This Rick Toone T2 is designed to be polarizing. The craftsmanship may speak for itself. It looks extremely well made and has all the elements of a great guitar.
What I'm mostly offended by is the price, $17500 US.
Admittedly I know very little about the Luthier Rick Toone apart from the fact that I've heard his name before, and have seen one or two of his more ergonomic offerings.
Has anyone here own/played one of his guitars? Is it worth the hefty price tag?
R.W. Haller
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Worth the price tag? No, not really.
ReplyDeleteBut the fact is, Rick Toone is in a position where he can charge whatever he wants - He's the only person on the planet doing what he's doing to the level of quality that he is doing it.
He also produces very, very few instruments per year and so extremely high prices are how he largely provides for giving himself a reasonable income instead of churning out project after project for half the cost.
I wouldn't buy one, but I'm glad other people would, because Toone's ideas are slowly filtering through into the rest of the guitar building world and are actually getting to be rather influential.
Gavin, it's fairly obvious that yourself and Mr. Heller are too busy with other things at the moment, since I'm currently unemployed, and when I'm not looking for jobs I spend a lot of time looking for odd guitars that I couldn't possibly afford, so is there any chance you might let me post on your blog?
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