5 Things That Make an Expensive Guitar “Worth” the Price
I’m a big fan of buying guitars in the $500 price range.
Why? Because to me, that’s where the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Up to $500 or so, it’s easy to see the quality improvements in guitars. A $500 guitar is almost always vastly superior to a $100 guitar.
After that threshold, however, the differences start to get smaller and smaller. A $2,000 guitar is virtually never four times better than a $500 guitar, for example.
And as a rule, I like to get the most out of my money. So for me, focusing on the nexus of price and quality makes sense.
But that’s not the only way to approach buying a guitar (and it may not even be the way I approach things in the future). There is a market for expensive guitars — lots of people own them.
But why?
What makes an expensive guitar “worth” the money? Why would anyone willingly pay thousands of dollars for a guitar when a very close approximation of it is available for hundreds?
The truth is there are as many reasons as there are guitarists, but today I want to highlight five of the most common ones.
