by Ice-9 » 21 Feb 2018, 17:32
A friend and I went to try some Les Paul's last weekend as he fancied buying one, the guy in the music shop mentioned Gibson going bankrupt and I laughed it off as ridiculous. The very next day I read on the net it might be happening. So my apologies to this salesman..
What seems to be happening is that the bonds that large business like Gibson use to finance the company are about to mature and that means they have to pay what is due and re finance, it is quite common business practice and hopefully they will have it all sorted by the time re financing is due.
On the other hand all the Les Paul guitars we tried were crap, I was so surprised that they leave the factory as bad as ALL these examples were. These were all 2018 models and every guitars pickup toggle switch did not work properly being crackly and some having a selection not working at all,(this was even on the 5k custom models). The action was so high they were unplayable, only one example felt reasonable to play. Ok most of the issues were just the need for a decent setup, but when I walk into a shop and intent to spend my friends £2.5k on a guitar I do expect the guitar to be set up and reasonably in tune. You could say that the shop should set these guitars up but I think they should all be decent direct from the factory at this price tag.
No wonder Gibson are going out of business.
I still want a Les Paul myself in all honesty, but I will find an older used one that isn't the crap they are churning out now.
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