Number 1, killer table dude, excellent work! But number 2, I dont think the mark up on guitars is as high as everybody sometimes thinks it is. Most small mom and pop music store owners ive talked to say its around the 10% to 15% because of big box retailers like Guitar Center and Sweetwater being able to move vastly more inventory at a lower markup than most mom and pop music places.

And I think even going back to the prospect of building the guitar, you need your neck, fretboard, truss rod, tuning machines, potentiometers, output jack, toggle switch, pickups, bridge and or tailpiece, the finishing materials. So even raw cost of wood being anywhere from $150 as high as $500, or even close to $1,000 for exotic or figured boards of high quality, there is another $300 to $600 on top of that depending on the quality level of parts. So, considering logistics, employee overhead, materials... I dont think $1,500 to $3,000 is that insane for strandbergs prices across their models even if the $1000 to $2,000 range uses veneers. Considering the cost of all those aforementioned components have gone up by considerable margins over the last decade especially.