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Fast forward 10 years and hundreds of them now have "unsafe components"??? That tech was a lot worse than we feared! I assume any FB-X's they did sell are now also unsafe. This vid must be a significant proportion of the whole productions run. is a product recall needed, or did they not actually sell any to recall?
Does anyone else think it was intended to be seen as a new CEO making a point about one of the last CEO's most questionable releases?
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Gibson have taken a responsible course of action that could potentially save hundreds of lives.
Its a disgusting practice
The Gibson film has simply highlighted to some guitarists who were probably unaware, something that is endemic in all industries.
Stuff that is destroyed can be written off against tax.
There are easier and quicker ways to get rid of guitars that are un-salvageable. Lining them up and crushing them with heavy machinery was absolutely intended as a PR stunt, that they obviously changed their minds about at the time.
The best course of action would have been to hold their hands up/Blame Henry and make a charitable donation/gesture of some sort.
When electronics are old fashioned they go into the skip. Go to your local dump and see the big piles of old computers there.
It is obviously cheaper to scrap that old Firebird X crap completely and build new models, some of which will be going to good causes.
The electronics are obviously of no use so you are just left with wood.
Think how much wood is burnt by people with their trendy wood burning stoves nowadays.
I agree this was a silly piece of theatre, and a bandsaw would have been more dignified but I really can’’t think much content was genuinely re-usable, and while I’m sure you could get something playable (and at least interesting) out of them after stripping the dubious electronics and swapping out the robo-tuners I can absolutely see why they wouldn’t want to run the risk of a lash-up like that escaping into the wild in any form identifiable with the Gibson brand. Mind you Fender have form for salvaging aborted products with things like the Swinger/Musiclander/Arrow and Custom/Maverick so maybe with sufficient imagination and a good enough poker face...