Author Topic: Gibson Custom Shop (Read 7865 times)

MDV · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2008, 12:13:18 PM »

Gibson went downhill when they stopped winding their pickups with unicorn hair and potting them in virgins blood, IMO.

Somewhere round 1990.

They were totally screwed when the elves moved to Japan, too.

Scotty477 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2008, 12:25:27 PM »

Rumour has it that the Elves refused to leave Kalamazoo as they liked the name better than Nashville (which has Dwarven overtones) and are still there to this very day.

Prawnik · « **Reply #32 on:** January 31, 2008, 10:28:51 AM »

Yeah, and you know that if the Dark Lord Henry Juszkiewicz (CEO of the new and not-so-improved Gibson) ever catches wind that his secret is out, he'll make Gibson employees dress up in elf-costumes on the shop floor, complete with hats and pointy shoes with bells.

Then there will be a splashy press release about how the elves have come back to work in the salt mine.

At the same time, Gibson will raise prices.

dave_mc · « **Reply #33 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:19:38 PM »

Quote from: indysmith

Indeed. I can see how it would!
I'm not actually putting down their guitars at all, as a few I've played have been of reasonable quality. It's just their arrogance and bad business ethics that annoy me.

i'd agree there. Most gibsons i've tried have been decent to good. Just I expect more than "decent to good" for £1500.

Decent to good means around £300-£400 IMO. even at UK prices. :lol:

Quote from: Twinfan

I know - it's crazy. £2000ish for an R8, £3000 for an R9 :o

and the only difference is the figured top?

Philly Q · « **Reply #34 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:30:21 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

Quote from: Twinfan
I know - it's crazy. £2000ish for an R8, £3000 for an R9 :o

and the only difference is the figured top?

Then again, I was reading today that PRS charge an extra £300 for bird inlays. And the only additional cost to them is a few more minutes on the CNC router and some bits of abalone shell (must admit I have no idea how much abalone costs).

dave_mc · « **Reply #35 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:33:07 PM »

i have no idea either but i'm guessing it's not £300. :lol:

ToneMonkey · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:39:22 PM »

It's not. Well, you could buy £300 worth, but that's not exactly the point.

Ted · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2008, 05:47:17 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

Quote from: indysmith
Indeed. I can see how it would!
I'm not actually putting down their guitars at all, as a few I've played have been of reasonable quality. It's just their arrogance and bad business ethics that annoy me.

i'd agree there. Most gibsons i've tried have been decent to good. Just I expect more than "decent to good" for £1500. Decent to good means around £300-£400 IMO. even at UK prices. :lol:

Quote from: Twinfan
I know - it's crazy. £2000ish for an R8, £3000 for an R9 :o

and the only difference is the figured top?

I paid £800 for POOR...sold pretty quickly.

Henk · « **Reply #38 on:** January 31, 2008, 06:59:36 PM »

Quote from: Machinehead

Rumour has it that the Elves refused to leave Kalamazoo as they liked the name better than Nashville (which has Dwarven overtones) and are still there to this very day.

Zoo gibsons are the shanizzle of elven craftmanship, allthough some elves remained at Kalamazoo and continued under a different brandname, the big Mojo elf had left and there was noone to do the magic shanizzle incantation anymore......

:roll:

The Nashville dwarves are lumberjacks...... :lol:

dave_mc · « **Reply #39 on:** January 31, 2008, 08:01:45 PM »

Quote from: ToneMonkey

It's not. Well, you could buy £300 worth, but that's not exactly the point.

yeah i know, lol. i mean the amount they'd need for the inlays on one guitar. :lol:

Quote from: Ted

I paid £800 for POOR...sold pretty quickly.

dang, what'd you buy?

lulusg · « **Reply #40 on:** January 31, 2008, 10:18:27 PM »

maybe Elvis was one of them Elves........

headtheball · « **Reply #41 on:** February 01, 2008, 12:58:50 AM »

I might be wrong on this, but if PRS can get punters to pay £300 quid for "Birds", fair play to them. That kind of pointless decoration just irritates me.

Philly Q · « **Reply #42 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:08:46 AM »

Quote from: headtheball

I might be wrong on this, but if PRS can get punters to pay £300 quid for "Birds", fair play to them.

Oh yeah, I agree - I wouldn't pay for them, but people obviously will.

Like the £10,000 (or whatever) for a Private Stock guitar discussed earlier, there doesn't need to be a justification for the price, it's a simple matter of "how much are people prepared to pay?".

It's a bit like the well-worn debate over whether Premier League footballers "earn" £50K a week. It's irrelevant whether they do or not, it's dictated by market forces - they're "worth" what their clubs are prepared to pay them.

Dakine · « **Reply #43 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:17:13 AM »

Quote from: Philly Q

Quote from: headtheball
I might be wrong on this, but if PRS can get punters to pay £300 quid for "Birds", fair play to them.

Oh yeah, I agree - I wouldn't pay for them, but people obviously will.

Like the £10,000 (or whatever) for a Private Stock guitar discussed earlier, there doesn't need to be a justification for the price, it's a simple matter of "how much are people prepared to pay?".

It's a bit like the well-worn debate over whether Premier League footballers "earn" £50K a week. It's irrelevant whether they do or not, it's dictated by market forces - they're "worth" what their clubs are prepared to pay them.

Exactly!

However, if looked after a guitar may (like a famous violin) appreciate, whereas a footballer withers with drink and drugs :)

And a guitar does NOT come with a hideously tacky wife :P

Philly Q · « **Reply #44 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:34:38 AM »

Quote from: Dakine

However, if looked after a guitar may (like a famous violin) appreciate, whereas a footballer withers with drink and drugs :)

And a guitar does NOT come with a hideously tacky wife :P

...or a gigantic new-build Cheshire mansion with a cheesy "Roman spa" indoor pool, an enormous never-used kitchen, 50-inch plasma screens in every room and four gas-guzzling SUVs parked in the stupidly wide drive.