rogue3
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We will have to agree to disagreee on this one. Jackson makes a V. Dean Makes a V. Epiphone makes a V. (They count if you are claiming punters won't know better) Pretty sure ESP and BC Rich have made them. Ibanez and Hamer also if memory serves and I have not even begun to talk about the boutique guys. You have to live under a rock to not be aware of all of these other mfg's making V's. Back in the 80's especially they were everywhere. The tribe elders may only see Gibson. The rest of us a little younger didn't come up only lusting after Fender and Gibson like that. We had a bonanza of of other builders that captured our imagination
^ this.Excellent! And we all complain about new blood not playing guitar.If this is it, if this is what it takes,i say let it fly.Let evolution procede.According to the article,Gibson has not lost its balls on the patent,just a piece of it's left nut. Sometimes that is what it takes to proliferate, to be re-born.
I'll add,in Europe,home of metal popularity today,guitar still thrives,and the derivatives of the iconic shape are the market normal there.(like the article says)
Good decision.