Topic: What makes a name brand guitar "brand name"
I often wonder about that question. When I was a kid, it was Sivertone, Fender, Gibson, Martin, Guild, Kay and Epiphone. At least that is what I recall. So now I hitting into retirement age and these guitar to me are still "brand name" or even maybe "American icon" guitars.
If you are of a younger generation, what guitars now that you feel are brand names guitars these days. No matter how hard I try to believe "Ibanez" is a name brand, it just doesn't click with me.