bigtim
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Looking for input from you that have a Blueshawk. Would like to know your likes and dislikes please. How much you like it compared to your other guitars and all. Thanks
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I thought this would be kind of fun for everyone. There may be some other threads similar on here from the past but what the heck. Anyways so here is my little story.
I was 6 years old back 1979. A new bass player showed up at church and his bass was a white 1970's Fender Jazz bass with maple neck and black inlays. Man he was awesome and a bad a$$ bass player too. I really enjoyed watching and listening to that fellow so much that I do not remember anything else from that time in church but that guy who played the bass. I never knew his name and I really did not know it was a bass, I just thought it was another guitar.
I asked and bugged my parents for a guitar. Every Christmas my parents would throw the old Sears Wish book at me and my brothers and told us to circle what we wanted. Of course they did that every year and although we would circle stuff in the Sears catalog we never really got exactly what we circled. But none the less Christmas was never lacking in any way.
Anyways on Christmas morning in 1979 I was the first up and went to the tree and there was that weird triangle shaped card board box. It was not wrapped and there was no name on it. I opened it up and saw it was a little acoustic Harmony guitar. I did not know who it was for because there was no name on it.
So I ran into my parents room. Mom was still in bed. I asked her who the guitar belonged to. She told me "For you!!"
I told her "I kind of thought so but was not sure because I had never got any other thing I really wanted for Christmas before!"
What a little smart a$$ remark from me!! But I look back and laugh about it now.
So lets hear from you other fellow Gibsonites please!!
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Great post. I have never heard of it either. Thanks for sharing and that was a great score!!
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Wow this thread started in 2011 and is still getting replies. I guess I will jump into this and give my 2 cents. Just recently I have jumped up from a boss br600 digital 8 track that I have had since about 1999 or something. It records on to 100mb zip disks. I was actually looking at getting an old 4 track recorder that used cassette tapes because the hard drive on my boss br600 acts stupid sometimes. It is okay for throwing stuff down in a pinch and has some pretty cool effects though. The studio I play at has some system called nuendo. I thought I would never ever get used to trying to learn anything because to me it looked so complicated. I went to the local guitar shop here in town and they told me everything was online now and they did not have anything like that for sale. I was kind of bummed out. I have always heard protools was complicated. Heck it all is complicated if you have no idea where to start. One guy threw something on to my computer called FL studio or something. The format was not familiar and I did not even mess with it. I was used to looking at the timeline scrolling template on the screen at the studio I go to and I wanted something more similar to that. Well the past couple of weeks I found a guy selling off a protools 9 package with an interface. I hooked it up and at first nothing made sense. So I took the time and loaded a template that looked like what they use in the studio I frequent and now I am having a freaking blast. It is no where near as complicated as I thought it would be. I should have done this years ago. Now I think I will be able to send a wav file of guitar tracks by email to the studio without having to go there. That is the reason I even got into the computer studio thing. Man it is a whole new world and with endless options. I am very happy. I can see why there are so many independent labels out there now. I do not know exactly what I am doing by any means just yet but I can record, mix, add delays or reverb to tracks, cut parts out, adjust eq on tracks, add fades at the end and edit with it and have had it set up less than a week. This is pretty cool. I guess I am way behind on some things....sorry I may have rambled on a bit!
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LOL thanks. I guess I am the only one who has a little passion for it. I personally think it might be a good investment since there are only 600 world wide. I have saw a few for sale used on the auction site. I know about the so called Gibson quality issues as well but hey You don't have to spend over 3000.00 to get the same issues your talking about you know. Imagine all the money you would have saved just buying regular production made guitars. (No pun intended) I guess this is my opinion for grabbing one up. There are only 600 world wide. It has full size humbuckers. The non hardshell case is okay with me because I have too many of them right now anyways. I found one good decent video of a guy playing one. Problem is, it is in Japan and he only demos the sound and does not say anything about it. Not that it would have mattered because I do not speak Japanese anyways. I was hoping someone had one on here or maybe have played one at a guitar center and could give their 2 cents input. I am not concerned if people thinks it is ugly because I do too. But to me it has that good kind of ugly going for it.
What else would you want to know about this? If you are asking for opinions (and do NOT take anything I say personally please), I'd gladly give mine strictly on this guitar you are inquiring about... I think this guitar is absolutely hideous! Whether or not it plays find or sounds great - don't care. Thank God there are only 600 of these in the world I live in! As for quality, well, you'll probably get the usual flaws from a $3000 Gibson USA guitar - and maybe even more so because this guitar is supposedly for $900. Take it from me - a guy who has purchases Custom Shop Les Paul and a 2018 Classic LP. I know what you get for the money... Again, not trying to be a jerk here, but I am appalled that something like this would be presented to the public and not even have the courtesy to include a hard shell case in the deal. I wouldn't be caught dead with this thing in my hands. -
I have saw that. Thanks but I am.more interested in the opinion of someone who actually has one. Only 1 vid on the tube with a guy saying he is sending it back. Said it was poor quality. I would just like more input
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Been looking at this guitar. I am not seeing much online about it. This is the one with full size humbuckers, all black hardware, black pickguard, metallic orange finish with only one volume and one tone. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks
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Who the heck cut it up??? What a bummer!!!
Who has a Blueshawk and tell me your thoughts please?
in Gibson USA
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Well I got to say i laughed my a$$ off at the first reply!!! LOL I feel kind of that way myself. I started this thread because I purchased one. I like it and yes it is a small body for a fat dude like me but I like how it plays. Here is a picture of it. Now what I thought was a tone knob is some kind of pot that splits a coil maybe? And it has that variswitch thing that seems to put it out of phase. I have no idea. But this is a 1998 model and came with the factory brown hardcase. It is a cool little axe so far and for 600 bucks I thought it was a good purchase considering. I have already set the action and put new strings on it. He even threw in a strap and a new set of strings too!! I like it so far.