Alnus Rubra
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Paul is very cut and dry about these sort of things. I remember and interview with him, where he was asked about a certain product and he stated that it wasn’t widely well received (bad grammar I know!) and they stopped production.Or, they should do things like this to see how the market reacts, rather than introducing new models and committing resources to a model that doesn’t sell well.
I own an NF3. It’s one of the greatest guitars ever built. No question. Ask anyone who owns one! Know why they quit making them? Didn’t sell well enough. Not enough guys would buy a guitar with non-standard pickup size, and in doing so they missed a guitar with probably the best pickups ever made and pickups that may have redefined their idea of what great pickups are.
I didn’t notice til after my initial excitement, that this was a Limited and only in production for a short time. That’s disappointing to me as I may not be ready to buy right away. But “ridiculous” and “anti-consumer” are... perhaps a bit over the top.
He’s very plain speaking! Which is a quality I admire.
He’s passionate, but his business acumen won’t let him flood the market with something that isn’t gonna sell.
It’s also shrewd to make a limited run