Rondo site update, get em while you can I guess

[uwmcscott]

Like everything Kurt posts, a grain of salt is needed but this is not encouraging....from the site:

January 6, 2021 Unfortunately, we continue to face severe shortages due to the Covid-19 epidemic. This is true across all the brands that we stock (SX, Agile, Hadean etc.). As a result, It appears that we will not be receiving any additional shipments of guitars at all over the next 3 months. Based on that, we expect to sellout of just about all of the inventory we have. Once we receive a firm notification that more models are on the way, we will once again begin taking advanced orders as was done in 2019. Until then what is posted currently is all the inventory we expect to have for some time.

[ID10t]

There is about 1 guitar in his inventory that I've almost talked myself into, but not quite. I'm taking this opportunity to make what I have better and make myself better.
I believe Kurt and I count my blessing that I've gotten what I have, which is more than what I need.
Don't get me wrong, more is more so more is better, right? I'm gonna go back to my thought earlier this week that it's like 2:00 AM at the bar. If it looks that much better than it did at 9:00, I should goto a meeting.

[uwmcscott]

There is about 1 guitar in his inventory that I've almost talked myself into, but not quite.

Ha, I'm there too and it's not even a guitar, I've had one of the Ursa 2 medium scale basses in my cart on reverb ( shipping is cheaper there ) for literally a couple months now. And he's still had the same 2 in stock that whole time

[BatUtilityBelt]

I feel bad for anyone who is waiting for a great guitar to come around. From my perspective, I am lucky to already have too many guitars and I only get GAS if I see something new and awesome I have not played. So I'm ok with it for me. For others, I hope the shortage is short lived. I know it's not just Rondo experiencing this problem.

[uwmcscott]

I feel bad for anyone who is waiting for a great guitar to come around. From my perspective, I am lucky to already have too many guitars and I only get GAS if I see something new and awesome I have not played. So I'm ok with it for me. For others, I hope the shortage is short lived. I know it's not just Rondo experiencing this problem.

Yes to be honest, we are incredibly spoiled when it comes to the availability of guitars and music gear right now. Even with the supply chain issues, one can sit in the comfort of your own living room and with the click of a mouse have a dizzying array of guitars delivered right to your house in a matter of days. Sure maybe we cant get the exact color of the exact model of the exact brand we want right now, but you still can if you wait a few weeks. Not to mention literally tens of thousands of guitars sitting on reverb/ebay/craigslist/FB waiting to be picked up.

It wasn't that long ago that having just one,or maybe 2, instruments was the norm. Now owning an entire collection is the norm it seems

[andrewsrea]

Luckily, I am pretty satisfied with the equipment I have on hand. I am at the point that I have guitars that are so close in tone and playability, that it seems like duplicates. Kind of reminds me of baseball cards when I was a kid.

[Gergo]

Well, seeing that I recently purchased TWO AL-3200's and a AD-3200, I have decided that I have serious problem. Perhaps it is the sheltering with little social life outside of my sister and brother in law. Still......I really should wait at least six months before another guitar purchase anyways (even though I sure would like to replace my Dillion Firebird with a real one). So, this news from Rondo is a little bit of a relief for me.

For the Agile AL-3200's that I have (4) and the AD-3200's (soon to be 2) I am trying to put unusual pickups, or pickup combinations in them to avoid the redundancy of having "just another solidbody with humbuckers"

[redman]

I know this is a bit in bad taste but this shortage should help those of us wanting to sell a few and keep the GAS at bay.

[nomadh]

Yea, I got so many already. I just played the al2500 albino at the open mic last night. 1st time out of the case in a year. Maybe more. Most there were musicians. Tons of comments. Everyone loved my tone. Kept me up there all night.
So hard to find an excuse to buy more