From Bill Nash on his website, referring to other big guitar companies who, in his opinion, essentially don't even make the "real" guitars anymore, but merely copies of their founder's originals:

"I think Rickenbacker is the only guitar maker from the old days that could actually claim that they are much the same as they once were, as they have not been bought, sold, moved, re-tooled, commissioned Asian factories and all the other things most makers have done."

http://www.nashguitars.com/IMHO.htm

All true.