A sixties top of the line Ibanez and El Degas, is actually SUPERIOR to a Sixties RB250 Mastertone.

As Catspaw has recounted, I watched a blindfold test in New York where about twenty guitarists picked a Brand NEW Yamaha as having better tone, volume and projection, then a series of vintage Martins and Gibsons.

But try to get a gig with a serious Bluegrass Band if you're NOT playing a Martin or a Mastertone or at least a hand built copy of a Loar!! (even the veteran bluegrassers don't expect someone to pay fifty grand for an F-5!

Rick