headstock.....

[28 Flathead]

I don't care how the headstock looks or says ..... it all about playability and satisfaction !!!!

Epiphone Guitars are ....

The Epi headstock used to bother me...............untill I got my first Epiphone. Doesn't bother me at all now!

 

[Raiyn]

I chased down the interview with Ted:

"
Q. "How about the gold-finished top?"

A. "We did that because the gold finish covered the blemishes in the wood, the cosmetic appearance. Because guitar players are strange. Now [speaking in 1992] they’re making guitars with maple with... what do they call that? Quilted maple, yes. In the early ‘50s you couldn’t give one away. If it was maple it had to be fiddleback maple, had to be perfect, couldn’t have any blemishes, couldn’t have any mineral streaks in it.

But we used to cover it up with that paint. Then we made the Custom, painted it black. So as long as the wood was solid, any streaks or blemishes didn’t make any difference—it was all black."

Former Gibson Chief Ted McCarty on Tonewoods and the Problems of 'Top-Heavy' Management | Bacon's Archive

An interview with the president that launched the Les Paul, the SG, and brought Gibson into the modern guitar era.

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I'm not crazy, Hooray!