Gibson Factory Raided

[tot_Ou_tard]

Question about this: where do most manufacturers get their rosewood? I figure it's probably the most common fretboard material around, so wouldn't this be a problem for most factories?

It's the type of rosewood that is a concern. Not all species of rosewood are on the endangered species list: Brazillian rosewood is, Indian rosewood is not.

The quote above mentioned a species of rosewood from Madagascar.

Here a link I just googled up:

http://www.alliedlutherie.com/rosewoods.htm

[FrankenFretter***]

I wonder if we can look forward to LPs looking like this:

[Plank_Spanker]

Rest assured folks - Gibson has this little problem covered legally eight ways to Sunday......................"It was a supplier non-compliance issue......not any fault of Gibson."

Nothing will come from this as far a Gibson is concerned.