badbluesplayer
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1 hour ago, Murph said:
Mine is well over a hundred years old.
Hers was probably built in the 50's, yea it needs a lot of work, but she'll be debt free.
It has a view of the Mighty Ohio and is above flood line. I'm proud of her for taking this on.
If it was built in the 50's, you'll be over there fixing the leaky galvanized steel drain lines soon enough, lol.
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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.
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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!
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9 hours ago, Larsongs said:
rct my friend,
My other Sources Customer Service Martin Guitars who I called & spoke to.. As of 2023 Due to availability of Woods, or lack thereof, they won’t necessarily be specified like they used to be.. Whether it’s Sitka, Adirondack, Brazilian, East Indian, Madagascar etc. They reserve the right to not designate the name or origin of Mahogany, Spruce or other Wood..
Also Martin Models that appeared prior to 1963 had Volutes which had nothing to do with strengthening the Necks. It was purely decorative… The D-35 appeared after 1963 & doesn’t have the Volute..
My other Source was my Rep of 15 years from Sweetwater.. The biggest Guitar Store in America…
Again, I still think Martin will build some very fine Premium Guitars but they can do a better job when it comes to a Premium Purchase Experience…
Again, I find it bizarre & laughable that guys on a Guitar Forum dedicated to discussing Guitars are so over defensive against the concept of Guitar buying Customer's wanting to know what their, $2,000, $3000, $4000 or more Guitars are made of..
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?
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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...
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Docudrama...
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1 hour ago, CROWB8 said:
Yup!
Dont wanna dive back into it. But richlight was used as a sub. Roughly from '03-'12. May have also been on guits outside those years. But the purpose was originally used as a sub.
The back story on ebony was that they (Gibson) were fraudulently accused of *knowingly* importing the endangered spicies of ebony from Madagascar. It was prooven not the case. The agent who testified, on paper, lied. But Gibson settled due to the cost of defending the suit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/gibson-guitar-hit-penalty-importing-rare-woods-flna927206
And some rosewood spicies were also in Q. Indian laurel for one. Different incident.
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.....................!"
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On 1/2/2023 at 4:51 PM, CROWB8 said:
Doesnt it also have to do with customs while traveling as well? Seem to recall reading bout certain woods on guits being barred from importation to a given country. Be it private party or corp. Unless accompanied by manufacture cert. Met by Gibson COA cert. Ebony comes to mind. Proof wood was not harvested from protected areas.
Got a coa w my '21 LPCBB 70TH.
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?
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1 hour ago, Murph said:
Surely not. I wonder what they used ?
Ash?
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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.
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Pelham Bay, NY?
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3 hours ago, Farnsbarns said:
A friend was actually publicly berated in Florida for using the word toilet.
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...
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1 hour ago, Whitefang said:
... But then again, my Grandfather died in 1981 at age 84. which would make him born in 1897...
Same with mine...
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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.
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8 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
Remember the first one is free. After that you gotta pay.
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.
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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.
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On 12/22/2022 at 6:50 PM, Wmachine said:
Maybe to you, but not to others. You think they make them for no reason? One reason is evidence that it is not fake. But more importantly it can be very important for verification of a model. If you are trying to sell a reissue, you would understand the importance of that.
Go poop somewhere else.
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On 12/22/2022 at 6:50 PM, Wmachine said:
Maybe to you, but not to others. You think they make them for no reason? One reason is evidence that it is not fake. But more importantly it can be very important for verification of a model. If you are trying to sell a reissue, you would understand the importance of that.
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.
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16 hours ago, doctormrd said:
I have just had my second stand failure. The first failure was with the single stand model and now the second failure was the triple stand model.
I had three vintage, valuable guitars on this stand, removed them to clean the area, and had the locking mechanism fail and drop the height as soon as the stand was moved. This could have been catastrophic had the guitars still been on the stand. Both stands failed the same way with the height locking mechanism becoming extremely sticky and then disintegrating shortly after.
I contacted Hercules directly over six months ago and they have refused to honor their lifetime warranty for a known and common problem with their stands. My dealer has long since went out of business and cannot be contacted.
Stay away from this company and their equipment if you value your instruments.
Doc
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.
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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. 👍
2019 Les Paul - fingerprints under the finish
in The Gibson Lounge
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My advice is to flush a thousand dollars down the toilet every five minutes until you realize that you need to buy a new guitar from a dealer if you want to have the same buyer protection that a new buyer has.
You are never going to win any arguments about this. You are going to have to buy new guitars if you want to be able to return them.
Another thing - this notion that you are able to tell what fingerprints developed where, at what time, in a finish you have no experience with, and the notion that you're expert enough to tell what causes defects in a used guitar that nobody knows where it's been - that's going nowhere. The problem is buying an expensive guitar used when you really want a new guitar. Next time, buy a new guitar.
And good luck trying to blame Gibson. No way. Not in a million years.