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gibsons or fenders
Poll ended at Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:28 am
fender 78%  78%  [ 35 ]
gibson 18%  18%  [ 8 ]
something else 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 45
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Post subject: gibsons or fenders
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:28 am
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i got a gibson les paul and brought it to a gig in manchester... on the first couple of chords i played the bridge came of :evil: :evil: .... so i got a strat last month and i am very impressed with it!!! telecaster are good too but i like the startocaster design better!!! good job fender!!!!!!!! :D :D


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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:55 am
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Not a gibson guy... Fender has good quality control these days.
But as it goes with any manufacturing... somehow there's always a lemon
thrown in the apple bucket.
Speaking of that...
Comparing fender to gibson is kinda like apples & oranges.

That poll is going to be fender here. lol

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Post subject: Re: gibsons or fenders
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:20 pm
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Nigs wrote:
i got a gibson les paul and brought it to a gig in manchester... on the first couple of chords i played the bridge came off


Wow. Did those skinny little mouting screws break? Or did it just pull out of the wood? I need to know!!!!

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BOTH -- I lean on my ultra-sweet '76 Gibson SG (w/ 500T & 496R humbuckers) as much as I do my S/S/S Strat. Between those two guitars, the amount of tonal possibilities are staggering.

Even though I cut my teeth on Gibsons, I am fairly unimpressed with Gibson guitars of late. The new Gibson SGs I have played pale to my '76, and I do not like the budget Les Pauls (Epi, Studio, etc.) I am not flaming anyone; that is just my observation. The Gibson Les Paul Standards they make now, along with many older Les Pauls are nice, but really expensive. It is a credit to Fender the great guitars they sell at the low price point. Really.


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I really feel that Fender's have better quality and are more versitile.


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Welcome to the Forum.

I'm curious as to how the bridge just fell off.

I'm a Fender and a Gibson guy.

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Depends on what you're playing. I play blues and funk, so I find that there's nothing like a good strat for clean and tight intricate rhythms and biting 'stank' producing searing blues solos. What I've found is that I can work the Eq and get Gibson like tones out of my strat, but not the other way around....... Strat is a more versatile instrument, cost a lot less money, nott too heavy, and are damn near indestructable. I've had friends drop their LPs and those fragile SGs and crack the headstocks :shock: . I've dropped my strat several times (prior to my strap locks!). The only issues I have are a few dings and a slightly bent 5-way switch. Retune and keep on jamming!!!! :lol:


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Play3r wrote:
I really feel that Fender's have better quality and are more versitile.


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Post subject: Re: gibsons or fenders
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:44 am
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orvilleowner wrote:
Nigs wrote:
i got a gibson les paul and brought it to a gig in manchester... on the first couple of chords i played the bridge came off


Wow. Did those skinny little mouting screws break? Or did it just pull out of the wood? I need to know!!!!


it completly came out of the wood and the guys couldnt get it back in!!


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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:18 am
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it completly came out of the wood and the guys couldnt get it back in!!


What guys?

A good luthier should be able to repair it. If it didn't have metal studs in the body, you could switch to that type of tuneomatic bridge. A straightforward job, IMO.

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My main guitar is a strat but I use my gibson flying v alot to but I have to say that I prefer the strat just because you can get so more different sounds from it.


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Post subject: why compare?
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:56 pm
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i got two gibson les pauls and a couple of strats, different tools for different jobs, i cant compare i love em both! im not a guitar snob, just wish every budding guitar player had at least one on them.


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Why no "BOTH" as a choice??????


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My #1 is a strat, my #2 is an SG and I play teles and LPs as needed along with a couple other brands. I voted Gibson just to be different (and if you posted this in the Gibson forums you'd get Gibson for the majority answer except I'd have voted Fender, and you'd have gotten enough flame to violate most of the burn bans here around here). They're different tools for different things, but the Strat fits what I like to hear.


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I just got back from rehearsal, my other guitar player plays an SG which is nice, but he just keep raving about my Clapton strat say damn is there any tone you cant get with that thing??? He was envying me.. I had to laugh and tell him nothing tops a good ol' strat... I think Gibson are nice but to me it's one deminsional....but it's all in how you play it..with a strat I can strum it like an acoustic guitar and it's perfect...so my vote goes to the obvious STRATOCASTERS!!!!!!


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