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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9070815" data-attributes="member: 19675">Thayil was DEFINITELY pulling the interviewer’s leg when he said that.Disappointed to hear that about the Frnder acoustics.  They bought out one of my favorite acoustic brands YEARS ago (Tacoma), and I hoped they would incorporate the product line into their own, and maybe hire their builders & designers.  Instead, they completely killed the company.  Apparently, all they wanted was the forest that Tacoma owned to use for raw materials.Gibson’s QC has been so random I won’t consider buying one except in person.  My FLMS had a trio of flawless SGs in metal flake finishes of emerald, ruby, and sapphire. I had the money for one, but I wanted to give WHICH ONE some serious thought.  When I went back 4 days later, someone had beaten me to the store by a few hours and bought all three.In all the years since then, I have never found another SG that looked like them.  I suspect they were prototypes, promotional guitars or possibly customs that went on layaway that never got completed.I’d heard of the Fort Knox series, but never seen any of them.  Gotta say I like what I see…but I’d probably do what Scott Holiday (Rival Sons) did instead.  Namely, he buys custom Gibson clones from a company called Kauer.  Scott’s copies usually have unusual features- like the trems on White’s Fort Knox guitars- but also different pickups.  He has a taste for TV Jones pickups, mostly Filtertrons like you’d find in a Gretsch.And he’s appeared in several Rival Sons videos playing Kauer Banshees in particular- their version of the Firebird.  The sounds he gets out of his Banshee- as well as his swagger- inspires terrible G.A.S.[ATTACH=full]290448[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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