Talk:List of electric guitar brands

	Music portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Musical Instruments, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of musical instruments on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Musical InstrumentsWikipedia:WikiProject Musical InstrumentsTemplate:WikiProject Musical Instrumentsmusical instruments articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

launch of list

The only thing I detest more than WP lists is lists that clutter up articles. Therefore, I moved this over from Electric guitar. I put the mess into alphabetical heads. I removed the frightening Red Links.

I will leave it to others to actually alphabetize the entries, as well as provide credible sources stating why ANY of them ought to be on a list in the first place.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 23:11, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

rationale of theme

The phrasing of the article title and of the intro line is considered and deliberate, and may be expanded but should not be changed.

Most guitar brands are not stand-alone companies, as has long been true — a century ago, "Washburn" was owned by its creators, the Lyon & Healy Company; the modern "Washburn" is owned by US Music Corporation. In some cases they may resemble subsidiaries, but generally these are only labels. Distributors and major retailers have long built house brands while themselves manufacturing nothing: Sears (Silvertone), Western Auto (Truetone), Montgomery Ward (Airline), JC Penney (Penncrest). Valco is known to have produced guitars and amplifiers under more than 35 brands.
Few guitar brands are manufacturers. A small producer of guitars is almost always a luthiery, where the instruments are individually handcrafted. Almost all larger guitar brands do not themselves build significant runs of instruments (if any at all) and rely upon overseas factories, many of which create instruments for multiple brands; some simply apply the buyer's logo to a standard (even generic) design, for instance copies of the common Stratocaster.

Weeb Dingle (talk) 17:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the entries should be relocated to List of luthiers, particularly if their primary focus is on hand-crafted, one-off, cutsom, and only occasional short-run instruments. If a shop doesn't have a distributor, it's most likely a luthiery.

I should also note that, if someone wishes to add a brand name to this list, it MUST have a preexisting Wikipedia article, else it is not notable.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 14:07, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]