Gibson polymer body

tomjax

This is a first for me, a Gibson with an Ovation style polymer body. Never knew they'd been playing around with this idea:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176056555835?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2Kavy7ytQ9W&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=J_Q7ch0WT7O&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Tannin

Run away little boy run away!

Damn it, I had forgotten all about those things! Now my eyes hurt. 

Yes, since you prod my memory into reluctant life, I remember them being discussed before. The consensus view was that they were one of those spectacularly bad products which blighted Gibson's worst years. I am entirely ready to believe that.

One for Harry7 to collect, I think. But not at that price. Knock a zero off and it would make some good 90s tat for his ratty collection of weird and not-very-wonderful guitars.

ICBM

Nor me.

Almost hard to believe it’s genuine - although there do appear to be others. The preamp is a lowest-cost Belcat piece of crap the same as out of something like a Westfield, although it may be a replacement - the other ones I found all appear to have the equally dreadful Epiphonic V system… not exactly a hint that they were trying to make something good, really! Apart from one which has a Fishman Presys, but I think that’s newer than 1991 and physically larger, so likely to be a retro-fit as well.

Headstock repair confirms it’s a real Gibson though .

Stuckfast

Inevitably, it's listed by the clowns at Music Outlet Shop. Do they actually sell anything, ever? And how come literally everything they list is broken, filthy or incomplete, or all of the above?