MorrisrownSal Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Nope... not a Star Wars sequel... Apparently Ren Ferguson is building guitars in Bozeman with his son. Music Villa looks like it ordered a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Whoooo, , , will be thrilling to follow that. Design, Ferguson, design. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Very cool! I wonder how close his guitars are to Gibson's classic designs... Lars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Funny how he chose Bozeman. Didn't think Guild would work out for a Super Star. Extra good news - he's passing his knowledge on down to his son ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59gibson Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Great news!!!!!!!!!!!Looking forward to seeing some amazing builds!!! Best of luck to Ren & Tim.👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I wonder what a Ren Ferguson build goes for.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 May be out of my price range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratherbwalkn Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I would have thought Mark may have visited Fen with some unique offer by now, his name gets lot of milage in guitar world Good luck in his endeavor, deservedly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) My God. The Guitar Porn. Yeah these won't be cheap, but the real deal never is. Frankly, it's math. Ren = Art + Tone And lots of folks didn't take vacations this past year or dine out at Smith and Wollensky. He will have a capacity problem before he has a demand problem. By the way dude is at fightin weight. Looking healthy. Thumbs up. Edited January 30, 2021 by Salfromchatham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 45 minutes ago, Salfromchatham said: By the way dude is at fightin weight. Looking healthy. Thumbs up. Got rid of a lot of hair, too. I need to do that, someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, j45nick said: Got rid of a lot of hair, too. I need to do that, someday. I didn’t have that problem. It went away on its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 so hes out of Guild .. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJB Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Wow this is really cool! I look forward to hearing and seeing these works fo art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Salfromchatham said: Yeah these won't be cheap, but the real deal never is. Frankly, it's math. Ren = Art + Tone No argument that Ren has the talent and creds. And a whole lot of bling is certainly a Ren trademark. But he also has a lot of competition when it comes to small builders turning out very Gibson-esque guitars from the likes of Blazer & Henkes, Kopp, Greven, Walker, Fairbanks and more. So I would be curious to see if his bread and butter guitars are the equivalent of his Gibson Museum pieces or just upper end versions of a line which includes more plain jane guitars and which are within the financial means of us mere mortals. You can't tune or play bling. But I do wish Ren & his son all the luck in the world which will be a far more interesting place with him back in the game. Edited January 30, 2021 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimt Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 I do like the peg head shape.. Pretty cool.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard McCoy Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Rather than return, it is more like Ren never left guitar-making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 21 hours ago, dhanners623 said: I wonder what a Ren Ferguson build goes for.... You will have to ask the millionaires that can afford them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 8 hours ago, EuroAussie said: so hes out of Guild .. ? Ren left Guild after orchestrating their move from New Hartford to Oxnard, and developing a brand new manufacturing facility for Cordoba. So both Gibson & Guild are currently building instruments on platforms established by Ren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoubengal1954 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 FWIW, I posted a new video filmed at the shop in this thread: https://forum.gibson.com/topic/161909-ren-ferguson’s-new-project/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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