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Sanctuary wrote:
The guitar bit is pretty much "business as usual". Looks like their main issue was trying to diversify & those branches of the company weighing the lot down. Not an uncommon thing in business.
Aside from that there have been issues with Gibson's output. Their adopting of the automated mechanical tuners the other year was a big folly. They've made mistakes before and indeed made some mad looking guitars (The Explorer, Flying Vee etc..) that caught on and some others (Moderne, Corvus etc..) that didn't.
I splashed out on the bucket list guitar I'd always fancied 5 years ago, when they did a nice reissue of the '63 ES335. The quality of that seems great, but none of their stuff is cheap and the question is "Do you get what you pay for?" ...
On the Fender side of things, they've gone the opposite way to Gibson and you can buy Fender guitars at every price point made in loads of different countries with wildly variable quality control. Bottom line is, if you've got a normal amount of cash to spend on a guitar, chances it's definitely not going to be a Gibson.
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