The Delta Snake Review - A Music And Arts Blog - Dec. 3, 2022
THREE REVIEWS FROM THE DELTA SNAKE ARCHIVES: VOL. ONE NOTE: VOL. 2 COMING SOON. THIS ISSUE WILL HAVE THAT LINK WHEN ITS LIVE. Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (Revised Dec. 3, 2022) (Model: Klaudia) No. 1: Are American-made guitars really better? As a general rule, American-made guitars, particularly electrics, are better made and of higher quality (There are important exceptions, but for the purposes of this essay, we'll stick to the generality). The reason isn't that Americans are better at making guitars. It's about cost. It's because America uses foreign factories to make the lower-priced economy models. When making first-line guitars for their own market, countries like Japan generally make guitars that are as good as American ones. One example is Stevie Ray Vaughn. He played some Japanese Stratocasters before signing an endorsement deal with Fender. The main reason was that Fender wasn't producing guitars in the United States for about a decade or so. It was after the ...