PSA - Fancy Assed Firebird - $2850

[killerteddybear]

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/msg/d/morgan-hill-gibson-firebird-guitar-of/7261717572.html

[cmatthes]

Yuck.

[killerteddybear]

Just now, cmatthes said:

Yuck.

But the acoustic voice!

[RobB]

I made a cutting board in high school wood shop that looked just like that. I got a B-.

Later, as an experiment, I bolted on a junked Teisco neck. The experiment failed...

[LucSulla]

That's one fucked up looking table.  The leaf doesn't even match. 

[79Sunburst]

I like neck through body guitars though. Just not that one. 

[Jorge]

If I could not be reborn as Hendrix or as Roger Federer, I wish I were as Director of Strategy at Gibson.

[Steve Haynie]

The pickguard should be made of wood. 

[kizanski]

1 hour ago, Steve Haynie said:

The pickguard should be made of wood. 

...and then burn the whole guitar.

[Biz Prof]

Love the look of FBs.  Love the look of Corvettes, too.  That FB is the guitar equivalent of a C3 Corvette with body panels of contrasting colors and with both doors in primer gray.  A waste of effort, IMHO.

ETA:  In keeping with the FB theme, there's this analog:

[Menehune]

1 hour ago, Biz Prof said:

Love the look of FBs.  Love the look of Corvettes, too.  That FB is the guitar equivalent of a C3 Corvette with body panels of contrasting colors and with both doors in primer gray.  A waste of effort, IMHO.

ETA:  In keeping with the FB theme, there's this analog:

Except that's now A Look. Been to a car show lately?

[tbonesullivan]

I remember the "Guitar of the Week" series. Some were pretty nice. But not $2850 nice after that long, especially when it looks like butt.

Now, if they had put in some maple laminates in the neck, then it might look a lot better, in an Alembic kind of way. But like this? does nothing for me. Even with a translucent finish, it would still be pretty ugly.

[topekatj]

Did I miss the announcement that this is officially Ugly Firebird Week, 2021?