PrairieDog

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.

I know I said I was sitting out, but all you have to do to send a Vikings fan sobbing into their beer is say two words: Field Goal

Hey, thanks! It’s been leaps and bounds since and dragging old muscle memory out of the cobwebs. Having a great time, even with the banjo distraction 😉

This bitter and disillusioned Minnesotan will be sitting out this thread….

Putting a shot of the “custom” headstock in the middle of the others to me would mean, “run away, runaway fast.” Oh, and the words “this is not a copy” Right up there with “No, Ma’am, I’m not a land-shark.”

Nice!

Got to see Iggy and the Stooges back in the day. Someone pranked the fancy downtown hotel into booking “Iggy Pop” into their ballroom. A Fellini-esque scene in my head of leather and chained, mohawked, Doc Marten stomping punks mingling menacingly in the hallway with the Brooks Brothers/Chanel set. I was not into punk myself back then, more a self-destructive metalhead. I was there just for the Bowie association, and my friends were “punk adjacent.” And some of Iggy’s stuff was tolerable. I still quote lyrics from “I’m Bored” especially now that “I’m chairman of the bored/board” 😏 Yeah, nothing happened, but that is the crux of the biscuit, as Frank says. It was just pointless, self-serving posturing and acting out. I cringed for the needless anxiety and fright to the folks on a “nice night out” who got caught up in it. The show was unmemorable, apparently.

Nod. While I try to take care of my things, stuff happens, and yeah, I used to lose it. Now I take some comfort in buying pre-dinged things and it’s quite freeing knowing my bonks aren’t going to be the first. I’m sure it’s been mentioned here someplace how the Japanese even celebrate breaks in pottery with a special process, Kintsugi, mixing precious metals into the mends to highlight the patterns from the breaks. It begins to look quite beautiful once your eye gets it.

Well, that is the most basic result of the “free market” certain folks are so fond of: unfettered inflation. Covid shut down the supply chain, no one was in the factories, or at the warehouses/harbors, so goods either couldn’t get shipped, or the ingredients/parts to make the goods weren’t available. Limited goods + high demand = high prices and the opportunity to gouge customers. Outright greed was the prices that were jacked on items that predated the Covid issue, but used as an excuse make extra coin off stuff the store bought a year before. And despicable greed is rampant now, as the supply chain has recovered, goods and parts are mostly readily available again, but prices aren’t dropping equivalently back to 2020 levels.

I heard they were gonna be jamming with the Trilateral Commission….should be a real power set.

I believe it was “On the verge of getting it on” George Clinton/Parliament Funkadelic more wasted brain cells I wish I could recycle.

I gotta say, we’re having a lot of fun with the 2011 mini we just picked up. The first model they introduced in sitka/sapele, the entry level of the group they offer now. But gee has it opened up. For a build firmly ensconced in the “affordable” range, the little thing can really hold its own against our other “serious” guitars. We brought it back to GC because it was mislabeled as the all hog so we were way over charged. But when we played the new ones, including both a hog and this model, they were “nice,” but they all sounded super tight in comparison. So we came back home with the simple 13 year old one, (and a nice price adjustment.) Just goes to show age does make a difference, and even a modest guitar can come to sound great with enough of it.