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Originally posted by jim72911t
[B]Neat stuff. I would buy "copies" of Gibson and Fender stuff back in the late '80's simply because I couldn't afford the real stuff.
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Even if I could afford a high end Gibson, I'd never give Gibson a single penny of my money. Or Fender, for that matter.
They make fine guitars, sure, but they're both doing thier damnest to shut the entire guitar industry down.
Gibson sues PRS for making singlecut "LP copies". Gibson then turned around and sued Fender because they wanted to make "strat" and "tele" style guitar under the Valley Arts name, and Fender wanted to protect them. E'suze me??
Gibson pulled dealer website pictures of individual guitars. No more hunting for that perfectly flamed LP from Wildwood or Guitar Galleria.
Gibson lost about a large percentage of it's dealers due to new "remain a dealer" demands.
Fender shut down muplitple small builders.
Dimarzio trademarked the double-cream humbucker in the 1970's. Now they're going for another colour. This affects me personally.
Trying to trademark designs that have been unprotected by trademark for 50+ years. Trademarking after the fact.
PRS recently (temporarily) won the Gibson lawsuit and can immediately resume singlecut production and shipping.
Please, support your local and small builders. Our lives depend on guitar players.
For unmatched LP and strat style guitars, I suggest checking our places like...
http://www.usacustomguitars.com
http://www.heatleyguitars.com
http://www.shamray.net
there are loads of them people never even heard of.