Custom shop pre-aging guitars is getting out of hand

crochambeau · Post by **crochambeau** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 3:57 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHhKRqdtGs[/youtube]

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:14 pm

John Matrix · Post by **John Matrix** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:24 pm

so wasteful

crochambeau · Post by **crochambeau** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:43 pm

John Matrix wrote:so wasteful

Agreed. It's a deplorable misuse of resources; but it happened, so I'm glad I got to see it (would it have killed them to plug them into amps first?).

I actually almost started an argument with some commentator on that video, but life is too short to imagine stuffing someone's mouth full of dirty socks over the internet.

Bartimaeus · Post by **Bartimaeus** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:54 pm

Could've easily swapped in some cheap standard pickups and donated them to schools.... It reminds me of ab*rcrombie burning their unsold clothes to protect their brand image

MrNovember · Post by **MrNovember** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:11 pm

I have so many questions about this whole thing
1) if these guitars had to be destroyed, why drive an excavator over them? Why not throw them in a compactor or something more efficient?
2) how can a defective component make a guitar so dangerous that they have to destroy the entire guitar? There was nothing salvageable on these guitars? I would think the neck and body would be safe enough to reuse at the very least

ognoy · Post by **ognoy** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 2:07 pm

crochambeau wrote: would it have killed them to plug them into amps first?

First thing I though about when I saw this!

tremolo3 · Post by **tremolo3** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:06 pm

MrNovember wrote: 1) if these guitars had to be destroyed, why drive an excavator over them? Why not throw them in a compactor or something more efficient?

I will be Captain Obvious here, but... marketing?

MrNovember · Post by **MrNovember** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:21 pm

tremolo3 wrote:
MrNovember wrote: 1) if these guitars had to be destroyed, why drive an excavator over them? Why not throw them in a compactor or something more efficient?
I will be Captain Obvious here, but... marketing?

So the whole there's no such thing as bad publicity thing?

Dandolin · Post by **Dandolin** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:30 pm

Come on Gibson--re-paint the headstocks and start a new lawsuit myth.

Or, what Curtis said

prrrfakes · Post by **prrrfakes** » Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:10 pm

lol at the idea that selling these would've hurt the brand somehow.

halfwaytobedlam · Post by **halfwaytobedlam** » Sat Aug 10, 2019 5:19 am

prrrfakes wrote:lol at the idea that selling these would've hurt the brand somehow.

you mean selling these would've hurt the brand even more somehow

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