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FACTORY INSIDER -- Blues legend Guitar Shorty stopped by the G&L Factory
during a recent tour stop in So Cal. Shorty's favorite Legacy needed a little "tune up"
after many months on the road. For those of you who have not seen Guitar Shorty
play ( "attack") his guitar, we were pleasantly surprised it needed so little work.
Check with the local blues club in your area to see if Guitar Shorty is coming ....
he is what the blues is all about.
sam wrote:Thanks for the pic Craig. Now fill us in, is that G&L label on the horn available for all? I don't recall seeing those before.
Sorry, Sam it is not available for all customers. G&L only put the G&L logo on the upper horn for artist instruments and I'm not sure if they are doing it any more.
Yes it is. Until the price of gold skyrocketed and became hard to predict, gold hardware was an available option. It became just too hard to set a proper price for it. But wouldn't you wish gold hardware would be still available as a regular option?
Stelling Banjos used to offer the gold option by simply charging the spot price for an ounce of gold. There's far more gold on a banjo than a guitar and far less than an ounce on the banjo. The difference paid for the labor, overhead and profit. They did that when gold was $300. Lots more profit available now. For a guitar, charge a % of spot price, say, somewhere between 50-100%. Sounds easy to me.
Dave posted this on the G&L Facebook page last month about gold hardware option:
G&L Musical Instruments Thanks for the comments, guys. Steve, we used to have a gold option
but we were having a tough time managing it and the lead time on instruments with gold went nuts.
We have been touching on the subject again lately, and we may have headroom for this in the next
couple of years. - Dave
March 10 at 2:28pm
