Chapman Guitars at NAMM

p90fool

wizbit81 said:

Budgie that was mild. Absolutely ridiculous situation. 
Plectrum old chap, I read the first 6 pages and then the last two before making my comment, I also just scanned another couple in the middle and still haven't seen so if you already know and could spare a min to reiterate it would be appreciated. I'm not going to read line by line 13 pages of comments hunting for it.

Well as Plectrum pointed out, it looks like it's the Sims workshop. Mind you, that's only been uncovered by detective work, so your point still stands. 

bingefeller

wizbit81 said:

Budgie that was mild. Absolutely ridiculous situation. 
Plectrum old chap, I read the first 6 pages and then the last two before making my comment, I also just scanned another couple in the middle and still haven't seen so if you already know and could spare a min to reiterate it would be appreciated. I'm not going to read line by line 13 pages of comments hunting for it.

The guitar was designed by Jonny Jaffa from Belfast.  He's an architect and product designer i.e. he designs lights and tables.. 

www.jonnyjaffa.com

Musicman20

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Whitecat

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

thegummy

Whitecat said:

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

I was shocked when I found out that music shops just get mystery shipments from Gibson and they don't know which models they'll get.

They're basically abusing their position as a brand that people will always demand because of its history to have business practices that no-one would tolerate otherwise.

tony99

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

I was shocked when I found out that music shops just get mystery shipments from Gibson and they don't know which models they'll get.

They're basically abusing their position as a brand that people will always demand because of its history to have business practices that no-one would tolerate otherwise.

surely they know the models, I thought they just couldn't pick the actual specific guitars

Lebarque

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

They gave us Trump. We give them Chapman.

darthed1981

aLebarque said:

They gave us Trump. We give them Chapman.

Careful, or Rob will join theFretboard and correct us all in a "very loving way"...

digitalscream

darthed1981 said:

aLebarque said:

They gave us Trump. We give them Chapman.

Careful, or Rob will join theFretboard and correct us all in a "very loving way"...

I don't think we need to worry about that. He doesn't even use the forum that has his name on it :P

Bluebeard

@skunkwerx - I also have an Indonesian PRS Tremonti SE Standard and the switch on mine went as well. It often cut out when I went to the neck pickup. Apart from that it was a great guitar for the money

crunchman

Bluebeard said:

@skunkwerx - I also have an Indonesian PRS Tremonti SE Standard and the switch on mine went as well. It often cut out when I went to the neck pickup. Apart from that it was a great guitar for the money

Those switches can be a problem on anything by their design.  I had to replace the switch on a new Gibson when it was around 6 months old.

skunkwerx

crunchman said:

Bluebeard said:

@skunkwerx - I also have an Indonesian PRS Tremonti SE Standard and the switch on mine went as well. It often cut out when I went to the neck pickup. Apart from that it was a great guitar for the money

Those switches can be a problem on anything by their design.  I had to replace the switch on a new Gibson when it was around 6 months old.

Aye overall its a great guitar.

Musicman20

By the way, how hard is it to replace one of those switches?

steer

5 minute job if you can use a soldering iron. 

thegummy

tony99 said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

I was shocked when I found out that music shops just get mystery shipments from Gibson and they don't know which models they'll get.

They're basically abusing their position as a brand that people will always demand because of its history to have business practices that no-one would tolerate otherwise.

surely they know the models, I thought they just couldn't pick the actual specific guitars

I asked guitar guitar when they were getting the Tribute back in stock and they said there's an order from Gibson coming but they don't actually know what guitars they'll get they just have to wait and open it

tony99

thegummy said:

tony99 said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

I was shocked when I found out that music shops just get mystery shipments from Gibson and they don't know which models they'll get.

They're basically abusing their position as a brand that people will always demand because of its history to have business practices that no-one would tolerate otherwise.

surely they know the models, I thought they just couldn't pick the actual specific guitars

I asked guitar guitar when they were getting the Tribute back in stock and they said there's an order from Gibson coming but they don't actually know what guitars they'll get they just have to wait and open it

that's outrageous, why on earth would they agree to something like that

could end up with 150 left hand explorers

Bridgehouse

tony99 said:

could end up with 150 left hand explorers

Why would someone ship them a job lot of 70s DJs?

tony99

Bridgehouse said:

tony99 said:

could end up with 150 left hand explorers

Why would someone ship them a job lot of 70s DJs?

thegummy

tony99 said:

thegummy said:

tony99 said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

Musicman20 said:

Seems the Chapman crew have been busy, and now they are moving to bigger outlets in the USA - Guitar Centre.

I wonder if they will still support the smaller stores like they did before? I presume so.

Strange how the USA prices, although tax needs to be added, seem to be (on the face of it) cheaper than UK prices....

Probably just order volume dictating lower prices. If they're in every Guitar Center that's a hell of a lot more guitars than can be brought into the UK at once.

Anyway, who knows - maybe they'll start quarter-million dollar inventory buy-ins, no cherry picking, you take what you are shipped... then robot tuners... then maybe Chappers will acquire a TV manufacturing company... is Magnavox or Zenith available?

I was shocked when I found out that music shops just get mystery shipments from Gibson and they don't know which models they'll get.

They're basically abusing their position as a brand that people will always demand because of its history to have business practices that no-one would tolerate otherwise.

surely they know the models, I thought they just couldn't pick the actual specific guitars

I asked guitar guitar when they were getting the Tribute back in stock and they said there's an order from Gibson coming but they don't actually know what guitars they'll get they just have to wait and open it

that's outrageous, why on earth would they agree to something like that

could end up with 150 left hand explorers

I think the reason they agree is because the Gibson brand is so powerful and people will always want to buy them that a music shop would be really missing out if they refused to stock Gibson.

I'd imagine if they were shipped something ludicrous like your example they might not buy again but obviously Gibson are giving them a reasonable variety.

Musicman20

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