RBSinTo
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I have an early GAD jf-30 purchased used a few years ago, because I wanted a maple, jumbo-bodied guitar.
I've seen them for sale at various sites, and see that they sell for less than their
American-made Guild counterparts.
This leads me to wonder whether there were more cost-cutting measures applied to them besides less expensive labour when they were first built in China?
Specifically, I wanted to know if the decorative elements such as the rosette surrounding the sound hole, and the decorative stripe running up the back of the soundbox were actual inlays, or merely decals applied under the finished clearcoat?
Additionally, mine has a clear transparent and quite thin pickguard, (rather than a coloured thicker plastic or faux-tortoise shell one) that gives the top of the soundbox the appearance of a Classical guitar.
My questions are not complaints, because I'm very happy with the instrument, but are asked merely out of curiosity.
I have searched for specs on these instruments, but the catalogue excerpts I've found don't answer my questions.
RBSinTo
I've seen them for sale at various sites, and see that they sell for less than their
American-made Guild counterparts.
This leads me to wonder whether there were more cost-cutting measures applied to them besides less expensive labour when they were first built in China?
Specifically, I wanted to know if the decorative elements such as the rosette surrounding the sound hole, and the decorative stripe running up the back of the soundbox were actual inlays, or merely decals applied under the finished clearcoat?
Additionally, mine has a clear transparent and quite thin pickguard, (rather than a coloured thicker plastic or faux-tortoise shell one) that gives the top of the soundbox the appearance of a Classical guitar.
My questions are not complaints, because I'm very happy with the instrument, but are asked merely out of curiosity.
I have searched for specs on these instruments, but the catalogue excerpts I've found don't answer my questions.
RBSinTo