Lita Ford Guitar Experience Guitars Explained

[Jim Cara]

Most of the comments are valid, but a few 
One person responded that my post was an Ad,
NO. I made this post to respond to an older thread.
 

To clarify the Headstock Decal
The 4  most recent guitars have had the Headstock Logo and  ........ Customized For Lita Ford.
There have been about 10 sold.

As for who suggested the word Vintage, it was at NAMM a few years ago at dinner with Old USA Kramer staff and friends.

As to why I change the hardware if I am not trying to attract players.
Lita plays the guitars on stage before the fan gets it.  If it does not meet her expectations,  we address them till it does.

I'm not making these guitars to in any way compete with the quality of the USA models or any of your guitars.

I would hope that you can see the value that the super rock fans put on these guitars.  They are the icing on a full day concert experience with Lita.
Most are kept in elaborate displays along with photos of the day and other replicas from other artists that are doing the same thing we are.
This is an elite group of collectors that all know exactly what they are buying from all of the artists.  The experience is the sale and the memory is something that makes someone very happy.

We all can spin whatever someone says whatever way we want, and we all can find photos and info on the web that would validate your spin, and I could spin something back in defense, we could go round till eternity. 

I would rather just be part of this group and read all of the threads. 
I've made a career out of making replicas and putting together fan experiences for many artists and seeing how happy it makes people along with keeping me employed is something I never thought I would have when reading Guitar Magazines in 1975.

Speaking of Guitar Player magazine, In the most recent KISS edition (on sale now)  Ace give me the credit for modifying his trick Les Pauls.
It's not much to many of you but to me , someone who never in a million years would have thought that would happen. It's quite rewarding.
 

[hamerhead]

2 hours ago, Jim Cara said:

We all can spin whatever .....

And you have. At the end of the day (I love that expression...) you're still fleecing rich idiots for thousands on a $300 guitar. I don't really care, do what you want. But coming here and trying to justify it is just funny to me.

[kizanski]

2 hours ago, Jim Cara said:

As to why I change the hardware if I am not trying to attract players.
Lita plays the guitars on stage before the fan gets it.  If it does not meet her expectations,  we address them till it does.

I guess that answers the question about the hardware and the electronics, but not about how many Lita Ford fans are really that interested in her to warrant this level of "investment."  But I doubt anyone will ever be able to adequately explain that to me.

[ebradfordrich]

4 hours ago, hamerhead said:

And you have. At the end of the day (I love that expression...) you're still fleecing rich idiots for thousands on a $300 guitar. I don't really care, do what you want. But coming here and trying to justify it is just funny to me.

+1.   I’m just perplexed by this whole thing.   I wouldn’t have guessed that there would be enough super-fans who aren’t also musicians to support a $5k price tag.     But what do I know?    

I actually play my wall art and no matter how much you tart up one of these, it’s still always going to be an inferior, mass-produced import model underneath.    Thanks but no thanks. 

[mrjamiam]

In matters of taste, there can be no dispute, they say.  Each to his own, and a fool and his money soon are parted.  We have lots of established advice for evaluating this thread.

It seems to me that the main non-taste issue here is putting a "HAMER USA" decal on a non-USA Hamer.  So what if the superfan is advised before purchase that it's just pretend?  There are plenty of folks who put a Fender USA decal on a partscaster, or promote their Squier or whatever.  We call that counterfeiting.  It doesn't matter if it makes the one who brings the counterfeit into being feel all warm and tingly inside to engage in some harmless fun with his own possession - once that guitar escapes into the wild, and all of them can be expected to eventually escape (through sales, trades, theft, gifts, inheritance, etc.), the guitar is expected to be what it says it is unless the recipient is uncommonly knowledgeable.

[The Shark]

6 hours ago, kizanski said:

I guess that answers the question about the hardware and the electronics, but not about how many Lita Ford fans are really that interested in her to warrant this level of "investment."  But I doubt anyone will ever be able to adequately explain that to me.

Go ask P.T. Barnum...