't anyone out there who ever would buy it, it seems more like a guitar builder's guitar almost. Amazing instrument nonetheless, would love to play it.
It all boils down to wether you appreciate the craftsmanship and customization put into a custom shop guitar or not and if you have the necessary funds to spend. There is nothing wrong with playing mass produced import guitars, just as there is nothing wrong with spending a ton of money on a custom instrument built to perfection. As long as you can financially afford it, that is. From my experience, I pick up my expensive guitars way more often to play and practice - just because they inspire me, they make me happy to play and ogle them. :)
Counting the hours spent, it's probably worth more than 8k. However I wouldn't buy it since it would be no use for me. So it's not worth 8k for me since I'm a metal guitarist. To someone else 8k might be a cheap price for that. It's all about perspective.
How many hours, would have been the better question. I build guitars outside of my job, and I can tell you, using primarily light power tools and no CNC, I can cover a lot of ground on a build in 8-10 hours. A lot of the time spent "building" a guitar is waiting, 1) for good finishing conditions. The cool or cold damp weather (if you don't have an environmentally controlled spray booth) is going to cause issues with curing, and 2) once the right conditions exist and you can spray the guitar, the next wait is to allow the finish to properly cure, which can take two weeks sometimes.
@peachmelba1000 I think in this case it would be fair to understand exactly how he built this specific guitar. I think everything you said has merit. I also think there's a big difference in building an electric over an acoustic for the multitude of obvious reasons. This guitar seems to be a hollow body so somewhere in between I can only presume. People pay this kind of money for Gibsons and Martin's everyday. I wouldn't pay these numbers for any guitar except a hand built *to my specs* acoustic.
@@younkinjames8571 For the right acoustic guitar, I agree. In the most rarified part of that market, those guitars are art and engineering at the highest level. Electric guitars really only require precision, in that the jointery and hardware mounting positions need to be clean and accurately laid out. The player, the pickups, and the output technology employed do all the heavy lifting in terms of tone. If I had to guess, I would say the top is a single piece, hand carved, and the body probably has a thru-center block with hollow wings. Carving the top is time consuming, but...there are degrees of "done" with that kind of feature, if you take my meaning. On really high end electric acoustic jazz guitars, the top is not only carved but tuned and thicknessed to an obsessive degree. It can make or break the guitar. Keep in mind that on guitars like that, the pickup is only used under certain conditions, so the instrument has to have its own voice. A carved top semi-hollow electric guitar doesn't necessitate the same treatment. For all anyone knows, the inside top of the Fuji could have been thicknessed to within a much wider spec and then hit with 100 grit paper prior to gluing. It can be that loose. Yeah, the outside looks like satin, obviously, but it does nothing for the amplified tone. It's just sculpture.
Yes, but I certainly wouldn't buy one. For a multitude of reasons: I live in the USA and importing one of these would be a nightmare, I don't really like single pickup guitars, I don't like hollow bodies, I'm not a fan of the way it looks, oh, and I don't have 8 thousand dollars. But for anyone who can afford one and wants something like that, it's worth it.
im sure those guitars are quality ..... but they do not justify their price in the slightest. is that 8 grand guitar twice as good as the 4 grand one .... no, is it even 10 percent better .... i doubt it. is it twice as good as a 2 grand guitar ..... i still very much doubt it. lets be honest people that purchase guitars like this do so just so they can tell their friends about how they have the best of the best .... whereas anyone actually playing to a high standard probably isnt dick measuring who has the most expensive tuners.
This isn't about "dick measuring", nor is it about how "good" the guitar is anymore, it's about high-end craftsmanship. If you'd put three months into nothing but a single project, how much would you like to be paid for it?
@sixstringtv1 You should asked how many hours. It takes me two to three months to build my guitars, too, but that's 12 Saturdays when I'm off from my day job. Sometimes I might only get to put in 2 or 3 hours on one of those days. All tolled however, most of my guitars have taken less than 40 cumulative hours to construct, start to finish. I don't count waiting for the finish to cure fyi. That takes no effort. The hardware on the Fuji is pure lawyer/doctor bait. You know, I know it, he knows it. Most tuners over $100 (or Euros) are basically all equally good.
@@sixstringtv1 I meant that the fret buzz sounds less like traditional fret buzz (being frets in front knocking into the string) and more like it’s due to the ways the frets are cut. It’s very interesting!
The price is ridiculous, but the player and the setup are not ideal for that instrument. There is either not enough relief in the neck or the action is decked down too low. Also, the player isn't taking advantage of the tone pot and capacitor the builder spoke of. I believe the idea is the pickup is voiced really sharp (it may in fact be a bridge pickup used in the neck position), and tone and cap are intended to provide a gradual linear taper filter to warm up the tone. This video did a disservice to the builder, crazy price aside. The instrument could have sounded better with a proper setup, more appropriate play style (for the guitar's capabilities), and no GIANT guitar pick slaughtering the strings.
@@peachmelba1000 i agree with u, but i think that at that price point i expect a guitar with no adjustment issues, and a more versatile pickup, aside from being a guitar dedicated to jazz, im pretty sure no jazz player would pay 8k for this when theres better options, and it doesent look that good tbh
so if you are walking your adorable dog and before you know it, your dog, which is a complete mutt and not a kennel club approved breed which has the pedigree to defile objects of great worth, has deuced on a guitar that has been left to sun peacefully on the queens walking path near the queens porta toilets, and the owner of guitar returns from the portable toilet, which also doubles as a shady hook-up location, appalled to find his guitar defiled and steaming of un-pedigree'd filth. the judge in your case ruled that you must pay 80 lord goldenpuddlestein dollars per month of our lord to cover the cost of the un-insured guitar in question and court cost, as the queen must be re-imbursed for the flatulances she must breathe that are not her own. and so your pension must be reducted 80 scraps, or 4 entireties of lobster, for a total of nine years of our lord hence.
@@sixstringtv1 Yeah that is quite modest of you, but for the time you've been playing (for 10yrs even) what 2 and a half yrs? Dude you shred better than most. Hard to believe you haven't been playing longer.
I think you were being a jackass to the guitar builder. The builder is taking the time to be there with you to discuss the guitar and its specs, but you just keep making comments like "only dentists can afford this." That added nothing to the conversation and only make you look bad. Of course an $8k guitar is significantly more expensive than a production guitar and out of reach for most buyers, but this isn't a production guitar! It's a handmade, artisanal guitar that the builder spent 3 months making using high quality and carefully sourced parts. That's why it is $8k!
@@sixstringtv1That's fine, I still stand by my opinion. If I were a guitar builder, I'd be a bit annoyed if the interviewer kept implying my clients must only be rich jazz cats or dentists. I meant for my comment to be constructive, but I probably should have worded it better. My bad! Best of luck to you.
