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  1. Yeah I agree with this method. I was told you aren’t marinating your fretboard haha! A little goes a long way after a string change or something like this regarding when to apply lemon “oil”. I too use Gibson brand solutions to keep up on maintaining my guitars.
  2. @ksdaddy yeah was going to say… what lemon has “oil”… silly name but seems to work for the masses.
  3. I could think of so many ways better to literally blow $400. Honestly could say the same about Gibson guitars too how people pay for the name, not actually needing to spend Gibson bucks on a perfectly playable guitar… people pay for the glitz and glam because we are enamored for some reason by flashy lights and blinky objects. Good thing about Gibsons is that if you turn them around and sell them you don’t take a bath on what you paid - if you know you got a good price. Why I buy used. I digress, not paying $400 for a 20’ cable. If I did, I would turn it in for the slightest perception I get of static in my amp if it were ever present. Hard pass.
  4. Yes all very nice stuff here - can personally attest to that.
  5. Best thing to come out of 90s were the Pantera albums. The worst thing was alternative rock - and grunge. I stand by my claim.
  6. Happy New Year's all! Hope 2023 was good to everyone and hope 2024 has everyone else fare well too. I unfortunately fell ill this year - COVID... I even had a brief moment where I lost my taste and smell like I did back in 2021 which was strange. Luckily, I have my smell and taste working , but after I experienced losing these senses back in 21, I was freaking out a bit there for a moment, because it SUCKS to not enjoy food/drink. Anyhow, doing OK right now, just a mild cold and no hospital stays required 🙂 This would be the 3rd time I had COVID too. Anyhow, after I get over this garbage, I am looking forward to another year of goodness with friends and family and enjoying playing some good music with my buds - that play music. Not interested in getting back into the band scene as I am not allotted the time to do so pretty much, but hope that one day or another I get back into doing some gigs around town. It is a lot of fun and worth it to share good music with good people. Happy 2024!
  7. The wisest thing I live by is don’t believe everything you see or hear. The world thanks to internet is flooded with grifters and all sorts of other walks of life. I’ll say it once - screw the reviews, put the GD guitar in your hands and see if you GD like it. End of story. I have years of life on this earth and never needed someone to “review” crap for me to help me decide if I like something or not. No magazines, commercials, and especially YouTubers. Don’t forget to click the like, subscribe, and leave a comment.
  8. Bad neck angles lead to having a raised bridge. So these help those guitars out. Nice. Also some believe that to get “maximum tone” the bridge needs to be decked. These bridges might help that too. Not here to profess any further, but just noting the market that would be interested in these quite possibly.
  9. I was going to say as far as I could throw my house, but if I lived in San Francisco that might be a tent. In that case I would have not made my point 😀
  10. So much of the food we get from the store, restaurants, etc… who knows what we are being fed. Again, my beef with corporations putting in the cheapest crap in food to save a buck not caring what happens to those that give patronage to their empires. If I had it my way, there’d be warning labels on food that is garbage like there are on cigarettes, etc. To me, what’s the difference if you die from smoking in X years or die from dietary issues in about the same amount of years from a debilitating condition - like smoking causing emphysema, cancer, COPD in general. Dying from obesity related diseases or colon cancer isn’t much better if at all. I trust the FDA about as much as I can throw a full sized pickup. Just me though… There's a reason we need colonoscopies more regularly today - because food out there is a lot of garbage and ironically not inexpensive. Hard to find a healthy meal when you have things like diabetes to deal with and other dietary issues. All I’m saying is that I have seen people die from these sorts of things and hope it isn’t the way I go out. No thank you.
  11. I’d like to think that a vast majority of electronics are made with semiconductors that are fabricated overseas. Sort of like how American are vehicles that use - and they all do - parts overseas? A lot of overseas corporations here in MI that work on building electronic modules for the Big 3… Maybe Americans put this stuff together, but couldn’t do it without international support apparently to make the stuff line workers assemble. Just curious on others’ thoughts in this regard.
  12. Happy Thanksgiving fellow forum participants. Hope all had someone to spend the day with they will never forget. I spent it with my wife, kids, and wife’s family. Only get these moments once. Blink your eyes and it’s all over. Savor the moment… and food haha!
  13. Don’t get me wrong though I don’t condone all the exploitation that goes on in the world but literally we have a thread that is about buying American and how hard it is today to actually find stuff that is pure America. American corporations are international and they are the ones that make choices to have manufacturing somewhere other than America. It’s nearly everything today and not a thing you, I, or anyone else in this thread are going to do to change that. Sure, spare the purchasing for a holiday, but how much will it change. The rich and powerful shape the world we live in. They lie to us as they always have for the centuries mankind has pillaged this earth. I simply don’t have the fight in it anymore to even try because no one does anything to make it change of any significance. We spend a lot of time fighting with each other over here while we are lied to over and over. I’m just fortunate that I have what I do, and I busted my tail to get what I have. In the end, what I have is a joke to some of those with unadulterated wealth. And to note, I don’t have all the things I talked about by spending it on garbage. I learned how to save and afford the things I buy rather than be some credit junkie because I “have to have” all the garbage that is pushed down our throats in this wonderful global economy we share.
  14. Like our corporations, I’m gonna always buy the best value for my buck. Hasn’t done them wrong, hasn’t done me wrong. Then again I invested in my education and make a good salary so I don’t see how it affects me to buy strictly American stuff let alone go out of my way to do so. I used my head and applied myself though. Paid for every cent of my education too. I own my home, my cars, etc. paid for these too - every red cent. The boogey man isn’t the far East… you think these people live good over there? Spoiler alert, NO
  15. The case doesn’t look right - can only see 4 latches when there should be 5. Also that sticker on the pick guard looks like it came from the far east. I’d pass because a real Gibson like that costs more than $3400 - even used.
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