If Gibson and Fender went out of Buiness

[Basshole 0]

What other companies would you buy guitars from. There are alot of compianes it seems. Some high quality ones and not so much.

[the_HEWC 0]

Rickenbacker

[MikeRom 15]

PRS, high end Epi's - or did Gibson also take epiphone out of business when they went belly up?

[Thundergod 205]

Gretsch.

 

Have yet to play a Rick that really has "the rick tone" (I have played 2 and none of them were high end ricks).

 

ESP (they make this nice strat copy that plays and sounds great... the downside is that it costs more than a standar strat... so while fender is around there's no point).

[djroge1 51]

Heritage Guitars

 

PRS

[MadeInCanada 0]

PRS

 

Ibanez

[Taylor Player 0]

Taylor, Martin, Guild, or any number of handbuilt Luthier guitars that are being made today. For electric, I would seriously consider another US Masters custom built Guitar.

[AXE® 507]

US Masters - Hamer.

[Homz 3]

Now is the time for a few of us to put together a package deal to buy the Nashville Gibson plant. Would be a turn key operation.

 

form a S-corp and start negotiations.

 

Who's in?

[Thundergod 205]

Now is the time for a few of us to put together a package deal to buy the Nashville Gibson plant. Would be a turn key operation.

 

form a S-corp and start negotiations.

 

Who's in?

 

 

I'm in...

[sgTime 0]

hmmm...if we bought it, maybe we could get a damn 61 reissue that actually looks right...

[AXE® 507]

Gibson during the Norlin era was partially owned by an Ecuadorian Brewery.... FACT !

[MikeRom 15]

Gibson during the Norlin era was partially owned by an Ecuadorian Brewery.... FACT !

 

That's right so how hard can it be? I'm in -

[Boston004681 0]

Heritage Guitars

Gretch

Taylor

Guild

[vagabond 1]

I don't know, really. There's a company called Stagg I've been meaning to try out for a while that makes nice looking LP copies, but I haven't invested the time to take one down off the wall and play it yet. I haven't really played an Ibanez that I really like... so I don't really know. I guess I'd just be glad I got a gibson while I could

[Bluezboy 0]

My Vantage and probbably Gretsch

[KSG_Standard 0]

I don't care, I have enough guitars to keep me busy. I'm more worried about the supply of tubes drying up.

[djroge1 51]

Now is the time for a few of us to put together a package deal to buy the Nashville Gibson plant. Would be a turn key operation.

 

form a S-corp and start negotiations.

 

Who's in?

 

 

So you talking union job or non union in the long term?

[Demoryn 0]

Gretsch would be my new favorite. I'd also do Ibanez artcores, Epiphones (unless they went with Gibson). I'm a big SG fan, so I'd probably pick up a Schecter S-1 mahogany and throw PAFs in it

[Homz 3]

 

 

So you talking union job or non union in the long term?

 

Unions are things of necessity. If the workers are treated assets instead of liabilities they will not be necessary.

[MikeRom 15]

Workers are treated like assets. This is a problem to my way of thinking. Other assets are:

 

my phone,

 

my laptop,

 

office supplies,

 

my office furniture ...

 

See? These are also just "things" to be managed with a cost associated to each. Thats what corporate america has done the to workers, union or not.

[charlie brown 775]

IF Gibson and Fender (just Those brands) went out of business, but the other companies they owned,

by some miracle, survived, it would be: Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Martin, Heritage, and Guild (especially, for

their acoustic 12-strings). But, I'd probably just try to find "used but not abused" Gibson or Fenders, too.

 

CB

[rocketman 176]

US Masters - Hamer.

 

Yep me too...

[Rocky4 180]

There are plenty of old Gibbies out there. But, if I had to pick, it would be Hamer.

[CincinnatiSi 1]

I'll be in the minority and pick Peavey. They have some well made guitars like my USA Limited's.