Mechanical Birds wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:47 am
Totally infuriating to me that this is an inevitability with
every Gibson guitar, they realized this and came up with a solution that we know works and doesn’t change the feeling/sound/playing of whatever the guitar is, but some fuckin dads complained about it being a change and big surprise, Gibson drops the objectively good positive feature pretty much all together.
What a dumb, ridiculous, stupid fucking company.
I have to tell you that as a Norlin era aficionado, I look at those guitars pretty frequently. There are a good number of them out there that had headstock repairs and from what I can deduce- very non-scientific- that the volute didn't really offer all that much more protection.
I would still prefer it if they did something, though, and the volute is actually just fine, you'd never notice it. But they could also just make three or more piece necks, there's really no reason it needs to be made out of one piece of wood.
And of course the scarf joint would help a lot.
But don't blame Gibson for this, because Gibson periodically tries to address shortcomings on their guitars and it costs them heavily because the guitar buying world is slightly more conservative than the people who ran the Salem witch trials and about as tolerant of change.
That period that Gibson made stronger necks? That almost put them out of business entirely. The only reason that there is a Gibson now is because someone bought the failing company that tried to be innovative for peanuts, and revived it with the promise that they would only make the guitars like they always had, flaws and all.
Every time Gibson and any other guitar maker innovates, it quickly becomes a matter of survival. Most of them don't survive. Just ask Parker, and Ovation, and a whole lot more.
Remember the Arch Deluxe.
The problem isn't Gibson, the problem is us.
Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.