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Best wishes to the pup!

Maybe his Rickenbacker too. I know it went through a few refinishes for “reasons”.

Does lacquer ever truly cure? Just asking.

I once knew a minister that had the mindset that any finish on the top is evil. I went to his house in the early 90s and saw several guitars, including a Martin D-35, with the finish sanded off the tops. He claimed it allowed the top to breathe and let it's true voice come out. Passed along with no opinion. I once read an article about violin building and it said that a violin "in the white" (no finish) will tend to be wild and unfocused, tone wise, The finish is what dials it in. Hence all the arguments about varnish over the past 500 years or so. Also passed along with no opinion. Back to the preacher man, my father bought an early 50s J200 from him for $50. This was 1970 I believe. Even though I was ten, I knew there was something amiss with a J200 that had a natural top and sunburst back and sides. Now we know. It was sans laque.

My Victory Bass sure looks offset to me. I'll grab a yardstick and take pics later. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

I’m pop riveting some sheet metal onto the rocker panels of an ‘09 Focus. And the Emmy goes to…..

The Jaguar was discontinued in 1975 and the Jazzmaster in 1980 so I doubt Gibson was trying to compete with those models. Yes, they brought them back, first in Japan, then AVRI, now all over the place. I have a sonic blue Squier JM that is STUPID good. I read somewhere, years ago, and I do not have the footnotes to back it up, but the words stuck in my head whether they are true or not... that if a product (in this case, a guitar) is out of production for X number of years (the number 27 sticks out) that the company loses a certain amount of "ownership" of that design and then anyone can copy it. I DO NOT CLAIM THIS TO BE HOLY SCRIPTURE. I read it and it stuck. Fender also reissued the Mustang, Duo Sonic, (do they offer the Musicmaster?), even the much maligned, misunderstood and underappreciated Coronado. Maybe not in the 27 year window but not far off. If this patent/copyright thing has a grain of truth, it would offer ONE reason for Gibson to be making RDs and Victories again. I don't think they need to reissue the Sonex, Challenger, Invader.... already covered by the single cut thing. One word..... Corvus.

They came out in '81 and vibratos weren't popular at that time. Even Fender was making nearly as many hardtail Strats in the late 70s as they were vibrato models.

Saw Steve Miller a couple years ago and had my Leatherman Squirt in my pocket. It's like the Leatherman equivalent of a pen knife. I chose to walk the 10 minutes back to the car to drop it off. Except it was 20 because I got lost. But I still have my leatherman.

That the company made it out of the 1970s without padlocking the gate?

So did I. “I’m not touching yoooouuu…”

Okay, so not QUITE 12 lbs....

Yep maple body.

I’ve got an ‘81 Victory bass. It’s a victory if you can pick it up. Weighs about 12 lbs. Killer tone and playability!

It’s hard sometimes, if a tragic event happens in the news, for example…. even though we’re not supposed to talk politics here, people need to vent and process things. If a mini van full of nuns gets stepped on by Godzilla, people are going to talk about it! People need catharsis and if it happens here, then I don’t typically say anything until about page 3 when people start using a tragic news event to get on a soap box and preach, and in doing so, they automatically alienate and infuriate a minimum of 50% of the forum population. Then one of us locks the thread and we get accused of not moderating enough. As I tried clumsily to point out, sometimes we have to blur the lines a little because we are all human and not concrete, binary, “black or white” all the time. The only thing guaranteed in life are death, taxes, and the Gibson moderators are wrong. 😉

100% agree. But in addition to it being unreliable and way too heavy for a 12 year old, my riding consisted of riding around snow covered potato fields, constantly blazing new paths. Organized trails were a decade away around here. And the notion of a snowmobile suit and a helmet was foreign to me. I guess one winter was just enough to convince me I would rather be on two wheels while the grass is green.

I had a 1968 Moto Ski in the winter of 1972/3. Sold it and never looked back.

No. If you post some photos we can offer our collective opinions on whether the guitar is a real Gibson or not.

I won’t defend that guitar but consider this: if you watch old tv footage from the 50s, you’ll see that people had this crazy idea of replacing the stock guards with big oversized monstrosities. Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, just to name a few. Even Wilf Carter had a horrible oversized guard on his early 30s Martin. People just DID it, like they put sissy bars on every motorcycle in the 70s.

They went to the Ed Wood College of Continuity.

Sometime between 2:12 and 2:14 the guitar switched positions by 180 degrees.

I've had Norlin maple necks with zero issues. I've also had several twisties. Luck of the draw I guess.

I've had several 70s Gibsons with maple necks that are twisted. If I was lucky enough to get the truss rod to work, the best I could get was "too much relief" on the bass side and "not enough relief" on the treble side. If the guitar had an adjustable bridge, it would end up looking like this: Not saying this guitar falls into that scenario, but it IS a 1978 with maple neck and has the bridge adjusted cockeyed. (photo stolen from the internet) I'm in the market for a 175 but I think I will stick to a mahogany neck. NOT ALL MAPLE NECKS TWIST REGARDLESS OF BRAND. But I've owned several 70s Gibsons that did.