(Handmade).... just makes for more errors in the building process.
You made an error in assumption, Cederick. Ever heard of "Viva la difference!"? Differences are what you get with hand built. Hand built makes allowances for certain materials or techniques that actually improve over CNC machines who don't see, think, or feel. And hand built is still something that is cherished - especially from high end makers like Benedetto, Somogyi, etc. It's called CRAFTMANSHIP. You pay extra to get it.
Again - makers THINK. Machines don't. And they don't always do what men tell them to do. We see it every day when you think about it. How often does your PC butch up? Your car? Get the picture?
And new guitars are only "CNC machined and mass produced".
Again, Cederick - error in assumption. You think machine made means no mistakes... What it really means is BIGGER mistakes. I know, my other job was as a tool & die machinist. I also having been programming since the late 70's and made a lot of stuff on CNC machines. The people who run them make mistakes at nearly every point in the process, and any machinist has seen CNC's act with minds of their own, tearing up parts and even damaging themselves. It's true. CNC is no guarantee of greatness.
You and I will never know just how much stuff gets butched up by CNC machines at Warmoth, Taylor, Gibson, etc. Most goofs are immediately obvious, and will never leave the production floor to see the light of day.
Finally, mass production used to have a bad connotation. It still does to a degree. Mass production does not guarantee high quality. It guarantees a certain level of
average quality. Which is why most Taylors all sound alike, but they don't all sound great.
So, yes - Warmoth is high quality, no argument there. But it's not because of CNC. I've been doing business with them way before they used CNC stuff - they used jigs and fixtures and even hand tools. They set the bar pretty high, and THAT'S what counts. Not the tool they use to achieve it.
