PrairieDog

That was great, and nice to see massive bare-finger picking. That’s my pref, and I get some grief for it.

Hi Dennis, nice to meet you. Just mentioning, I recently bought and returned a Songbird Deluxe, the early name for the SW, to the GC near me here in Minnesota. It’s priced a bit less than a new J 35, and being 20 years old, has a nice open tone. Depending on old yours was, it may sound similar? I liked it in the store, but when I got it home I found it just didn’t bring anything new to my group, and went a different direction. It does have a faint pick stain low on the bout, but I was going to call it “patina.” Anyway, it was still there yesterday when we were looking around. https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Gibson/SONGBIRD-DLX-Acoustic-Electric-Guitar.gc It looks like there is another in Washington, that just price dropped to match, perhaps without the stain.

Congrats! For the new guitar, and having a great boss!

PrairieDog ceremoniously hands the shiny, “BeeGee,” gold-plated, bisected-guitar to Dub-T-123. The crowd roars with approval. A murmur of outraged dissent emanating from the dumpsters in the alley is not heard in the auditorium.

Nod, yeah, I get it.

Hey folks, I just realized Pepper never got into the scrum which seems…. unusual. Curious to see if he was just exercising admirable self-control and avoiding the thread, I checked his profile and saw he hasn’t been on since Friday? That usual for him? He’s gonna be bummed he missed the party.

Ohhh, big thank you…. It was amusing, for a while. Then it just got tiresome. Now, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled dust ups on the merits of of relic-ing 😄

Well, since AI only learns from what is out there… rueful chuckle.

Good to hear. Don’t know about you, but I thinks it’s pretty cool how our spidey sense can pick up on warning signs that we aren’t even consciously seeing. Keep up the hunt!

Aww, heck, you are giving me way too much credit. You already run circles around me. But I will ask my buddy, he’s got the encyclopedia in his brain. I only have bits of very specific knowledge/memories. I was there when he “polished” off the medallion plating, so that trauma is kinda fused in my brain. And I know metals… so it gives the illusion of a bad case of all “strings, no guitar.” 😄 Way back in the last century I just was lucky to be hanging out with some folks who had some cool guitars. We also hung out at a couple super cool music stores and the owners liked to show off the hot/rare things that came through. This, and it was the 70s or so, and much of it didn’t make it into the distracted braincells 😆 TTYS

I’m dying here folks!! (Prairie dog digs out a handkerchief and wipes away tears of laughter) You all are the most hilarious, creative and good hearted folks I’ve come across in a loooong time on any forum. And, @Sparquelito, you win the biggest heart trophy, good on you for trying to turn things around. I vote bot, since the replies stopped once folks stopped directly quoting him. The wife and I are off for a spin in our ‘modern’ ride built better than a crummy (52) Corvette… it’s got a real long… muffler. 😆

I wouldn’t be caught dead in a poser ‘Vette. If that is what you think is quality, we may pinpointed the disconnect right here. Off to dinner, rant on without me.

You might want to slow down? Where did I say it was Gibson forum? Just observing you aren’t doing much to refute the now pretty apt troll label, though, 😄. You might want to take a breath, you are about to pop a blood vessel… really, life is really short, why waste any of it getting more and more worked up, shouting on a board where it has been made clear no one really cares about your easily disproven theory? I’ll just point at all the wealthy and not so wealthy money-making artists playing all those crummy Gibsons. What’s your point, Grasshopper? It’s not like you are going to convince anyone now. Now, Rabs and Dub-t, at least they are amusing.

Oh, completely agree, I realize I left out the snipes were often irrelevant in this type of product, that nobody would have, or common sense would say “don’t do that.” Our product actually had *better* Xs and Ys than the brand he was comparing to, because they cheaped out. But he was doing the old mind-game of insinuating the other guys had something different, that he wanted, so it would encourage eyeballs off our product onto his. Most folks would come back after seeing how low end the other product was compared to ours. Like Gibsons, expensive, but it showed in build quality and performance.

I used to be a moderator on a forum that had this one guy that would put up “fan” posts with hidden snipes or veiled jabs at the product. Posts like, “oh, great product. I did my whole project with it, turned out perfect, and even though X disaster happened and I had to do Y, it worked out.” Or, “Yeah, it has these leading edge features, but I wish it did X or had Y, like these other guys do.” Guess who he worked for? We kept kicking him but he’d just pop back up with a new nick. It got to be a total joke. And man would he get nasty and insulting too when we just started calling him out on his BS.

Well, maybe having some hearing would help? My bro is pretty much totally deaf, that was why he couldn’t function going hearing-aid commando. I don’t know about the medicare thing, they paid for his implants?

Phenomenon UFO Schenker had just joined, what 19 here? Geeze. I also have the Euro copy of Force It here someplace, but saved the moderators the grief.

Careful of the implants, talk to folks that have gone through it, and really think it through. Both my dad and my brother have done it. My dad’s was early on in the tech before they figured out to do it on the WORST ear first, as a result he lost most of what little hearing he still had in his good ear. (He might be the reason they now start on the bad ear, chuckle.) My bro had it done just last year, but I understand you can’t use your hearing aids while you are re-training your brain, which takes months. He just couldn’t deal and kept cheating, especially since he was still trying to hold down a job (at 82!) Lost the window for them to work. Now he just has bits of useless wires in his skull.

Probably coming from the bit in the guide that says, 499 and under was Kala and over 500 was Nashville, but that was only during the transition, before the move to Bozeman. It’s seems folks miss that part.

hmmm…. Did you see the post where the former owner said he bought it new from a shop? Maybe that fellow had the original that the fake (if it is a fake) was made after, since Gibson confirmed the serial number. However, rethe gold plating pitting: pure 24k is so soft you can dent it with your finger nail. It would just rub/scratch off in short order. I’m guessing there must be an alloy involved. Sweat (salt) and electricity creates an electrolysis condition that can pit even high grade metals. I have seen first hand how Gibson gold plating pits, tragically on a 72 Flying V reissue medallion series, bought at the time from a very rep store. After a few years, the medallion had developed a little patina/pitting and some idiot told my buddy to take some Brasso to it to shine it back up. Took the plating right off. Doh.

Well, if it was sold to you as a 2019, you got a problem right here. But you need to call Gibson to verify serial numbers. To make any other judgements, we’d need pictures. Fakers can put legit serial numbers on a bogus ones, but last I checked 2022 was pretty late for 2019, rueful smile. Use Imgur to upload.

Grin, well yeah, that always kinda goes without saying…

So the folks that send me the phishing email banking offers, riddled with typos, have branched out into guitar labels? Diversification, the key to business success.

Well, as long as it didn’t cost anywhere near real Gibson coin.