Impact on Guitar Builders - Rosewood Ban

[metalmaniac93]

I know this is old news, but I wonder how this ban will impact Guitar Builders especially the larger builders like Gibson, PRS, and Fender, etc.


http://www.wri.org/blog/2016/10/un-issu ... ory-forest

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-artic ... ned-cites/

https://reverb.com/news/new-cites-regul ... od-species

 

[Stealthtastic]

I can chime in here a bit as a dealer since I talked to a few companies at namm extensively about this...

Basically it's a huge clusterfuck for most companies and it has delayed a lot of things that were already in the pipeline.

We had a lot of CS guitars that were ordered from outside the USA get delayed by around 4 or 5 months.

Apparently they are streamlining things though and I know PRS has this locked down very well. Possibly the best.

 

[metalmaniac93]

I can chime in here a bit as a dealer since I talked to a few companies at namm extensively about this...

Basically it's a huge clusterfuck for most companies and it has delayed a lot of things that were already in the pipeline.

We had a lot of CS guitars that were ordered from outside the USA get delayed by around 4 or 5 months.

Apparently they are streamlining things though and I know PRS has this locked down very well. Possibly the best.

Thanks for the information.