Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Why do I kinda like that? It's awful!
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Isn't it.... I'd hit itGrantB wrote:Why do I kinda like that? It's awful!
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
You can clearly see their design influence!
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
That looks like a travel guitar to me--a nice one, mind.jeremyb wrote:A norlin era beauty, the corvus...
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Bollinger does a review of the new Gibson Double Cut:
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
I like those tones he gets. I'm really liking distorted delays. 70s doped up faux sitar sound. I have not heard him get into sound before. Must have just lifted prohibition in his state
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Looks like quite a nice small bodied guitar, he is a giant tho'...
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interesting what he says about the strengthening put into the headstock neck area and the extra fret access at the other end
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I like that guitar and he seemed to get into it in the demo, which is a good sign sometimes. Only thing for me is neck pup placement on a 24 fret gat is different and it is missing two pots, so i would still prefer a SG if I had to choose one or the other. For something different tho, I would want to test drive this for sure. If the volute looking thing that is not a volute actually works, then it is probably a good thing.
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$3999 USD on amazon tho', ouch!
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yeah. Same with custom shop PRS or Fender. Big money I do not have.jeremyb wrote:$3999 USD on amazon tho', ouch!
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Pics from facebook of some kids $6k les paul custom.... nitro cracking in weird places after 3 months of ownership...
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
saw that to. As soon as I saw the look of the serial number I thought it was a fakejeremyb wrote:Pics from facebook of some kids $6k les paul custom.... nitro cracking in weird places after 3 months of ownership...
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!
Not a fake and not 6 months old. That serial suggests either a 2004 or a 2014, most likely the latter. I've seen a few with this horizontal checking from the custom shop.
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