Most of us tend to navigate life using rules of thumb. We might, for example, assume Champagne is the best kind of sparkling wine because it tends to be the most expensive and it’s from the most famous region for that type of wine-making. When it comes to guitars, something similar happens: we often assume place of origin has some magic influence on the quality of the finished product.
Most of our archetypes for what constitutes a ‘good’ electric or
