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What’s up with luxe radio for bumblebee caps?

ReWind James

ReWind James

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Those white Wesco film caps inside plastic bumblebee-looking shells that Gibson first used in the 2000s or so are starting to look pretty appealing, these days.

Remember when everyone hated them?

Some of that hate was probably just because Gibson's marketing stated they were PIO, at first, before they pulled that incorrect text.

Honestly, if they were available today, they would be the most realistic looking (and a sonically decent) option for vintage restorations / replicas.
 
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jimshine

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It is a shame to see the problem is ongoing. How is Luxe able to supply a mass production facility with enough product, but direct orders a year old are still unfulfilled?
 
xxedgexx

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jimshine said:
It is a shame to see the problem is ongoing. How is Luxe able to supply a mass production facility with enough product, but direct orders a year old are still unfulfilled?
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Any chance Gibson convinced him to stop sales to independent customers?
 
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NickiC

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I see the Bumble Bees and Black Beauty, in stock from BYOGuitar.
 
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ReWind James

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Gross.

Either make a great product that stands on its own or make an at least plausible copy of something. ...but don't try to sell a product as a replica and half-ass it, ending up with something that's just a mess.

The aftermarket guitar parts industry needs no more poor attempts at copying something vintage. There's more than enough already. Paint them gray or blue, or green, or black, put the WD (or Jupiter) logo on them, and sell them as "truly excellent capacitors for guitars and audio" (assuming they are) but don't dip some wrong shape and size cap in black enamel, paint some weird looking stripes on it, and call it a "Bumblebee" cap hoping to sucker the inexperienced and unknowing in. It just reflects poorly on the brand.
 
renderit

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Now we will have the ability to make our guitars sound so good and be virtually un-duplicatable!

If UN-DUPLICATABLE is even a word.

What a beatifalicious world we live in!!
 
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