wow these reviews are unbelievable
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 January 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
HJ!!!! http://sinisterclub.com/images/smilies/Smiley_ShakeFist.gif
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Friday, 22 January 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I have never before seen the "angry handjob" emoticon
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, 22 January 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol at those reviews
It's "ShakeFist.gif" but you know it's really "WANKER!!!"
― might seem normal (snoball), Friday, 22 January 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, that’s one way to fix the problem.
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.wsmv.com/story/37542053/gibson-brands-struggling-with-debt
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Really enjoying the "THIS IS THE END OF QUALITY GUITARS DAMN YOU KIDS AND YOUR HIPPITY HOPPITY TECHNOPOP" spin on these stories in the middle of a golden age of luthiery.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
Haha I know right?
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
wtf is going on here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHhKRqdtGs
― sleeve, Thursday, 1 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Some good old boys at the factory decided to make a day of it instead of running them through a bandsaw.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 1 August 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
crushing is too good for those hideous abominations
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
but why not donate?
― sleeve, Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Gibson says they weren't functional and were unsafe - which has a very small chance of being true, they required a special battery.
More likely, for the same reason other companies destroy unsold merchandise - accounting and tax write-offs and shit.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
I watched the other video (by Trogby, or something like that) and he said they were fine guitars. He didn't really know why they were crushed, but figured it was a tax accounting thing.
― nickn, Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
yeah the thing about them being nonfunctional/unsafe is complete horseshit battery or not
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 August 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
I do wonder about the self-tuning thing, if that really worked. If it actually made the guitars go out of tune that would be a deal breaker.
― nickn, Friday, 2 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
They put it on all the guitars in 2015 - even the traditional Les Pauls etc. Widely hated, easily switched out to traditional tuners since the module unbolted in one piece. Supposedly worked quite well but most Gibson fans are intense traditionalists.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 2 August 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
i don't think i knew until today that their nutcase ceo finally got axed when they filed for bankruptcy.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 2 August 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link