[D-EJ915]

cool inlay dude, I also like the ESP forest copy behind it, that design is supreme.

[InTheRavensName]

Originally Posted by JJ Rodriguez

Have you EVER seen a Ran guitar that wasn't copying another guitar? That's what they do.

True, but I don't like that they're using such painfully obviously unique designs from smaller companies. TBH I don't mind them using ESP/Jackson/BC Rich/Dean styles, a) they can afford it and b) they appeal to the mass production market too, so RAN aren't gonna hit them hard with custom shop copies running at custom shop prices

My problem is that Moser are a small company who can't appeal to the mass production "OMG DIME" demographic because their axes are in the custom shop bracket and thus custom shop/high end prices. If RAN are hitting them in that market then someone will be losing out

[JJ Rodriguez]

Well, I don't know what the Moser custom shop price is, but Ran's prices are ridiculous. I went to go get a quote from them, and before I was even done tacking on options, the guitar was going to cost me like $6k+. Everyone always says he has awesome price's, and I don't know if it was a language barrier or what, but he was fucking raping me on options. Could be the exchange rate too, I don't know, but it wasn't nearly worth it for me to get him to build it, and then get smacked with import fees from Poland. I'm getting pretty much the same thing built here for less than half. Not to mention the fact that the picture of the guitar I sent him had a carved top, and he sent me the quote, then I asked him to make sure it was a carved top (which it was in the picture) and he said oh, for a carved top that's another 400 Euro's