Gibson Nonreverese reissuie a reality

[Figas]

The mind (my mind at least) is a funny thing. When I held my first Gibson TBird in hand in 1998, I was horrified at the wavy kitchen brush paint job with dents in the wood and all. These days I like that and rate high gloss ultra-even finishes as cheap along the lines of "what are they hiding underneath it?"

Not only I like seeing the grain, but also like the way nitro wears out and gets gloss marks and all sorts of dirtyness. Plus, the smell.

[drbassman]

Sniffing your basses can be addictive!   

[Granny Gremlin]

note to self: don't buy any instruments from these perverts.

(who am I kidding; I name all of mine).

[uwe]

What's wrong with slimy basses that smell like dead fish?

[Dave W]

There's no right or wrong here. It's more a matter of what guitar buyers usually expect.

In the mid-90s, when Schecter was US-only, they made a very nice series with unfilled stained ash bodies in addition to their more expensive lines. They were really great looking and feeling yet they didn't sell. Now maybe if they had been in the 500-700 range the line would have been a success, but they were in the lower teens.

[uwe]

As we all know, mahogany is not such a looker, the porous structure gives it at least a little something!

[drbassman]

I would much rather see/feel some grain than have that mile deep poly crap that Fender uses.  I hate that stuff!

[uwe]

Wait!!! We are now in concrete danger of approaching "finish (or lack of it) influences sound".

[Granny Gremlin]

LOL, I'm somewhat tickled that that debate still rage.... but lets not ruin Dave's day.

[uwe]

Jake, don't you dare! You know you still have that "string-thru affects string tension"-thing running against you.

Nothing much has changed, Dave still cracks the whip. Freedom is slavery, ignorance is truth.

Afterthought: Depending on placement, string-thru can sure affect my tension! 

[Dave W]

....
Afterthought: Depending on placement, string-thru can sure affect my tension! 

Better loosen the support strings on your assless chaps.

I never said finish doesn't affect sound. Just that I haven't seen or heard any evidence of audible difference in a plugged-in solidbody.

[uwe]

"I never said finish doesn't affect sound."

The Ministry of Truth hath spoken faster than you can say "revisionism"!!!  

"We are at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. We were never at war with Eurasia."

[Dave W]

No revisionism, period. Wish those old threads were up somewhere.

Now off you go to Two Minutes Of Hate.

[Granny Gremlin]

So we've been talking about these things for a decade.... maybe we should test them experimentally already?

Just don't put Uwe in charge because I'm worried he might damage his truss rod by cranking it down too hard and not using lube. 

[uwe]

Mr. Steel.