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On Aug 4, 11:19 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. LLC"
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On Aug 4, 11:00 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
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Yup, I had been doing some reading about it, never saw one though. I
was a little doubtful at first but coming from Gibson, I figured they
would probably do a good job.. Hey Dick, where was it made.? Just
curious...

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All real Gibson's are made in the USA. The primary plant for solid
bodied
electrics is in Nashville, TN. They build acoustics somewhere in
Montana.

Gibson also owns several other guitar brands including Epiphone. These
are
lower cost guitars, similar to the Gibson line, but are manufactured in
several countries, including the US, Japan, Korea and China. Similar
arrangement to Fender's "Squire" Strat which is manufactured in, I
think,
Korea.

Eisboch

Fender and Martin make some in Mexico to iirc.. My Martin was made in
Mexico. Nice to have an American made Guitar..

They sell for about a 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost of the American made
guitar. Most guitar players can tell the difference between the
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Not according to the guitar players on several groups I am active in..
I mean they know which guitars are made here and there, but the
equipment, training, and production tolerances are the same for the
big vendors in China, Mexico, as in the US.. .

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He may be referring to the unauthorized "copy-cat" versions of name brand
guitars built mostly in Japan and China, but elsewhere as well. Gibson
successfully sued one of them in Japan. Interestingly, the headstock shape
is usually the patented item of a guitar. Gibson won the lawsuit because
the imitator not only copied the style, shape and color of the Les Paul
standard, they also copied the "open book" headstock shape.


Eisboch