My friendly guitar mavin told me about this today.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/may/1 ... rt-supply/

For some reason I never made the connection

John.E

Not a good year for gibson, first the FBI come and take all their rosewood away because they thought it was illegal and now the plants flooded. Whats next?

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My deepest sympathies.. will not be offered

Maybe they will introduce a new guitar model that will be hated only to have to cancel and scrap it before it hits market?

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This just in - floating guitars! With propeller tuners

I have no doubt that Gibson will be back to making one best guitar brands on the market before long.

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Oh, that's a given. Gibson guitars are among the best for a reason. Just poking a bit of fun, that's all

Not to good for the folks out of work until they get back into production again.

Now they'll be even more over priced.

Well they say that "Water-Treated" wood provides the Holy Grail of tone

And by they I mean Gibson ads in a few months

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Hey John E. this is a little offtopic but I couldn't help but notice that's the knox news page, do you live around here bud

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Hi Mike,
I googled Gibson factory flood and that's the page I chose from the respones. I'm a New Yorker, not to far from ZZ Doc and Straycat.

Cheers,
John.E

What makes something overpriced? The type of construction used to make a set neck guitar is much more labor intensive then a bolt on.

You don't hear many people who buy Gibson's say they are overpriced.

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Thats suprising

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riley

oK I see the point you're trying to make and may/may not agree BUT...

I imagine if you thought it was overpriced you probably wouldn't buy it. So this is kind of a meaningless statement.