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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:54 pm
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ilovegibsons wrote:
wez jokin wiv ya.
We almost all own something strat, tele or copy. Fenders are just as good as Gibsons, and we were all having a little joke.
Feel free to come and hang in the Gibson lounge sometime!


Already did. I have all of one post. In fact I can't even remember what my forum name is over there.


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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:31 pm
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this is what we, as strong fender fans, should not care about. everyone just slow down and chillax. there is no war, we are united as one as guitar players. perhaps playin an instrument will help :D :D

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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:15 pm
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Both companies have a long history of making incredible musical instruments. I'm sure that many of us here have examples of Gibson and Fenders; after all, GAS has no boundaries! I've been on the Epiphone, Gibson, and mylespaul forums for a long time...my first guitar was a 1996 Epi Les Paul which has Gibson zebra 57 Classic/Classic Plus pickups..great tone, solid guitar which I am putting up for sale on Craigslist. I have my 2006 American Strat, and now a 2008 Gibson CS-336.
My son's first guitar was a 2005 amber Highway One HSS which he loves. I got him a 57 Vintage Hotrod last year which he is selling because he too always was jonesing for a 336, which he got recently.
To have the usual Gibson vs Fender thread is like being over the Subaru websites (I'm there also) where they have the STI vs Evo flamewars....useless, useless, useless.

If you have both, enjoy both.
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2008 CS336, 1996 Epi Les Paul, 2007 57 Vintage Hot Rod, 2006 American Strat
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:26 pm
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stratmastah! wrote:
this is what we, as strong fender fans, should not care about. everyone just slow down and chillax. there is no war, we are united as one as guitar players. perhaps playin an instrument will help :D :D


How about for our next move, we throw stones at all the non-dunlop pick people!

What kind of guitar stand do you use???? Let's throw down. BOY!


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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:22 pm
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mclmk8d wrote:
Both companies have a long history of making incredible musical instruments. I'm sure that many of us here have examples of Gibson and Fenders; after all, GAS has no boundaries!

If you have both, enjoy both.



I have both!

'07 LP Std.
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'83 Ebony Elite
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and my newest axe... the American Mahogany Strat :D

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I love all my guitars.... Can't we all just get along? :)


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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:00 pm
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Fenders, they have a way of making you go clean no matter what brand you add to your collection.
Thats why I ended up putting a low output pickup into my 85 LP Studio's neck position.
The stock pickup just drove me crazy for years, after replacing it, the same Gibson players have come up with several ways to tweak the sound.
That is the one guitar that in spite of its weight and discomfort, that particular hunk of wood was worth buying.

Otherwise, I've always preferred Strats;
1. 3 position switches will give you three different solid sounds.
2. 5 position switches will let you quack.
I wish there was a practical way to boost it, Brian May has a way of exploiting that particularly evil tonality.
3. An extension to my Classical background, I can do volume swells with my pinky.
4. A trem that a tightwad like me can love.
A trem can cost as little as $25 online.
Trem as in fulcrum.
The other guys are victims, bigsby's are so massive and ugly that they take over a guitar's identity.
There is no non-fulcrum trem that will cost you less than $150 online.
Who cares if they can supposedly never loose their tuning, having loose strings that thunk and rattle is pathetic.

After many strats bought, modified and either sold or given away over the years;
1. I can usually find a decent guitar out of a dozen.
2. Brand names don't mean squat if they can't guarantee that every last guitar is exceptional.
Otherwise, Fender's Stratocaster is unequalled as the most copied design in the world, and of course, you can get parts in Timbuktu.
3. Being too fanatical about things is a costly proposition;
Kinman sells pickups for as much as $200 a piece.
First they sold brass, now they sell $150 steel trem blocks, depleted uranium is even denser, after that, you can either glow in the dark or poison yourself with Lead.
4. After more than 30 years with the Strat, most of them very cheaply acquired, there is but one conclusion about that Strat sitting at your local music store;
it either sounds good or it doesn't.
That includes some that were laminated mahogany.
One that was a Korean neck-through-body design that only cost $134 w/case(1989).
Even one that had a body that I discovered that was made of compressed cardboard, I've got pictures of most of them.


Currently, I have the following;
1. 1985 Gibson Les Paul Studio w/ one PAF clone rated @200Mv.
That's one guitar you never want to strip and hand finish.
This baby stays home.

2. My main axe;
Allparts Swamp Ash Body w/CBS neck-shaved, 220 Mv humbucker, 250+Mv humbucker, V-T-T, Black pickguard, Metal pickup covers, Clearkote hand painted, hand-rubbed finish.
I got lucky, its about the best strat I've ever played-tonewise, it sounds good clean or distorted, no matter what genre.

3. Squier Bullet neck, Squier Strat Black body, white pickguard.
One Carvin m-22 multipole humbucker originally bought for handmade Cuatro.
Its got a decent sound, its loaned out, like others over the years...


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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:56 pm
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Thanks to this thread I have an account at Gibby and Epi. I actually like the Epiphone Forum better, but the Gibson Lounge is kinda cool. I like Fender best, of course, cause The Regulars, The Look, and The Strats! (and Teles and P's and j's and all)

Neither forum has enough Smilies For Me :shock: 8) :shock: :roll: ...... :oops: :cry: :x :P :mrgreen: :|

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