Canada USA Tariffs and Guitars and Luthiers. Why buy a luthier built guitar?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This is the perspective of one small scale guitar maker on looming trade war that starts February 1, 2025… Who knows what is gonna happen? I guess we will find out!
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This video is awesome! Being a full-time musician here in Canada I’ve been very lucky to establish relationships with three builders over the years. Now half of the guitars I own have been built by these extremely talented Luthiers. Yes they are relatively obscure names in the overall Guitar market, but we have great working relationships. I promote their product, they’ve given me some very good deals on product, and honestly, I would put their instruments up there with anything out there. I’ve always been proud to play these handmade small bench guitars built by Jesse Brown out of Toronto, Patrick Hawley out of Ottawa, and Peggy White, originally from Almonte, now dwelling elsewhere in Ontario. I’ve also established a great working relationship with Trevor May from May fly pedals in Ottawa Ontario, and have a signature pedal with him now. I just love working with the small shops and have to pinch myself every so often as I feel so fortunate to have met these individuals. All of the small builders I have met have been nothing but kind, always willing to share their vast knowledge. I agree with you as well about the mom and Pop shops. So much value in this video. Thank you for sharing! 🇨🇦
Thanks for the kind words!!
PREACH. Hamm-tone guitars are amazing. Do yourself a favor and get one.
How about Canadians buy Canadian and U.S. buys US? Well a feel a bit of pain for a while. But it will pay off in the end! Get over the tariff
Another reason to have a luthier build a guitar for you is the neck. Everyone has a preference be it fat or thin. A stock guitar from a factory will NOT adjust the neck's thickness size for the buyer's hands, or how many frets the buyer wants.
Absolutely! Many of the builders will take the players style into account as well and voice the guitar accordingly. One other advantage is fret wire material choices.
I too prefer to use Gotoh’s on my builds 😃
If my wife would not kill me for buying another guitar, I’d buy a Boucher right now, never mind the tariff. However, anyone who does not like the tariff can feel free to buy something domestic, because that’s the way it’s going to go.
Sweet! What pickups are you putting in that octave?
Peg City Pickup custom Firebird style nickel plated bar magnet style……
If you going to get into the politics and start talking about international trade and tariffs, you really should 1) make sure those tariffs are going to go into effect and 2) use a calculator and have all your numbers together before you start talking about it.
As of now, raised tariffs are dead
You’re right.
I’ll pull this video down.
Martin wouldn't be so expensive if "other countries" weren't counterfeiting their brand and flooding the world with "Martin" knockoffs.
@@spazmodicusrex6629 I’ve seen more fake Martins that actually say “Martin” on the headstock. It’s sure surprising that they are allowed to land on these shores. What do you think of “knock-offs” like Collings or Bourgeois?
@@Hamm-toneGuitars Any counterfeit of a proprietary brand is damaging. On the other hand, actual, genuine competing brands are completely fair. There is a caveat that knock-offs that are obviously fake are sort-of legal. If you bought a pair of "Adodos" sneakers you know it's not the real and you know what you were getting. If you bought "Adidas" and got a fake without knowing, that's where the issue is.
Unfortunately, the only thing international jurisdiction can do is prevent counterfeits from coming into the home country of the manufacturing company. Sometimes countries make trade agreements to make "no-counterfeits" a law in their country but, it's almost never enforced.
I used to work in a guitar store near Nazareth, Pa. (home of Martin) and some of the luthiers worked on-the-side as repair techs for the store. Occasionally, the CEO would come into the office and talk with the owner, as the owner was a dealer of vintage/rare/antique equipment. It was during one of the sales we were ringing-up at the register that the conversation came up and he explained how counterfeits were costing Martin millions of dollars a year, in spite of still making profit, and the shoddy quality of the fakes were damaging to Martin's reputation with people believing they had an authentic item. This was 2004 if I remember correctly. I'm sure it probably has only gotten worse.
@@Hamm-toneGuitars I replied, then it disappeared. Here goes again...
Counterfeits and knockoffs do hurt proprietary brands. However, if none of the actual build technique or product design is actually trademarked or "proprietary", a company can build the exact same thing with their own brand name on it. Actual, originally branded competition is absolutely fair game. Oddly enough, knock-offs that are obviously fake are a bit of a grey area.
If I bought a pair of "Adodos" sneakers knowing that they were not genuine "Adidas" that's a knockoff. Still, if I could tell it was a fake and it would be apparent to most people it was fake, that kind-of gets a pass. If I bought a pair of "Adidas" sneakers only to find out that they are fake and very few people could tell they were fake, that's counterfeiting and illegal.
Unfortunately, the only thing a brand can do is encourage their home country to prevent counterfeits from entering, but no other country has an obligation to do so unless international trade agreements are created and enforced, which almost never happens because it's almost impossible to enforce. That's why Europeans (on other countries) can buy and own "Martone" knockoffs and Martin counterfeits with no worries from law enforcement.
I worked at a guitar store near Nazareth, Pa. (home of Martin) in 2006, some of the repair techs were Martin employees and did repair work on the side. The owner/CEO of Martin would also come in and deal with the owner on other brands of rare/vintage/antique instruments and equipment. It was during one of these sales that a conversation started about how China was allowing counterfeit Martins to be produced. It was - most likely still is - costing Martin millions of dollars a year and reputational damage because of this. People were believing that their poor-built Martin was genuine and the "legend" was a lie.
The really bad part is China can make quality instruments with their own brand names and do quite well. The real goal for China however is to slice into the companies of any country they view as rivals and damage the reputation of those companies as well. It's purely economic warfare and has nothing to do with fair competition. Still, there's very little international law can do to stop it unless the fakes are intercepted at port in the home country of the real, proprietary company.
@@Hamm-toneGuitars I keep trying to reply and the comment keeps disappearing... :(