Originally Posted by
Tio Kimo
very cool Z, thanks for posting that! It appears that the contour piece you're referring to was for the back though. In that clip, the partially assembled body has the top on it, with the f-holes covered with tape. If you notice though, they keep showing the body with NO p'up cutouts, then suddenly, they're buffing it, and there they are!! Ahh well. Still very cool to see that, and in the buffing scene, it looks liek there is NO space between block and top. Wonder if they use that same type of contour piece.
What did those EC models go for when the hit the street? And the p'ups they showed being wound and waxed, what model are those considered? (maybe I missed that mention)
If you go back, (as I had to ) and listen to the guy explaining the contour piece he mentions one for the Front and the back. They must cut the pickup wells out after they buff it up. That makes a lot of sense.
What I was blown away by was the way they do the binding.
I think all Gibson, and any realy good pickups are wax potted. This stops a lot of the feeback. Especially on a semi hollow guitar, which are prone to feedback anyway.
As far as numbers go they built 250 of them 175 went to the US market and were sold out in 72 hours, 90 went on the first day. OH and the price was 12,000 each.
So the guys at Guitar Center did pretty good. for the initial price of $847,000 I figure the cost to them was probably under 4000 each and some procceeds went to the Crossroads foundation, but it looks as if they probably got a couple of million back.
BTW what make of guitar are you talking about?. I know my Gibson 335 has them and I am pretty sure my Epiphone Sheraton is the same.
Did you see how quickly the guy puts the electronics through the F holes.
That takes some skill.
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