Gibson

Would you buy it?

  • Yes I love it

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • It wasn’t good then and it’s no good now

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Would rather buy 5k worth of Ge transistors

    Votes: 8 21.6%

  • I already ordered one

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yeah no

    Votes: 26 70.3%
  • Total voters
    37
I like the pickgaurd in the original drawing a lot more. And it looks like he put humbuckers in the drawing as well, which would change the look of it a lot.

I think it’s an cool idea, but why not find someone to design something now instead of using a design from 60 years ago. Pretty interesting idea of “new”.

Wonder how more of these Gibson will parade out, and what they’ll look like.
 
I think it's cool that they're looking into what they have in their archives. No it's not necessarily the guitar for me but someone will love it, and yes, it's not another bloody Les Paul! (and I have a killer Les Paul I love to bits)

One thing to bear in mind - I used to think Gretsch Duo Jets looked ridiculous. Then I tried one and loved the sound and feel and suddenly they don't look so bad any more!
 
I like P90s, but I'd rather Gibson had put these ones in a reproduction body of the original Byrdland with the venetian cutaway...

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I had a '73 Byrdland way back when. That was a long time ago. I swapped it for a '64 Gretsch 6120 which changed my life. I've been a Gretsch guy ever since. And speaking of break angle, the old school Duo Jets have an almost straight string pull thanks to the skinny headstocks.
 
I really like new shapes. Even though personally I'm not drawn to this one, it's cool Gibson's making a run of them. Headstock is pretty whack on it though lol.
 
I can picture this body style looking awesome worn by just about every female artist I know, but if I imagine myself (a dude) wearing it, it's all bad.
Maybe this is like the "skirt/kilt" situation paralleled in the guitar world?
 
dawson said:
I can picture this body style looking awesome worn by just about every female artist I know, but if I imagine myself (a dude) wearing it, it's all bad.
Maybe this is like the "skirt/kilt" situation paralleled in the guitar world?
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Nah, I'd rock that on stage way sooner than you'd ever see me playing a Strat or a Les Paul standard to be honest. I like the vibe it has going on, I'd just never spend anywhere near that on a guitar.

The more I look at it if it was one pickup, just a volume knob, had the more angular pick guard in the original pic, and throw a SG style vibrato on it with a long string pull (like a jazz master) I'd play that thing all day. Given it would basically be an SG junior, but it would look cooler IMHO.

Shit, do those things and give it a subtle offset and Gibson might have had a hit on their hands.
 
Matmosphere said:
Nah, I'd rock that on stage way sooner than you'd ever see me playing a Strat or a Les Paul standard to be honest. I like the vibe it has going on, I'd just never spend anywhere near that on a guitar.

The more I look at it if it was one pickup, just a volume knob, had the more angular pick guard in the original pic, and throw a SG style vibrato on it with a long string pull (like a jazz master) I'd play that thing all day. Given it would basically be an SG junior, but it would look cooler IMHO.

Shit, do those things and give it a subtle offset and Gibson might have had a hit on their hands.
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Yeah, no amount of polishing would make this worth $4,999.99.. but I do like where you're going with the aesthetic changes.

Now, when is somebody going to make an even less-popular guitar just for me that's just got a single humbucker in the NECK position..my main amps have always been super-bright-sounding Vox AC-30 and AC-15 so I hardly ever use a bridge-position pickup. Every once in awhile, I use both pickups together, but I'm using my neck pickup by itself 90% of the time..

Any other neck pickup people here?
..or is it really just me?
 
dawson said:
Yeah, no amount of polishing would make this worth $4,999.99.. but I do like where you're going with the aesthetic changes.

Now, when is somebody going to make an even less-popular guitar just for me that's just got a single humbucker in the NECK position..my main amps have always been super-bright-sounding Vox AC-30 and AC-15 so I hardly ever use a bridge-position pickup. Every once in awhile, I use both pickups together, but I'm using my neck pickup by itself 90% of the time..

Any other neck pickup people here?
..or is it really just me?
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I'm usually a bridge 90% of the time guy but the Charlie Christian neck pickup I've been playing all day is delicious. Barely touched the selector. Into my son of ben and blues deluxe. I actually haven't built any pedals in a while due to gear acquired disorder. Can't put the thing down.
 
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