Thread: Lefty Bender??
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Old April 25th, 2009, 07:48 PM   #13 (permalink)
BrianF
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Jmiles I see what your saying...if you look at it from that perspective. It would be interesting to get a quote from a steelguitar builder to make a Tele bender. My guess is that it still wouldn't be cheap though. The amount of craftsmanship and machining that goes into one of those steelguitars is amazing, but I'll bet those guys make even less per hour on one of them. None of those guys are getting rich, so a certain amount of what they do...is just for the love of what they do. They just can't get the real $ value for their craft out what they sell. It's all what the market will bear, supply/demand, and competition of skilled labor costs.
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