WELCOME TO GIBSON-VILLE

toomanycats · Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:26 am

Actually, North Andover, Massachusetts.

But, c'mon, you can't tell me every guitar player who drives into that town isn't thinking the same thing I'm thinking.

Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:34 am

I know, I know, "Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth & remove all doubt" (Mark Twain), but I don't get it...

toomanycats · Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:51 am

Notice how this sign is slightly imperfect. The town picked it up as a b-stock. The pole is stable.

tonebender · Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:59 pm

It was years ago that I notice my hair was also my favorite guitar. I call it "The Gibson". Scooby approves.

Chocol8 · Tue Nov 14, 2023 7:58 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:26 am But, c'mon, you can't tell me every guitar player who drives into that town isn't thinking the same thing I'm thinking.

Were you thinking, "I can't believe Gibson hasn't sued these guys yet!"?

Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:30 pm

toomanycats wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:51 am Notice how this sign is slightly imperfect. The town picked it up as a b-stock. The pole is stable.

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That sign looks like an Agile headstock.

I just noticed after all these years that the left-handed Agile headstock top edge is a mirror image of the right-handed one. I wonder why a right-handed headstock wasn't used to reduce the cost. I doubt many would even pick up on that, I didn't until just now. Rickenbacker doesn't bother on their tailpieces, the "R" is upside down on left-handed models...

Chocol8 · Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:58 am

Claremont is the town Rondo moved to when they left NJ. I assume the sign is a tribute to Agile guitars.

As for the lefty headstock, I don't think it adds much if any cost to have both these days. Just flip the CAD drawing so you have left and right versions to feed the CNC machine.

Are there lefty truss rod covers for the ones with model numbers on them? I never noticed!

toomanycats · Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:19 pm

Chocol8 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:58 am Claremont is the town Rondo moved to when they left NJ. I assume the sign is a tribute to Agile guitars.

As for the lefty headstock, I don't think it adds much if any cost to have both these days. Just flip the CAD drawing so you have left and right versions to feed the CNC machine.

Are there lefty truss rod covers for the ones with model numbers on them? I never noticed!

Bingo! I knew some astute AGFer would get it. Also notice the date of the towns establishment, "3100."

Full disclosure: I made up that Agile Claremont sign. Did some of you guys actually think it was real?

Now the Gibson headstock looking sign for North Andover, that is real, and yeah . . . why doesn't Gibson sue them?!?!

tonebender · Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:35 am

That Claremont sign would not hold resale value on the used sign market.

Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:59 pm

tobijohn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:30 pm ...Rickenbacker doesn't bother on their tailpieces, the "R" is upside down on left-handed models...

I just noticed that my Monogram MR820-G which is Chinese copy of a Rick 620 that's made by a Japanese company for the Japanese market has the R on the tailpiece with the correct orientation:

tonebender · Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:54 am

That is pretty surprising for Rickenbacker, especially knowing the Chickenbacker gets it right (or left if I may).

Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:14 am

tonebender wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:54 am That is pretty surprising for Rickenbacker, especially knowing the Chickenbacker gets it right (or left if I may).

I really don't like the fact that there's a Rickenbacker R logo on a guitar that isn't one (the TRC logo says "Monogram"). The few times I've gone to Ali Express for a model that didn't have a lefty version, I insisted on no logo, no serial number and no fake "made in USA" (in the case of a Gibson). I've got a generic short trapeze tailpiece to replace that one, just have to find the time...