So mayones IS an instrument! Someone tell Squidward!
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Also consider your local luthiers and other manufacturers, they're often in dire need of support, yet get none because their guitars don't have "Fender" or "Gibson" written on them.
My electric guitar is a Swedish Hagstrรถm Ultra Swede, I always wanted to get a genuine Gibson Les Paul but never could afford one. So I ended up with the much cheaper Ultra Swede, have been playing with it for two years and I'm more than happy with it.
I also have two Finnish Landola acoustic guitars from the late 60's - early 70's, a 12-string "Colorado" model and a 6-string "Buffalo". Both sound excellent, especially after I made new bone nuts and saddles to replace the original plastic ones.
Manson guitars are from the UK.
Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they're not European, but at least they're not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.
Framus is awesome. Good thing that my favorite Canadian is also a framus endorsed artist!
Furch anybody? Czech guitars, 1A quality!
Can't believe there is no love for Thomann in here, yet. Cheap and effective, can't go wrong.
A bit pricy, bit there is Strandberg Guitars which AFAIK are made in Uppsala, Sweden.
Most of the current production is made in Indonesia, some special editions in Japan. Still, great guitars.
Ah, did not know this! Thanks. I tried to look through their website to find info on where the guitars are made nowadays but couldn't really find anything.
Yes, it's very difficult to find out where a guitar was manufactured. Often you have to go to a music store website and try to find a picture of the back of the headstock (or nub for Strandbergs). Most the time it's written there.
My last two guitars were Ormsby's, from Australia.
Nik Huber has a great reputation. Karl Longbottom also. Oswald is a great choice too. Taran acoustics, Lowden also of course. That's just off the top of my head.
I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.
Japanese, but tokai make great guitars.
Yamaha for beginners!
Feels like this meme needs to use someone other than an american...
I have a Lakewood acoustic, made in Germany, I'm incredibly impressed with. It's a custom shop with a AAAA European Spruce top and Cocobolo back and sides. Lakewood Guitars
I use Yamaha bass. I think I wonโt change it anytime soon.
Lowden Guitars, high quality acoustics, made in Northern Ireland. https://lowdenguitars.com/
Taran makes some really amazing acoustics too.
Australia is basically honorary Europe.
Heck, all of CANZUK is honorary Europe.
Japan makes the best IMO
Jerzy Drozd (Spain) for bassists who never get enough love.
those guitars are also much higher quality than Gibson or fender
I haven't kept up with guitars in the past 20 years, but didn't fender and gipson fall off super hard quality wise?
it's not a production or design issue (and there are many)
it's just that for some reason the quality control has sunk to levels that have become unacceptable
I think Gibson has legitimately sunk in quality and is a shell of its former self, I'm not convinced Fender has. It is my understanding that QC slipped a bit during the pandemic and some instruments in rough shape left the factory, but I've seen reports of them honoring their warranty and replacing them with perfect instruments. I personally don't need another Fender, my '96 fat strat is still fit for purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE
whichever one has the pickup and pickup positioning that gives the sound you want
I never figured out why people think that wood type matters for the tone of an electric guitar.
The vibrating string is not even touching the wood. Just spanned between a ridgid metal bridge and metal pegs. The electricity also does not run through the woods but through wires insulated by rubber. The pickups also don't pick up vibrations or sound from the wood since it contains no metal...
How did anyone even come up with the idea that wood matters for the tone.
probably started by big brands so they can sell their names for more. The same guy also tested amps and pretty much everything anyone has believed about them, tubes etc, for decades is also bull. He used a few effect pedals and switches to make an amp that can mimic the famous brands he used as reference to a degree where I doubt anyone could tell the difference.
you can make an electric guitar and amp out of scraps and get whatever famous sound you want but a lot of people I have meet really don't want to believe this after lining their walls with guitars with price tags I could never afford.
Question from an Ibanez RG series lover - how do the Mayones, M-Tone and Vigier compare? Love me some long neck action and looking to expand my collection.
Also, I'd say Ibanez, but they're Japanese...
I looked for "m tone" and it seems to be a guy in Oregon
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