10-08-2011, 08:27 AM
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My Epiphone AccuBass has a rosewood fingerboard.
What the article doesn't mention but I heard right from the horse's mouth in an interview with Gibson'r CEO was that they were told that if Gibson Guitar Co. were to set up a manufacturing plant in Madagascar then they would not be in violation!
Yeah....THAT'S the way to create more American jobs. Gibson discounts this idea as ridiculous and maintains that it's an American company and has no plans to change that. I suppose Fender can skirt that dumb assed law since it has facilities in Japan and Mexico. Problem is though that Fender MIMs (Made In Mexico) are not the same quality as the guitars that come out of the US facility. Same goes for the Japanese models.
I wonder if Fender is in the Obama camp?
Typical lefty crap going on here. A law that is intended to preserve certain trees in this case leads to stiff fines for the sake of a bent interpretation by the EPA would be just A fucking OK if they set up shop abroad. Now how the fuck does that change anything? They would STILL be using the same wood but with another manufacturing facility in theory they would use MORE of it!
One product order number off? Give me a break!!!!!
Next thing almost HAS to be......"Well you could start using wood from Kenya!"
What the article doesn't mention but I heard right from the horse's mouth in an interview with Gibson'r CEO was that they were told that if Gibson Guitar Co. were to set up a manufacturing plant in Madagascar then they would not be in violation!
Yeah....THAT'S the way to create more American jobs. Gibson discounts this idea as ridiculous and maintains that it's an American company and has no plans to change that. I suppose Fender can skirt that dumb assed law since it has facilities in Japan and Mexico. Problem is though that Fender MIMs (Made In Mexico) are not the same quality as the guitars that come out of the US facility. Same goes for the Japanese models.
I wonder if Fender is in the Obama camp?
Typical lefty crap going on here. A law that is intended to preserve certain trees in this case leads to stiff fines for the sake of a bent interpretation by the EPA would be just A fucking OK if they set up shop abroad. Now how the fuck does that change anything? They would STILL be using the same wood but with another manufacturing facility in theory they would use MORE of it!
One product order number off? Give me a break!!!!!
Next thing almost HAS to be......"Well you could start using wood from Kenya!"
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