Members GuitarNoobie Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mc_carlini Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 WHY?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 I would think the chain one is not a repair, just a bad idea for "cool" look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Les Paul Lover Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 These guitars need to be sent to meandi for some urgently needed TLC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members treedroppings Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 those are some lousy repairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 On CList that would read. Players guitar should buff out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keNz Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 The painted chain one reminds me of a public park bathroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 That chain one is going to give some serious reverse-bucklerash.. OUCH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Annoying Twit Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 I predict that in a short while, one of those anti-Gibson people will come along and make a comment about Gibson quality control breaching new lows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dougie.Douglas Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Aslong as it works... Y'know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 32-20-Blues Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Clearly, gentlemen, Gibson quality control has breached new lows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Lol. Those repairs pretty much destroy any value the guitars may have had before the repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajympt Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 This reminds me our old van when I was growing up. It rusted out on the side but my dad was too cheap to have it fixed so he cut out a piece of the slide from an old swingset and pop riveted it on. Very classy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coralkong Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 If you're going to do that lousy of a job, why bother? You've pretty much destroyed it at that point. Some fool would buy it though, because it says Gibson on the headstock...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vintage55 Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 New models coming in 2010 from Gibson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChrisGansz Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Whatever works - how old are those pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MKSkud Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 By the look of the guitar, something tells me that the owner doesn't really care about the quality of repairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 How can someone care enough about guitars to make all those repairs and not realize how wrong it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 long as the dude gets his tone out.. i kinda dig seeing those.. makes me think the guitar gets played and is not just a case weight.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dougie.Douglas Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 long as the dude gets his tone out.. i kinda dig seeing those.. makes me think the guitar gets played and is not just a case weight.. +1 Aslong as it works And... aslong as he doesn't claim it as 'New' when/if he sells it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lowbrow Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 I would bet, given those all seem to be 50's Gibsons, that they aren't too far from what passed as the state of the art of luthery at the time. It really has made significant advancements in the last 40 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unworthy Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Tone is in the turnbuckle. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members GuitarNoobie Posted December 20, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Whatever works - how old are those pics? got these from an old thread on another forum. i was googling something and that thread came up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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