How's The Logo On Your Headstock? Let's See T

[ajay]

Nice!

 

[Progrocker111]

 

[thxphotog]

Posting below that Custom is like a new teenage garage band following Metallica.

 

[Frogfur]

I can't contribute. I don't spend anytime at all looking at a head stock. I just play'em.

 

[thxphotog]

I can't contribute. I don't spend anytime at all looking at a head stock. I just play'em.

Were ya playin' when you typed that?

 

[ajay]

Were ya playin' when you typed that?

I got ya'. You're a 1%er. You must be better than Yngwie by now! Congrats!

 

[Family Man]

'88 sg

 

[thxphotog]

I got ya'. You're a 1%er. You must be better than Yngwie by now! Congrats!

?? May need to translate that for me.

 

[ajay]

?? May need to translate that for me.

Yngwie Malmsteen is considered one of the top five, if not the best guitar player in the Universe. I don't know if that is under the category of rock guitarists, or anyone who plucks a guitar string.
I was being kind of stupidly silly, and meant no harm. I was teasing the guy who doesn't have time to participate in this " Why in the heck can't Gibson put a nice logo on every guitar that leaves one of their factories" topic of discussion, because he's too busy plucking his guitar.
I apologize for any hurt feelings that my lame atempt to lighten up this discussion may have caused. This thread was started not to hurt feelings, but to try to determine how many logos are screwed up, and why can't Gibson put a piece of Mother of Pearl into each headstock without having the circumference of the logo all chewed up looking on many of the guitars that they produce.
It's obvious that many of them are really nice, so why are a lot of them funky looking?
And maybe that guy IS Yngwie Malmsteen! It IS a small world you know.

 

[Latearrival]

My 2009 Traditional:


DSC_0080 by lightspeed3, on Flickr

 

[Leebak]

2013 standard

 

[thxphotog]

Yngwie Malmsteen is considered one of the top five, if not the best guitar player in the Universe. I don't know if that is under the category of rock guitarists, or anyone who plucks a guitar string.
I was being kind of stupidly silly, and meant no harm. I was teasing the guy who doesn't have time to participate in this " Why in the heck can't Gibson put a nice logo on every guitar that leaves one of their factories" topic of discussion, because he's too busy plucking his guitar.
I apologize for any hurt feelings that my lame atempt to lighten up this discussion may have caused. This thread was started not to hurt feelings, but to try to determine how many logos are screwed up, and why can't Gibson put a piece of Mother of Pearl into each headstock without having the circumference of the logo all chewed up looking on many of the guitars that they produce.
It's obvious that many of them are really nice, so why are a lot of them funky looking?
And maybe that guy IS Yngwie Malmsteen! It IS a small world you know.

No, no, see..... I thought you directed the Ingwie comment towards me, and that didn't make an sense to me. Never mind, carry on, nothing to see here.

And that was my point, and obviously yours as well. This forum and others like it are for information and even more importantly, FUN!! We all LOVE guitars! If you're too busy to post a pic of your guitar, or above posting a silly pic of your headstock, but you DO have time to comment that you don't have time (oxy-moron) you're in the wrong place.

 

[ajay]

Not only are we attempting to have fun, We are seeing that Gibson is MORE than capable of putting top quality logos on their guitars. They can get the bindings done just fine. They get the frets 99% awesome with the Plek. Their paint shop is awesome, although they're changing the perimeter shading for the worse IMO. They can figure just about any facet of guitar making and mavke them great. Just figure out how to put Your logo on correctly on every guitar that You sell. You did it for all of Your customers in the old days.
Aren't we deserving of the same quality, and especially since we are so proud of our Gibsons? Please figure out a way to keep the Gibson name flush and shiny. We have to let Gibson know that We are noticing a problem. OK just isn't good enough. Each part of the build has to be equally great. You are doing a crappy job on a lot of the logos, and some of us are not going to say, "Oh Well. It's just the first thing that You look at when You see a guitar for the first time. Fix it Gibson. We CAN see them. You CAN do a better job, so just DO IT.

 

[David Garner]

Mine is a '93, so it's getting pretty rough.

 

[dangerdog]

The veneer is not black. Even the fibreboard ones from the 70's were a charcoal grey. The originals being Holly - a white wood like maple.

So the inlay gets put in, with black goop around it. There is always a great deal of play in the rout so that you don't have to push it in - these inlays are about 1mm thick so they will crack at the least effort.

Where did you get that logo pic?

I ask because I was always under the impression that logos looked like this under the overlay. Which makes more sense to me than the logo I see that you posted. Just seems like a ton of work to carve the logo perfectly and then fit it perfectly into a perfectly carved route...seems like more a boutique builder thing, not Gibson:

 

[Iron Blimp]

 

[Lurko]

 

[RLG167]

Maybe we aren't worthy, maybe Gibson is trying to send us a message. Think about it, right when music went down the sh***er Gibson started to get progressively bad (unprofessional may be the right word, you know what I mean...) all this new age pop music and talentless assholes making new metal 'core' genres that mostly sound like crap and use no talent. People buying $5,000 boutique 8 string guitars only to use the bottom two. Let's go back to when metal was metal.
*epic rant over*

 

[Jimbo]

2007 classic antique



2016 60s tribute T

 

[ajay]

It makes You wonder why they don't just go back to the gold Gibson decal. I have one on my '70 Melody Maker, and I have always loved it. The gold silkscreen is fine too. I have one on my LPJ and it looks great, because they use cool gold paint.
If it's too time-consuming to do it right, then just eliminate the inlay and do what looks great. A decal.