Soares'y guitars are handcrafted in a small old fashion shop, not a factory pumping out 100 a day. In fact they only produce an average of 1-1/2 per day, so each model is limited to about 18 per year. The instruments we offer are just part of the shop's line (they also make regular 6 string guitars that we do not offer). We only import a total of 120 to 180 guitars in our own various styles per year. Our goal was to produce an inexpensive, good sounding, well built instrument. We feel we have reached that goal by concentrating our efforts, in both time and materials, on the two most important components of a guitar the neck and body. cont...