Tommy Tourbus
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To be honest BRW is fine and all but I wouldn't pay a huge markup for it. I have 2 guitars with it, and my guitars with IRW sound just as good, so I don't see the benefit. I do see the benefit of Korina, as it is a sweet sounding tonewood that really is special and sits in my collection nicely, and that's why I ponied up for the Korina V. In terms of Rosewood, the main thing to me is that it's dark and uniform as that's what I happen to be picky about and is what floats my particular boat. I'd rather have a dark IRW board than a light or even medium shade BRW one. But that's just me. Some people love the BRW over IRW every time and more power to them.
I've fetishized the '58 V's for so long that to be getting one of these, and in a replica case even, is making me pinch myself LOL as dumb as that sounds. I wasn't planning on it at first, but I was seduced by their in-stock availability on various dealers sites, and I realized I'd be kicking myself in a couple years if I hadn't grabbed one, as I'm guessing Gibson Custom won't be producing them indefinitely.
In terms of pricing what I really didn't get was when Gibson was doing '58 Historic V's in mahogany and charging a huge markup over all their other Historic models, something like $8-9k was it? Now THAT was really lame
I've fetishized the '58 V's for so long that to be getting one of these, and in a replica case even, is making me pinch myself LOL as dumb as that sounds. I wasn't planning on it at first, but I was seduced by their in-stock availability on various dealers sites, and I realized I'd be kicking myself in a couple years if I hadn't grabbed one, as I'm guessing Gibson Custom won't be producing them indefinitely.
In terms of pricing what I really didn't get was when Gibson was doing '58 Historic V's in mahogany and charging a huge markup over all their other Historic models, something like $8-9k was it? Now THAT was really lame
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