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gibboman

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  1. My dog would be too lazy to carry one anyway, she won't even fetch a stick....mind you is that being lazy or being clever?
  2. Yes, I would reckon so. However, that was not what I was really asking. I was just asking if anyone else on this forum seen the mag artical or heard of it. Every year and model would have good and not so good but it seemed that Gibson had really tried with this year, or so I was led to believe. Anyway, I was just wondering, that's all. Cheers for the replies.
  3. Hi' date=' Sorry if it came across that way, but it was not meant to sound like that. It is simply this, I read that in a mag, pure and simple. It was a British mag right enough. No hidden agendas!!! If I wanted to say something to make a guitar sound 'special' I could have picked any of my guitars. Maybe one i was thinking of selling just create some hype eh!!! However, to say "I guess owning a Gibson LP isn't enough" and then go on about your Classic and Faded, I can only assume that you're correct...owning [i']a[/i] Gibson is never enough. Also, what's this about a guitar being "born"...for crying out loud..are you saying guitars are like babies???, I've seen vids on youtube....and it clearly shows guitars being made by man and machine out of wood and glue etc.
  4. Can anyone back up the myth that 2002 Standards were seen as being the best Les Pauls for years? I seem to remember that at the time a guitar mag stated that Gibson could not keep making them this good for the price. I know that I've played a couple 2003 LP's since then, and they don't seem to sound the same or feel the same. It seems that Gibson 'pulled the stops out' to make them really well in an attempt to get some people back from PRS etc. Myth or Fact?
  5. I've got the same on my 56RI. It started out just like in your picture. It then spread quite quickly across the guitar. I've seen 'checking' going across the top before, but not like ours. I don't clean my guitars a lot, but I do put them in the case when I'm finished playing for the day. I was concerned to start with, but thought what will be will be. It's the least of my worries now, as there is now a large 'ding' in the top where either my son, or one of his friends, smacked in to the corner of the PC table one day.....What's that about character?
  6. I'm really not sure about this one at all. For example, let's look at my 'flavour of the week'....Juniors. Who would have thought that 50+ years after being sold for $49 that some would be reaching $7000. Now someone putting 49 bucks in the bank in 1955 and went every couple of day to the bank and asked to look at it, and play around with it for a while, would be sitting on a little more than 49 bucks today. However, would it be as much as 7000....I don't do sums like that, but I'm thinking the cash would lose out on the junior. Also you would have more fun playing and looking at the guitar then you would taking the twice weekly walk to the bank. Investments are never easy, well good ones aren't. you would have to pay your money and take your chance. Stating 10 years is a little unrealistic for an average guitar, but 25+ might show a better pay back. So 25 years of joy (and sometimes pain) of guitar playing could be seen as priceless. Buy what you want, play it when you want and wait to see what happens.
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