3 main ingredients that make you buy that model?

[Dale Rottacker]

1) Recordings I heard of my guitar, made by Jim Lindsey and Mickey Adam
2) Tone of guitar
3) Satisfaction with the 1st Mullen I’d gotten
4) History of the guitar
5) And the Highest reccomendation given by Jim Lindsey, who originally owned the guitar and Mickey Adams, who made it his main squeeze for 4 years before letting me have it.

[Donny Hinson]

1) Reliability - I want to play it, not keep fixing/adjusting it.

2) Engineering (However, all steels I've seen rate B minus, or lower, in this area.)

3.) Playability and practicality.

[Mike Perlowin]

If I buy another steel is will have to be Magical, Sweet and Adorable.

And blue.

[Mike Perlowin]

'Rittenberry'...

I'd have one if only he'd take an order!

I've been told that Fred Justice's guitars are very similar to Ritts. You might want to check them out.

Neither Gary nor Fred will make a U-12.

[Ray Thomas]

Just hit 81 with bad back and legs, Weight, Weight, Weight

[Larry Bressington]

Three things I look for:
1) A business that is still going strong and have young blood, and most likely will be for a long time. (so that it won't be obsolete 5 years after purchase).
2) Co-ped changeability ease and mechanical design, bellcranks and rod hookup.
3) As almost all guitars are great, Weight mostly has become important...I don't worry about Tone as I have played many different axes, once I get my George L in there, I sound the same pretty much on any guitar.

[Charlie McDonald]

1. Sound.. it was her voice.
2. Construction.. she was built.
3. Looks.. it was the color of her hair, blue.

And Jim Palenscar had fondled her first.

[Bill L. Wilson]

It's an Emmons, has The Emmons Tone, and it Looks Like an Emmons.....I'm Shore Nuff Glad I've Got It!