I just heard Eastwood is going to make a jerry's Travis Bean tb500 guitar could it be the cure for beanis envy ? Doubt it no aluminium neck for starters .
Jon S. wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:43 am Holy crap! I believe, I believe!I would have put a deposit down today if it had an aluminum neck. I have an eastwood wolf, which i'm pleased with for the price, but isn't the whole thing about the TB's is the aluminum neck????
Though with a maple neck, a TB replica it ain't.
Jon S. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:39 am If there is any builder, of guitars, preamps, amps, effects, or buffers, who has ever paid a nickel in royalties to the original gears' creators for non-copyrighted or non-trademarked designs, I'd like to know who he, she, or they are.Several companies, for example WD Music and BYO Guitar, sell “licensed by Fender” necks and other parts.
lbpesq wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:09 amExcellent point, thanks.Jon S. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:39 am If there is any builder, of guitars, preamps, amps, effects, or buffers, who has ever paid a nickel in royalties to the original gears' creators for non-copyrighted or non-trademarked designs, I'd like to know who he, she, or they are.Several companies, for example WD Music and BYO Guitar, sell “licensed by Fender” necks and other parts.
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Jon S. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:39 am If there is any builder, of guitars, preamps, amps, effects, or buffers, who has ever paid a nickel in royalties to the original gears' creators for non-copyrighted or non-trademarked designs, I'd like to know who he, she, or they are.
I ask this because, to my knowledge and experience, when an old design or association isn't copyrighted or trademarked, no one in the music industry pays when they copy or base their new gear on it. And if I'm wrong, I'd like to know, which is why I'm asking now (it could play a future role in which builders I prioritize for my own future new gear purchases).
P.S. And I'm not saying this course of events is necessarily a laudable thing, only that I believe it's the reality of the situation and that I personally approach the practice consistently builder-to-builder. (Also, paying royalties differs from paying credit. The builders I know who riff off of Dead designs routinely credit the originals. Though, of course, if they didn't, we wouldn't be having this discussion.)