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Twinfan

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Gibson factories have been raided today!
« on: August 24, 2011, 06:26:25 PM »
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AndyR

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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2011, 07:14:11 PM »
Oooh, exciting, that's where my ES335 comes from!
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2011, 07:37:50 PM »
Careful what you say Andy - you may get your 335 impounded!

I'm not surprised they have been raided although I am surprised that it is not for shocking quality control.
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 07:58:35 PM »
And the moral of the story is illegal madagascan mahogany isnt worth it if you cant actually build a good guitar from it.

Oh, the fail.

Maybe its not for the use or source of the wood, its that they might have put some in firebird Xs
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2011, 08:39:36 PM »
Bet they had a riot :D
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2011, 09:53:06 AM »
ah - sweet deja vu ;)



those poor lemurs :(
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2011, 09:55:17 AM »
 :D
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2011, 08:42:52 AM »
Quote from: MDV on August 24, 2011, 07:58:35 PM
Maybe its not for the use or source of the wood, its that they might have put some in firebird Xs

damn you for making me googling what a firebird X is again
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2011, 09:05:38 AM »
If anything, the design department should be shaken down for possession of illegal substances:

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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2011, 10:39:05 AM »
judging from those pictures they've been raided for making butt-ugly guitars and wasting good wood.

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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2011, 10:55:30 AM »
Very Light, Ultra Comfortable and Fast Playing Physical Guitar.

WTF?
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2011, 03:01:47 PM »
The other guitarist in my doom band bought one of those stupid SGs. I gave him tons of pelters and eventually he chucked it and went back to his Jazzmaster.
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2011, 03:45:08 PM »
Quote from: Roobubba on August 26, 2011, 10:55:30 AM
Very Light, Ultra Comfortable and Fast Playing Physical Guitar.

WTF?


Its due to the all those dickheads air guitaring!


And the reverse explorer is by far the worst crime out of all of those

the reverse v coming in a close second
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2011, 05:12:04 PM »
Can't say I'm surprised, there are simply far too many instruments produced out of "mahogany"! There needs to be a ban on it for a couple of years if you ask me.

There are plenty of nice tonewoods out there that are ecologically sustainable. Swamp Ash, Alder, Maple.
And after playing my friend's Hagstrom strat, I'm pretty certain we could without ebony as well.
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Re: Gibson factories have been raided today!
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2011, 05:17:39 PM »
I think i would stop buying guitars if they stopped making them out of mahogany
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