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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:40 am
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It wont be a big reat because there are to many purist in both fender and gibson camps

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IDoes anyone think Fender will participate in Gibson's invitation to trade a few jabs in the media?


I don't believe they ever have before and I don't see any reason to start now. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen. Epiphone came out with a guitar that was a drop dead copy of a Strat. The text underneath the picture said something like "we've taught this old dog some new tricks". Old dog?! I don't understand why a venerable and respected company like Gibson would stoop so low as to use tactics like these.

Maybe I'm just too sensitive (though I've never been accused of that before). I wonder if anyone is chuckling in Scottsdale?


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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:58 pm
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There's a lot of folks with too many dollars and not enough sense.


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stratmansteve wrote:
btwisilwy wrote:
IDoes anyone think Fender will participate in Gibson's invitation to trade a few jabs in the media?


I don't believe they ever have before and I don't see any reason to start now. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen. Epiphone came out with a guitar that was a drop dead copy of a Strat. The text underneath the picture said something like "we've taught this old dog some new tricks". Old dog?! I don't understand why a venerable and respected company like Gibson would stoop so low as to use tactics like these.

Maybe I'm just too sensitive (though I've never been accused of that before). I wonder if anyone is chuckling in Scottsdale?


Years ago Epi had a ad. of a LP copy saying ''powerfull humbuckers
instead of weak single coils and angled headstock for better sustain
instead off straight string pull like on a Fender headstock (less sustain)''.
Stupid,stupid,stupid. :roll:

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:29 pm
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This is not anything like the VG Strat, which is really pretty cool and changes from one guitar to another, one tuning to another, with the only penalty that its a computer-altered signal when not a Strat.

The Gibson's not running a Roland kind of computer signal at all. It's robotically tuning itself and signalling you about intonation, stringing it up, etc. Wow, all that complexity, sensitive electronics, having an on-board battery to run down that requires a 90 minute charge, just for a self-tuning guitar? I've got a Seiko digital tuner that puts me right on every time. One cool feature is the intonation fix, because that's important. My Strat came with ear-perfect intonation out of the box.


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well i got one the guitar is nice and you can tune in under 20 seconds perfectly to any of the tunings pretty slick i tune my other guitars to it cause its easier than the cromatics it was a gift from my wonderful wife for christmas who supports my guitar addiction


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My wife saw the Robot LP on the internet and asked me what I thought. I told her that turning (standard, at least) is not a problem. And if I wanted to play with alternate tunings bad enough that I'd get a VG Strat instead.

Sure enough, this Christmas Santa brought me a VG Strat! I do love that woman.


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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:30 pm
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Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? That's what I always thought. I think it'd be pretty cool to have a guitar that tunes itself. They had that other one that somebody mentioned, it has individual pickups for each string and a fiber optic output jack alongside the standard 1/4 inch jack. A little over the top, maybe?


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