Originally Posted by
(danny roberts @ April 09 2008, 16:30)
...when I have requests for necks, finger boards, tops, backs, anything that is important to building an instrument I can only sell it if we install it, I have to verify that the part is going on an original Gibson instrument.
Due to all of the copies that are being built these days, mandolins, banjo's, guitars and Dobro's Gibson policy does not let us sell parts.
You know, I was going to say that one of the factors influencing Gibson's decision not to sell instrument parts, might well be the prevalence of copies.
I didn't post that opinion, 'cause I was afraid I'd be accused by the G-loyalists of "Gibson bashing."
Now that Mr. Roberts has weighed in with a similar opinion, I feel safe from that accusation.
I have a '20's GB-3 Gibson guitar-banjo, that I had Bernie Lehmann here in Rochester make a replica 5-string neck for. #He added a "Gibson" logo and "diamonds and squares" inlays such as a "ball-bearing" RB-3 would have had. #It's still a Gibson banjo, in my opinion, but availability of Gibson parts does make the work of the copyist or counterfeiter easier.
And, with four authentic Gibson mandolins, plus guitars, banjo etc., I feel I'm a fully credentialed G-loyalist.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
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Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
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