re: #207 makeitstop

Interesting backstory there. Echo Park Guitars has a dodgy rep in the custom guitar community - like the story says, they’ve built guitars for a lot of big rock stars, but there are a lot of stories out there about people who aren’t big rock stars getting treated like crap, with Gabe Currie promising delivery in 6 to 8 months but then not delivering for up to two years. And Currie regularly goes on Insta and mocks people who complain that his delivery is too slow and a lot of the work is sub-standard.

And Echo Park’s guitars price out for between 8 and 10 grand. Gibson may have bet on the wrong horse here.

I owned a Gibson J-45 back in the day (50 years ago). I have been thinking about taking up guitar again now that I am retired (officially not until 12/2019).