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I want one,where can I get it?

Although I'm pretty sure I'll never buy one of these, I think it's pretty cool!

Kind of a Munsters meets "Dusk 'till Dawn" meets Groovey Ghoulies vibe.

It would be great for a Halloween gig

Graveyard disciple guitar over the top I think !

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/F ... ciple-819/

How exactly did we make it out of the 80's without this happening already?

Epiphone digging their own grave.......quite literally?

Seriously, that is quite possibly the first and only guitar that should ever properly reside in a coffin case.

That's the worst thing I've ever seen from Epiphone.

What a load of Cr@p!
But then again, if you take a look at some of the band names these goth/metal bands are taking, this might fit in perfectly!
Did i really say that? Oh gosh i'm getting old!

I'm sure there is a market for this somewhere....

It's ugly as sin. No way around it.

*BUT*

It's not too far removed from some vintage Vox designs when you think about it.

Still, I'll be six feet under myself before I ever have one of these hideous monsters.

http://www.drumcityguitarland.com/drumc ... 88C85.aspx
Someone is copying someone

ram wrote:I'm sure there is a market for this somewhere....

Definitely: Players of Goth, 60s style garage punk, and some types of metal music will all love it!

I love the way the headstock continues the body's Steinberger Coffin groove....

NOT!!!

Great design work, Gibson!!! Kudos to the brain-dead marketing department:

"It's ugly as hell, but we'll flog thousands of them to pimply-faced Wylde wannabees...get the Korean factory on the phone!!!"

In other words, money trumps aesthetics yet one more time.

jingle_jangle wrote:I love the way the headstock continues the body's Steinberger Coffin groove....

NOT!!!

Great design work, Gibson!!! Kudos to the brain-dead marketing department:

"It's ugly as hell, but we'll flog thousands of them to pimply-faced Wylde wannabees...get the Korean factory on the phone!!!"

In other words, money trumps aesthetics yet one more time.

Wonder what that Gibson troll from the other night would have to say about this.

Y'know, in all honesty--I was lest stunned opening the pic of this guitar than I was when I opened my brand new 1996RI from Ric. I saw the NAMM model on the web site, and actually saw one of the NAMM models up close and personal...so imagine my surprise when I opened my non-refundable deposit brand new 1996RI in fluorescent orange-glo.

Of course, this was the same year they were having difficulties with black, so maybe I'm being too harsh.

Well, not harsh, but certainly not objective...color, especially burst color, is a variable thing. AFG 1996s went back and forth over the color spectrum and spray patterns, as manufacturing was spread over about 3 years. Mine is very early production, and looks quite '60s with its orangey AFG. Local RRFer Philip's is even earlier than mine and has the darker AFG, but a Clownglo spray pattern. Later ones have the best of both worlds--darker color and subtler spray pattern.

You could've always sold it...until recently you could find lots of buyers and probably have turned a small profit, too.