Thread: gibson double cutaway

Gibson are crap... they are just another multi national company flogging over pver priced junk! Like fender, infact all the companies are selling overpriced junk... Sh&%, even luthiers charge ridiculous prices for their instruments. Yes you!

All boring and expensive... Really! Guitar building isn't rocket science either, the most inspiring builder here I have seen is the blacktown boy making do and coming up with decent looking axes out of thin air (hands down)! Fender people are boring, Gibson people are boring... There is a fine line between loyalty and stupidity.

Nothing new has come up in any of your designs that I can see in the pics. I know I haven't seen them all but I am calling it as I see it so far. How old is the strat and les paul? How many bands that sound the same, look the same, wear the same make up and share the same boy friends at molly meldrums parties have a strat or gibson?

I am a metal head, have been for 20+ yrs, I don't know what planet you guys are from but everyone has embraced line 6 gear, it is cheap as chips and has awesome tone. Not only does it have those qualities, you don't need a degree like you did to operate a digitech floor board... They were so hit and miss, pedals always out performed a bad user of a good digitech, you can be a hack on a line 6 and create a decent sound modifying a preset easily.

I don't give a flying fig who built my guitar or how much it cost, I want to hear it scream and have it feel like a limb I lost but refound... No bolt on neck can beat a neck through for holding that note, nada never ever! Not possible!!! Set neck guitars generally have a heavy body to sound decent, try head banging on stage for 3 hrs with it! Ebony fingerboards are a metal heads tool, rosewood is what companies and luthiers flog off to you. If there were enough metal heads here a poll would be in order...

sorry to say, but none of that is worthy of a reply.

And yet you did reply... You should of seized the moment wasabi!

Originally Posted by AuroraAustralis

Sh&%, even luthiers charge ridiculous prices for their instruments. Yes you!

Luthiers generally charge what the customers are willing to pay for an instrument.

Milk from more the case I think, most musicians do to that I have come across in my whole musical journey. If they pulled their heads out of that dark smelly hole then they would realise they could sink these companies by producing good custom guitars at decent prices... There is but one guy I know who is reasonably priced who makes good axes and he is shunned from what I see for being decent.

Originally Posted by AuroraAustralis

some people should go slap their parents for breeding I swear...

I Couldn't agree more!


Looks like your thread got hijacked Arran!, lets try and bring it back to what matters. Hows you design/build coming along?

Ox

I forgot you can't question the integrity of the industry!

http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nas...25/daily6.html

Gibson Guitar Corp. is embroiled in a series of lawsuits accusing the Nashville manufacturer and various other organizations of rigging prices across the country.

Gibson is a defendant in at least five lawsuits filed in California and Washington D.C., part of a spate of legal action dating back to last year that targets industry groups, according to court records.

The suits, listed under various defendants who bought guitars in recent years, allege that the National Association of Music Merchants, an industry group, held discussions at meetings of manufacturers and retailers encouraging cooperation among competitors to artificially boost prices. Plaintiffs’ attorneys say that’s a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The suits focus largely on national instrument retailer Guitar Center, as well as the association, but Gibson and fellow manufacturers Fender and Yamaha appear as co-defendants. Caroline Galloway, a spokeswoman for Gibson, could not be reached for comment.

OK enough...........
AuroraAustralis.........just settle down.
There is no need for the agro attitude.....go and sit by the river...contemplate your navel for a bit......and treat this place like the nice place it is.

Regards,
Noel Watson
Administrator

I am not being agro, I am calling out the industry which is screwing musicians over in reality. Nothing I said about them being over priced is wrong...

IMHO you are.
And your attitude in the three threads you are involved in doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
Just settle down.

You are gone BYE BYE.

So many people get their chance for 15 minutes of fame...and blow it.

Originally Posted by Oxbox

I Couldn't agree more!


Looks like your thread got hijacked Arran!, lets try and bring it back to what matters. Hows you design/build coming along?

Ox

haha yes it was getting out of hand a bit, did that guy get banned??????

well the plannings goin good, i start school again tomorow and will start making templates straight away, i just came back from visiting Carba-Tec and they were great! there holding a bit of rock maple for me as i get some final mesurements and gave me several links/ email adresses to some guys that can sort out some timber for the top of the guitar.

im goin to go with a bolt on neck to save time and am still searching for a decent one online. as well as pickups: thinking seymour duncan but still dont know

Originally Posted by arran101

haha yes it was getting out of hand a bit, did that guy get banned??????

well the plannings goin good, i start school again tomorow and will start making templates straight away, i just came back from visiting Carba-Tec and they were great! there holding a bit of rock maple for me as i get some final mesurements and gave me several links/ email adresses to some guys that can sort out some timber for the top of the guitar.

im goin to go with a bolt on neck to save time and am still searching for a decent one online. as well as pickups: thinking seymour duncan but still dont know

Sounds like you've got it under control mate, I have had limited experience with Seymour Duncan, (ive had a bit of experience with Kinmans which are pretty good too) but can tell you that they are good. If I were in your boots, I would go with them, remember, the pickups are not permenant, you can change them later if you want, personally I would concern myself mor with the things that you cant change or are much harder to change later.

P.S. dont forget, if you need, you have full use of my workshop facilities if you require.


Ox