deytookerjaabs
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the original builders and designers of the 59 LP are all dead (probably) so its just a big corporation that has changed hands several times that has the right to build these replicas.
That's what it was in the 50's...owned by a big ass conglomerate manufacturer of mass produced instruments. Orville built like 10 instruments a year, carved from hand and the young guys who were there in the 50's witness the older workers wax poetic about the good ole 20's-30's! :hee Think about for just a minute...the company went from a one man operation to shipping out 35,000 units/instruments a year by 1959.
In the 50's/60's Gibson had pressure from the top to continue to increase market share, expand the company big time, increase quota's, etc etc, which they did.
No one ever carved a 'burst from hand in the 50's paying exacting detail to every inch of the guitar, that's stupid and the guitars themselves prove otherwise as does the history on record. Every detail of the old guitars is all over the place and if any logical assumption can be made (on the basis of "holy grail" status) it's that mass manufacture of guitars works pretty damn well.
Every replica builder & boutique company that pretends it doesn't do replicas (which is a joke) simply categorizes certain nuances that they feel makes a superior guitar. And, for every one of those silly rules they make....there are 50's Gibsons out there which break those rules which I'm sure sound just fine & dandy. After all, what they're trying to replicate is something a bunch of country boys with little to no experience built by using Henry Ford styled work specific stations....you know..an assembly line, not a Ferrari, not a Rolex, not a Van Gogh, Gibson was the biggest instrument company in the world operating out of a huge factory employing at least 500+ people on the union roster with many more temps.
There's this absolutely gross penchant for sycophantry underlying all the ridiculous historical revisionism & tone worship. Get a guitar you like and be your own man, make your own ****ing rules.