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I wonder if it has to do with the lithium ion batteries in these things. I remember some notebook companies recalling a shit ton of laptops around the block of time Gibson says these are from.
I thought I was bad missing Tiltsa posting this but you're #3.
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Agreed, I don't believe there could be anything truly dangerous in the electronics, except maybe the batteries.I can understand not wanting to spend more money retrofitting them. But the body could be donated to as a project guitar for someone who wants to replace the electronics.
Other than the electronics (I not really sure how they could be unsafe, but whatever) what could be dangerous about the wood bodies
That makes sense...the part about getting them off the books, and I get your point about why maybe donating them wouldn't have worked.The whole thing was about getting those guitars "off the books" as part of the BK restructuring etc. Gibson wanted it well documented so they had absolute proof of their destruction in order to lessen their assets. Anything they had of value could have been forcibly liquidated by the BK Court to pay lenders. Now, that's where this gets sticky... did Gibson commit fraud in going this route vs stripping the hardware etc that still had value? In my opinion, yes. Unless they could effectively argue that the cost of some other course of action would have outweighed any potential "gains", this could easily be prosecutable. In their defense, their options were limited by the BK status. Donating them was not an option. You can't give away several hundred $3K guitars while crying poor. It doesn't work that way. Still, there were certainly better alternatives.
It's about 4 pages long, as of now...I forgot, what is this thread about?
I took the factory tour in Memphis twice. Once on the weekend and once during a weekday when they were working. I'm not sure if it is still open.
Pictured above: The worst thing to happen to the electric guitar ever, and a Gibson Firebird X.