i've been thinking for a little while now that FMIC and Gibson are in the process of turning into each other. Gibson has been improving the quality control across the product lines, adding affordable Gibsons including SGs and Les Paul Studios for less than $1000, and doing wonderful things with special models in the Epiphone line; meanwhile FMIC is going more and more into excessively expensive Custom Shop guitars, stupid overpriced signature models, and Frankenguitars like the Pawn Shop series that are as ill-advised as some of the uglier Gibbies of recent years, and shifting more production to Asia in order to Squier-ize the Gretsch nameplate with more cheap Chinese bolt-neck solidbodies and belatedly monetize their Eddie Van Halen deal by producing affordable EVH guitars offshore while also pushing the better Squier guitars into direct competition with Fender's lower-end models. Gibson appears to have learned from the last decade's mistakes; Fender seems bent on repeating Gibson's errors.
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FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
Gearmond wrote:eh, some of the frankenguitars are pretty good.
but personally i'd rather see fender pups on a gibson body than buckers on a strat, aka the blacktops
Fender did try in a way this in the 90's which the set neck strat but at the time it didn't take... Personally though I like buckers on fenders.. but the blacktops totally disinterest me... And I want to a see a triple bucker something! like a tele! that would be cool: three buckers [like Rio G tall boys] each with a coil cut switch, that would be hot
Also at least fender has yet to do to SWR what Gibson did to Trace...
Gearmond wrote:i wanna have a LP with strat pickups and a jag trem.
I support this idea as long as you go with a on off for each pup instead of the fucking 5way
Actually When my electra worked [head came off too many times..] for the neck pup I took two strat pups put them in the ring and wired them on a 3 way mini toggle
Gah... I need to find a replacement neck one of these days... I still miss that damn thing...
