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Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:24 pm
by The Yeoman Ghost
losthighway wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:19 am
I have long marveled at this hilarious development. Should it have gone in the "All things 12 string thread", or maybe better yet in the "Compressing the dumb shit" thread, but I'll let the gear focused contingent take the piss out of this oddity and its guitar culture implications.
What world would we live in when the trail blazers of third wave ska punk, didn't have a custom, Fender, acoustic 12 string? I seriously think about this absurd marriage of factors and find it to be a sublime pairing of unlikely and stupid.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... AGEALw_wcB
Still not as dumb as the PRS Silver Sky. (The Silver Sky is dumb shit compressed to such a density that even the Tim Armstrong Hellcat can only circle it helplessly in orbit, held in the eternal sway of a natural phenomenon so extraordinary that only a force as transcendent as John Mayer’s ego could beget it.)
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:31 am
by tallchris
Kinda into this new Gibson design, the "Theodore". Like a Teisco tulip guitar w/ an Explorer headstock, basically.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 11:57 am
by penningtron
Into the body, not into the crooked bridge (they have intonatable wraparound bridges right?) and mismatched headstock, when the symmetrical Gibson 3+3 would have been perfect.
Gibson still gonna Gibson.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:13 pm
by Dr Tony Balls
Not into non-firebird Gibsons in the first place but this is so boring to me in the way that most Gibsons are boring to me. It's all just the same business on different shapes. COOL...you made a funny shaped Les Paul Special.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:47 pm
by Tom Wanderer
I thought it looked awesome. Like a unique, modern spin on the Tulip that would potentially be sturdier. I'm into the whole look to the point that I was like "shit, if you can get an Epi version for $250, I'd try it". Then I saw that they only made 318 of them and the price is 5k.
Fuck. Them.
Fuck them.
God that shit frustrates me.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:51 pm
by Tom Wanderer
Guess I'll just make my own, dickheads.
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 1:32 pm
by twelvepoint
Headstock sucks but I guess you could break it off and put something different on
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:31 am
by Dr Tony Balls
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:26 am
by tommy
Totally great. I'm hoping demand and scale will drastically reduces their pricing though. Did you see what the only tube they are currently manufacturing costs?
Re: Interesting Gear Developments Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:39 am
by Garth
tommy wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:26 am
Totally great. I'm hoping demand and scale will drastically reduces their pricing though. Did you see what the only tube they are currently manufacturing costs?
I was thinking this too but looking at other sites and their listed costs for 300B tubes of overseas origin are also quite high - not like $400 high, but still very high.
so...hopefully?
