[Should people be allowed to edit their posts? (Tinypic Closed)]

1 hour ago, merciful-evans said:

You can edit posts.

At the bottom there's

quote - edit - options (delete)

 

Hi guys

I don't get that option on that thread (but get it on this one)

8 minutes ago, sparquelito said:

Dava, 

I don't believe that the missing photos are a matter of editing. 
From all I see, the photo links to your original photo-sharing website expired. 

Happens all the time, mate. 

I can go back into any number of my postings on this Gibson forum (or tdpri, My Les Paul forum, axecentral, etc) and find the same thing. 
The text remains, but the photos are gone because either the photo sharing website went under, or their sharing protocols eliminated all old links after six months. 

It's a matter of bandwidth for those website, particularly if you aren't a paying subscriber. 
(I never paid a dime to dropshots or imgur or any of those guys. It's understandable if they clean house every now and then.)

😐

 

Hey Spar.. I assure you man.. kindly, its because TinyPic is closed. I have been hosting my own pics for forums for around a year now.. the above post is the top hit on google for the discoverer bass.. soo

 

Ah! just seen your new post.. yeah spot on! you get me now!

 

[Should people be allowed to edit their posts? (Tinypic Closed)]

Hi fellow forum members 🙂

 

Tiny Pics closed.. a little while ago now.. I for one had a load of pics and used that site for all my forums.. my past posts.. (I'm particularly thinking of this one: 

Have their pictures missing.. hence wondering about editing..

 

Wishing I could re-up using my blogger as host..

 

Dava

[Suggestion: The 491T as a Gibson Gear product?]

On 1/8/2020 at 5:28 AM, Sgt. Pepper said:

Gibson is on it right now. Just kidding. Are you looking to buy some or want Gibson to sell them?

 

Hoping Gibson would sell them .. and  then buy some. 🙂

[Suggestion: The 491T as a Gibson Gear product?]

Hi

I would like to suggest that the Gibson 491T become a Gibson Gear product.

My favorite pickups are:

Gibson 491T (which I put in the neck for loads of sustain.. I play with high gain)
Dimarzio SD
Epiphone P-100 (1957 LP jr reissue)
Fender Wide Range

I did not like the 70's reissue Dirty Fingers (which is weird because I heard these were Gibsons copy of the Dimarzio SDs).
I would love to see the 491Ts for $50/£50 a pop (60 for chrome covers, 65 for gold) sign me up for four!

So two of my four favorite pickups are Gibson owned.. those P-100s go for $25/£25 on the second-hand market, couldn't Gibson get a slice of that too?

peace

Dava
 

[The Curious Tale of the 'Discoverer Bass'..]

I did an Alt History mockup..

Enjoy! 🙂 

 

[The Curious Tale of the 'Discoverer Bass'..]

12 hours ago, pippy said:

Out of curiosity are you aware that Ian C. Bishop wrote a companion to his first book? 'The Gibson Guitar From 1950 Volume II' was published three years after the first volume and has updates on what Gibson was doing at the time as well as quite a bit of info on the Epiphone story. Worthwhile reading.

 

 I have those books 🙂

It was the first place I ever saw an Epiphone Scroll.. which I am lucky enough to say I own a SC-550 Custom 'Black Beauty'.. one of my dream guitars.

[The Curious Tale of the 'Discoverer Bass'..]

Hi Pip

 

I agree with everything you've said 🙂

To be clear I was saying Gibson have first stake to that headstock.

Thanks for the Futura/Explorer patent.. very interesting.

(for fun) What do you think about a special edition.. Discovery Guitar? 🙂 

[The Curious Tale of the 'Discoverer Bass'..]

On 1/16/2017 at 2:22 AM, dava4444 said:

 

 

On a totally harmonic note *cough cough*.. Dean Zelinsky around this time came up with the ML body shape, which is a mirror of the hoax Discoverer bass, with Gibson split headstock.

 

 

I have often daydreamed what a Gibson 'Discovery' guitar might be like, but i think it might be like the Dean ML, but having the quality accents that Gibson bring to their mid-range to higher guitars, that Dean don't. Perhaps the reason Gibson haven't sued Dean for using their headstock is.. they like the ML? (The modern Dean headstock is different, but IIRC they used to use the Gibson one on occasion).. feel a family to it and them..? idk.. Dean Zelinsky sold Dean a few years ago, perhaps Gibson should have bought them? .. again idk. But if you ever find an elf under a toadstool, and he/she tells you about this mythical bass, you can reply you know already it is a hoax 😉

 

I see Gibson are suing Dean..

The Gibson Futura Headstock is the one I reference above.. if you haven't seen one.. see picture.

I am not referencing the 'open book headstock'.

 

On a personal note.. IMHO Dean should settle this with Gibson by offering shared rights of the ML. Both companies can use both the headstock and body shape.. for Gibson the 'Discovery' for Dean the ML.

[The Curious Tale of the 'Discoverer Bass'..]

A long long time ago in a land, far or not too far away, a man of some imagination (Ted McCarty) designed guitars of fantastical awe. These guitars; 'The Explorer' The Flying V' and 'The Moderne' became as we know it, 'the white stags of myth'. A writer on the history of Gibson guitars, Ian C. Bishop, released a book with a seeming startling revelation, that there was a 4th body shape! The Discoverer Bass:

 

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Sometime later, this was (sadly) revealed to be a hoax. And in the years since Gibson never did file a patent. The book Ian C. Bishop wrote was VERY popular, and many had seen the hoax Discoverer bass.

 

On a totally harmonic note *cough cough*.. Dean Zelinsky around this time came up with the ML body shape, which is a mirror of the hoax Discoverer bass, with Gibson split headstock.

 

 

I have often daydreamed what a Gibson 'Discovery' guitar might be like, but i think it might be like the Dean ML, but having the quality accents that Gibson bring to their mid-range to higher guitars, that Dean don't. Perhaps the reason Gibson haven't sued Dean for using their headstock is.. they like the ML? (The modern Dean headstock is different, but IIRC they used to use the Gibson one on occasion).. feel a family to it and them..? idk.. Dean Zelinsky sold Dean a few years ago, perhaps Gibson should have bought them? .. again idk. But if you ever find an elf under a toadstool, and he/she tells you about this mythical bass, you can reply you know already it is a hoax 😉

 

Since 2018 is a *very* special year for the Explorer, the Flying V and Moderne (their 60th birthday), I would love to see a one year only Discovery guitar for 2018 :)