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fierce_carrot · September 24th, 2006, 07:24 AM

I've been a "guitar snob" all my life and looked down on epi's until a good friend of mine let me play his 58 Korina Flying V RI he had purchased. He'd swapped out the Pickups for a set of Gibson PAF's and this guitar flat rocked, an incredible guitar to play. He wanted something I had, and he had the V, not it's mine. It's hard not to just start ripping it up when I plug it in.

I read in another forum once when "offshore guitars" were being discussed and one post made me sit back in my chair and re evaluate everything I had ever thought of about these guitars. He said

"That CNC machine doesn't know its in Mexico, Japan or Korea, it just knows how to make the guitars its programmed to make."

I've got a mexi strat, mexi tele and a V thats probably korean and once you change out the hardware, these guitars are smokers. All three of these guitars combined couldn't buy one new Gibson Les Paul like I own. My days of buying high dollar axes are over!

Something else, on my V, the epi logo on the headstock, was a decal...

WAS being the keyword....guitar snobbery is a hard thing to rid yourself of!

September 24th, 2006, 07:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
fierce_carrot Tele-Holic Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Iowa Age: 53 Posts: 985	I've been a "guitar snob" all my life and looked down on epi's until a good friend of mine let me play his 58 Korina Flying V RI he had purchased. He'd swapped out the Pickups for a set of Gibson PAF's and this guitar flat rocked, an incredible guitar to play. He wanted something I had, and he had the V, not it's mine. It's hard not to just start ripping it up when I plug it in. I read in another forum once when "offshore guitars" were being discussed and one post made me sit back in my chair and re evaluate everything I had ever thought of about these guitars. He said "That CNC machine doesn't know its in Mexico, Japan or Korea, it just knows how to make the guitars its programmed to make." I've got a mexi strat, mexi tele and a V thats probably korean and once you change out the hardware, these guitars are smokers. All three of these guitars combined couldn't buy one new Gibson Les Paul like I own. My days of buying high dollar axes are over! Something else, on my V, the epi logo on the headstock, was a decal... WAS being the keyword....guitar snobbery is a hard thing to rid yourself of! Last edited by fierce_carrot; September 24th, 2006 at 08:49 AM.