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Like Harley, Gibson is one of a few brands that people tattoo on their body, like Harley, it will rise again. This Ch11 episode will mean absolutely nothing to guitar players. Some really bad decisions involving extending the brand into electronics and "Lifestyle" products. Failure to successfully innovate, just about every "innovation" has been met with outright derision by their faithful base (guitars with circuit board electronics, robot tuning). Bad relations with the retailers. Outright inconsistent quality, good ones are great, bad ones...geez.
I love Gibsons, own several, but I'd never buy one sight unseen. I would, have, buy Gibson Custom Shop guitars sight unseen.
I don't understand the company's thinking about many things. For example, inside an expensive Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop reissue is a pair of old fashioned "paper in oil" capacitors, known as bumble bee caps, as the original 1950's guitars had. Similar caps can be purchased as after market parts for, say $10-15 pair (or you can pay IIRC about $80 for the Gibson part). I imagine Gibson could buy these for cents. But the "bumble bee" caps inside expensive Custom Shop guitars are fakes. They are no old fashioned "vintage spec" PIO caps. Cut them open and inside is a little green run of the mill silicon capacitor. I don't get it.
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