Talk:List of electric guitar brands

launch of list
The only thing I detest more than WP lists is lists that clutter up articles. Therefore, I moved this over from Electric guitar. I put the mess into alphabetical heads. I removed the frightening Red Links.

I will leave it to others to actually alphabetize the entries, as well as provide credible sources stating why ANY of them ought to be on a list in the first place. Weeb Dingle (talk) 23:11, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

rationale of theme
The phrasing of the article title and of the intro line is considered and deliberate, and may be expanded but should not be changed. Weeb Dingle (talk) 17:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Most guitar brands are not stand-alone companies, as has long been true — a century ago, "Washburn" was owned by its creators, the Lyon & Healy Company; the modern "Washburn" is owned by US Music Corporation. In some cases they may resemble subsidiaries, but generally these are only labels. Distributors and major retailers have long built house brands while themselves manufacturing nothing: Sears (Silvertone), Western Auto (Truetone), Montgomery Ward (Airline), JC Penney (Penncrest). Valco is known to have produced guitars and amplifiers under more than 35 brands.
 * 2) Few guitar brands are manufacturers. A small producer of guitars is almost always a luthiery, where the instruments are individually handcrafted. Almost all larger guitar brands do not themselves build significant runs of instruments (if any at all) and rely upon overseas factories, many of which create instruments for multiple brands; some simply apply the buyer's logo to a standard (even generic) design, for instance copies of the common Stratocaster.

Some of the entries should be relocated to List of luthiers, particularly if their primary focus is on hand-crafted, one-off, cutsom, and only occasional short-run instruments. If a shop doesn't have a distributor, it's most likely a luthiery.

I should also note that, if someone wishes to add a brand name to this list, it MUST have a preexisting Wikipedia article, else it is not notable. Weeb Dingle (talk) 14:07, 24 March 2018 (UTC)