Gibson Strat - no, really...

[ToneMonkey]

Don't get me wrong, I love choppers and each to their own, but as an engineer I look at the engines bouncing about and it makes me sad.

Stlll, if you're the sort of person that likes vibrations up your arse, you can't beat them  :lol: ...... Don't tell your mum I said that.  My mum and dad used to have one of these each (without the stupid belly pan) http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/002382/

[Prawnik]

Perhaps naked self-interest might drive them to ensure the name isn't humped into the ground by being eternally hitched to shitee?

After all, they have to dine out on that name for the next couple of decades at least.

As an aside, I owned a fender VoodooCaster a while back, and I'm (slightly masochistically) wondering how this thing will compare.

I hope you are right, Holmes, but I doubt it.

You would also think that there would be a certain amount of brand fatigue in stamping Jimis posthumous endorsement on any and all products, but I don't see Janie slowing down.

For that matter, if Janie cared about QC, she'd license prduction of the "Jimi guitar" to Fender.

[WezV]

he he

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/gibson-removes-hendrix-content-from-official-website-221575

[FernandoDuarte]

That's really weird and I think the "vanish" without a word is eve weirder! not sure which one is worse to Gibson reputation

[MisterMuncher]

Reading between the lines of the explanations for this, the supposed "no hard feelings" toward  Fender, and how they'd done great work in the past, but Gibson were more x, y and z, are we to assume this notion, or something very similar, was pitched to Fender, and they knocked it back for whatever reason?

[CaptainDesslock]

Don't get me wrong, I love choppers and each to their own, but as an engineer I look at the engines bouncing about and it makes me sad.

Stlll, if you're the sort of person that likes vibrations up your arse, you can't beat them  :lol: ...... Don't tell your mum I said that.  My mum and dad used to have one of these each (without the stupid belly pan) http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/002382/

You know whats funny is that we have an luthier here, Bob Johnson of Legra Guitars, who's also an engineer and he also loves to point out all the silly flaws of vintage or traditional gear.

[ToneMonkey]

We can't help it, we think in force diagrams  :lol:

For what it's worth, I love vintage bikes and cars...... and the Harley I was taking the piss out of was only a couple of years old and belongs to my mate who builds custom Harleys :P

[MDV]

Don't get me wrong, I love choppers and each to their own, but as an engineer I look at the engines bouncing about and it makes me sad.

Stlll, if you're the sort of person that likes vibrations up your arse, you can't beat them  :lol: ...... Don't tell your mum I said that.  My mum and dad used to have one of these each (without the stupid belly pan) http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/002382/

You know whats funny is that we have an luthier here, Bob Johnson of Legra Guitars, who's also an engineer and he also loves to point out all the silly flaws of vintage or traditional gear.

Great, innit?

Being a physicist, its one of the things that lets me get on with him well and understand each other.

[ToneMonkey]

He'll like the design that I'm putting together for my jig.  Hopefully I should be able to make an axe to a 0.1mm accuracy.... I keep simplifying the design and hopefully soon I'll simplify it to such an extent that it'll fit in my shed  :D

Maybe I should go down for a cup of tea sometime.

[juansolo]

I haven't clicked all the links in the thread but I assume someone's posted this: http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Pianos/Grand/Baldwin-Custom/Jimi-Hendrix.aspx?

Yeah the man was noted for his furious piano solos...

[MDV]

He'll like the design that I'm putting together for my jig.  Hopefully I should be able to make an axe to a 0.1mm accuracy.... I keep simplifying the design and hopefully soon I'll simplify it to such an extent that it'll fit in my shed  :D

Maybe I should go down for a cup of tea sometime.

Interesting.

I wish I had a shed. I have to do all my work in my studio, with bin bags over the electrical stuff.

[Dmoney]

just wanted to say...
i might try and get one of these hendrix gibbo strats if they totally cr@p out.
unless they burn them all, i imagine there is a few kicking around somewhere.
maybe owning the guitar based on the worst concept of all time will one day pay me back.

[WezV]

personally i was actually looking forward to seeing the USA version, they looked a bit more interesting :(  

[CJ]

I haven't clicked all the links in the thread but I assume someone's posted this: http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Pianos/Grand/Baldwin-Custom/Jimi-Hendrix.aspx?

Yeah the man was noted for his furious piano solos...

ha, also deleted from the site.

[Afghan Dave]

I REALLY want one now they won't be released... (but I would never pay Gibson for it) - Funny how that works  :? :lol: :lol: