badbluesplayer

If it was built in the 50's, you'll be over there fixing the leaky galvanized steel drain lines soon enough, lol.

Pumpkin and Karma -

Vader went to the happy hunting ground this morning. He was our pack leader. Alpha to all the other dogs and cats. My good buddy. Rip Vader.

Vader got hit by a car Saturday and has a couple fractures in his pelvis and has a busted tail. He's touch and go at this point but he has started eating. Send some good vibes if you can!

Dude - You've been grinding along about this for like ten posts. Maybe you need to be eduacated about what "specifications"means. I can help, but something tells me you don't need any help. I'll bet that you probably know what "specifications" means, too. "Select Hardwood" is a specification. If you don't think so, you need to hire somebody that you trust to tell you. But you won't, 'cause you know exactly what I'm talking about, but you're being a dichhead. If you knew what you were talking about, you'd'a said it like "Select Hardwood isn't a specific enough term for me." That's different. If you can't tell the difference, go hire somebody you trust to educate you on what a specification is. Who really has to be told what a specification is, anyway?

Here's the specs on your veal cutlet - A Salisbury steak, in a Shake and Bake, topped with a provocative mixture of Velveeta and half and half...

Docudrama...

Whoa down there! Fradulently schmadulently. Your backstory is not, what we say in the baloney business, correctomundo. Agent was not shown to have lied. Check it again. Pro tip - liars argue the facts. You're saying what Gibson said right BEFORE they got thrown in the corporate slammer. That's what they said 30 minutes after they got raided, out in their parking lot, just like a typical environmental scofflaw does, running out into the parking lot and saying "No.....................!"

Yeah - The COA is not the same as the import paperwork for the laney act stuff. It has nothing to do with that. The COA is not proof of ownership or proof of anything. The sixteen year old kid who bought a Les Paul from me - he asked for the original receipt - there's a kid who's got some smarts. If I stole a Gibson, I'd steal the COA too, if it was in the case, right? And my father told me I wasn't smart enough to be a crook! Maybe I'll go steal something just to show him he's wrong. BTW, you're on the right track reading that release from the feds about ebony. I always felt that it was likely that Gibson signed a consent agreement with the Feds, something you'll never hear about publicly, that required them to stop using ebony for some period of time ( I guessed 5 years at the time,) or while Henry was the owner, lol. Who knows. I did engineering work for clients who were under consent orders for environmental violations, and they tended to act exactly like Gibson did at the time. So who knows?

Ash?

Interesting!

If you think Martin's got wood probs, just remember that Gibson didn't use ebony for five years. There's no ebony in D-Block.

Pelham Bay, NY?

Florida is a special place in the US. Let's just say that it's easier to live there, so the people who live there tend to be a little more "easy-living" than some others. Plus, that's where my daughter ran off with some drunk in a wife beater a couple years ago and I haven't seen her since. So they have that going for them. Don't say toilet though...

Same with mine...

Roight!

These special repro guitars are made for people with low self esteem and/or celebrity infatuation. That's why they sell for so much. There's something missing from these peoples' character that makes them want to purchase an exclusive, if imaginary, connection with the celebrety or his ability, without paying any of the dues.

They used to wear a barrel when they lost all their money. Now they probably give you a paper jumpsuit, like the ones they give murderers when they take them to booking. Maybe I'll set up a paper jumpsuit outlet in the permanent casino. It's supposed to be a big flashy building with lots of positive impact on the community.

They have a new riffy temporary casino near here in Bristol, VA and everything about it just wreaks of the same old trash. They're like "We're giving money to charities." Buncha parasites taking money from ignorant people without a pot to piss in that can't help but lose their checks to Satan. You show me somebody who gambles, I'll show you somebody fighting reality.

Go poop somewhere else.

No offense, but you're just naive. And never take advice from people who are on your side and trying to help. And whine about it.

I've had a bunch of them and they've been great for me. I wouldn't go anywhere near anything else. They're the best stands I've ever seen. If you have the sticky model, then you shuould have gotten rid of it. Stay away from this company if you value your instruments? Funny! There's two kinds of people in this world. Those who double check when they engage a locking mechanism and those who don't. Engineer

Ba assured that the COA is not a legal document. It doesn't certify anything meaningful. It's not a certificate of title. You don't need it for anything. It's just case candy. So you may not have it, but you don't "need" it to prove ownership or anything. 👍

The nut's not cracked. The edge of the lacquer is running diagonally across the nut. But the lacquer is cracked along the edge of the nut. Nothing structural.