Custom Acoustic Guitars Cost, The More Expensive The Better?

Custom Guitar Cost, Some Facts Need to Aware

The discussion about the price of acoustic guitars seems will last forever. For players, especially for those who are new to acoustic guitars, can easily find some acoustic guitars are far more expensive than others. And often be told that the better the guitar, the more expensive the price.

Is that true?

Generally, in music instrument industry, that is true. Because building a good acoustic guitar requires good quality of material and accessories, reasonable designation and sophisticated production, etc. All of them involves money, time and energy.

Although we say so, but that doesn’t mean a cheap guitar is not qualified for playing. There are reasons to explain which we will talk about later in this article.

Most importantly in this article, we want to share our opinion about expensive and cheaper guitars. Hopefully will help our clients to easily figure out what they want to custom. Unavoidable, we have to try to explain elements that impact on the cost of guitar before sharing our opinion.

Expensive is Better, Cheap is Worse?

As mentioned, in music instrument industry, there is a common rule that the higher the cost, the better the instrument. However, this doesn’t mean the cheaper the cost, the worse the instrument.

For cheaper guitars, the situation is more complicated. And if the instrument is qualified depends on many conditions.

1. Obviously, tonewood greatly influences or even determines the sound of acoustic guitars. This principle makes no difference on expensive or cheap guitars. Thus, if the cheaper one is good or not depends on the quality of material. This refers to the type, quality level, etc. of the tone wood that will be used.
2. Requirement of building skills is the same. Although someone said that building a cheap guitar won’t need so much of experience. From point of our view, that is not true. No matter what kind of guitar building, experience and well-trained skill is essential. The difference is the cheap guitar may not require so much of energy and time. So, make sure your cheap guitar is made by the skilled builder once you want a good guitar with limited budget.
3. Where you want to play the guitar? We mean that if the guitar is for practicing, you only need a good conditioned guitar and an expensive one is not so essential unless you are a professional performer. But we need to keep in mind that no matter how good it is, a cheap guitar won’t provide the best performance on a concert.

In a summary, an expensive acoustic guitar was built with plentiful time, energy and learnt skills; a cheap guitar’s quality is determined by mixed conditions.

What Determines the Price?

There are elements to determine the price or cost of acoustic guitar like tone wood, skills of builders and equipment & tools, etc. So, what makes a guitar more expensive and another cheaper? Let’s have a look.

We have to mention tonewood again. Based on the characteristics of wood material, the cost is varied from one to another. But the main reason is scarcity. As we know that not only music instrument industry needs wood material, but also other industries like furniture, etc. This caused less wood sources, some are even already endangered like Brassil Rosewood. The harder to source the wood, the higher the cost.

Besides, the skills level of the builders will also take account. For an experienced builder, it takes at least 10~15 years to be an expert. For a master level builder, it may even take him or her decades of learning and practicing. Additionally, acoustic guitar building is a heavy energy-involved work as well as time. Especially to build high-end guitars.

For luthiers, builders or factories, automatic machines are essential. Especially for factories, investment for automatic machines is not a one-time work, they may need to upgrade or purchase new machines every year. One thing is to improve the productivity and another is to improve the technology to a higher level.

Do You Need to Custom Acoustic Guitars with High Cost?

Depends on. Let’s start at types of buyers of acoustic guitars.

Players

For beginners, if an expensive guitar is necessary depends on how much budget they have. In our opinion, it is better to buy as best as they can afford. But generally, it is not necessary to buy a guitar exceed the budget for a beginner. However, remember that to choose a good guitar instead of bad guitar.

For professionals, it is essential to buy high-end guitars without any doubt. As mentioned, no matter how good a cheap guitar is, it cannot fully show your ability on a concert.

For Those Who Are Our Clients

Our clients include wholesalers, retailers, designers and factories, etc. who want to custom acoustic guitars with large quantity. We will suggest as following:

1. Design and custom guitar based on your budget. The budget should give you an enough space to get benefits from your marketing.
2. According to the situation of your target market, to make the choice of the order of custom guitar. That means high-end guitars may not the best choice, but a cost-effective model may bring you more sells.
3. Our custom guitar service will always take care all types of acoustic guitars at any budget requirement. However, quality always matters. Thus, no matter to custom expensive or cheap guitar, quality should be always your first concern.
4. Since the mixed order of custom guitar is acceptable, it is flexible for our clients to make the proportion of different types of guitars in their order. For example, some clients may ask to custom 500 pcs of acoustic guitars, among them there are 400 models at a lower cost and 100 models at a higher cost to meet the various requirement on their market.
5. Don’t to be cheap for the sake of being cheap. In this filed, only good ones can get benefits. Price is not everything. Thus, just make the right budget to custom your guitar with right acoustic guitar factory.

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