Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

jps wrote:

weemac wrote:I'd love a old Ferrari but I can only afford a old Fiat!
emac.

In that case get a FIAT Dino.

grazioso wrote:

jps wrote:

weemac wrote:I'd love a old Ferrari but I can only afford a old Fiat!
emac.

In that case get a FIAT Dino.

or yugo

whojamfan wrote:With the price of fuel today, I think I would rather have the Yugo.

weemac wrote:A fiat dino is still $20,000 here in Australia
A decent Fiat 2300s is $15,000 to $20,000
A decent Fiat 124 coupe is $5,000
A 131s wagon is free.

grazioso wrote:things like crockenbackers and those 4005 and one off pieces came out of need for something different that the RIC is simply not willing and/or able to do. if the person who plays it out is big enough name the corporation will look the other way. it is pointless to put some cheap do it yourself look_a_like kit next to f body or other high end rickenbacker inspired guitar. that is wrong match.

paul w has licence to make acoustics - that sounds like good way to do it here in us for high end instruments that there is no gigantic demand for.

what i don't get is : why everybody talks about china everytime this debate rises from the ashes again. there are other countries where decent guitars are being produced beside china (e.g. czech republic where i came from) where people do have enough integrity not to do extra production runs and production cost is somewhere between orient and usa. you can still find here and there very nice epiphones les pauls made for european market there in 1990's which i wouldn't hesitate to put against any us made gibson. the only reason this production ended was the fact that korean production was cheaper. the same factory went and produced bunch of high end dean guitars and same story, it went to korea or whatever. than they went making fender like parts for parts dealer, last news i got is that they are closed. the whole region took big hit there from this. typical corporate **** of penny saving. so taking dormant label like electro and make bunch of those es16 es17 and like 450/12 with electro label for normal money in place like that sounds like win win to me. it is part of eu, so you have your trademark and copyright laws enforced, quality of production is excellent, no eu import duties. why nobody thinks of that? beating again and again that empty straw of oriental crop in these debates seems rather pointless.