18th November 2006
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#1 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Nov 2005 Location: Olympia, WA/Anch, AK
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Thread Starter  | 9/11 Memorial Strat
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18th November 2006
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#2 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by nickp  Speaks for it self. [sic] | Exploitative?
IMHO better to write a song about 9/11 then use that as a decoration/marketing tool to sell an instrument.
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#3 | | Lives for gear
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Who the fvck would ever buy that?
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#4 | | Lives for gear
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i would buy that
i would also buy a strap on 9/11 memorial wireless midi
controller
i would buy several
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18th November 2006
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#5 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by redddog Who the fvck would ever buy that? | Im waiting for the 9/11 comemoritive penis pump.
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18th November 2006
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#6 | | one man, ONE mic pre
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towers over the competition
(too soon?)
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18th November 2006
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#7 | | Gear Guru
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you guys are hilarious. 
jooc, why doesn't anyone ever buy the 4-11 sh&t i've been trying to sell.
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18th November 2006
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#8 | | Gear maniac
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WHAM on the toer joke. It's never too soon.
The point is that this looks like a regular strat, but overlayed with some really hideous basic fonts and shaped in no particular order. It doesn't look professionally done. The guita rlooks like it was made by some guy in a basement with printed out letters and laquer. The fonts are basic, nothing is custom looking besides the skyline, and it says memorial twice-possibly more times.
And regular starts are what? $400? This guy wants double that for some really botched looking home-customizing. I bet his wife is really into scrapbooking.
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18th November 2006
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#9 | | Gear Guru
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It looks like a one off custom job, I bet the guy who made it was sincere- at least at the time he made it. Maybe he had a friend or relative in the FDNY...
If Fender was issuing a series of of 9/11 memorial strats, now THAT would be exploitative.
There's a guy in my neighborhood who decorated his truck pretty much the same as that guitar.
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#10 | | Gear Guru
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Sqye |  | |
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#12 | | Lives for gear
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I like it. If I were a rich fvcker I would display one at my home since it reminds me of an important part of American History and is displayed on an instrument I would normally use to express my political opinions and views. Unfortunately I am not a rich fvcker so I really couldn't justify a purchase like that right now. It is a cool piece of art nonetheless.   | |
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18th November 2006
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#13 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by joeq It looks like a one off custom job, I bet the guy who made it was sincere- at least at the time he made it. | Then why would he be selling it? Quote:
Originally Posted by joeq There's a guy in my neighborhood who decorated his truck pretty much the same as that guitar. | To keep, not to sell, right?
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#14 | | Gear Guru
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and, on top of that,
selling it for 100% profit?
but, hey - whatever floats your boat.
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18th November 2006
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#15 | | Gear Guru
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Originally Posted by MattiMattMatt Then why would he be selling it? | Maybe the guy died and his wife is selling it.
Maybe he has a disease and needs the money for an operation.
Maybe he is going to donate the money to the fund for the workers who got respiratory diseases from working at Ground zero.
Maybe he decided the look of the guitar doesn't go with his Kiss Tribute band.
Maybe he was disillusioned by the Midterm elections...
somebody stop me 
To me, the proof of sincerity would be in how many of these guitars were built and put up for sale.
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#16 | | Gear Guru
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lol
so i guess you're saying the more giutars he SOLD,
the more SINCERE he is?
or did i just project some brainwashed capitalistic evil american
tractor beam onto your kind philanthropic logic? | |
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#17 | | Lives for gear
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C'mon, this guy has just as much right to profit off of other peoples pain and suffering as anybody else.
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18th November 2006
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#18 | | Gear Guru
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lol
totally corect.
jeeeeeeez, it's not like the bulk of engineers here
don't get their friggin paychecks recording
blind peg leg 3 toed one eyed willy johnsons' blues extravagnaza
(or some miserable middle american white boy equivalent )
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18th November 2006
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#19 | | Gear Guru
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Originally Posted by Sqye so i guess you're saying the more giutars he SOLD,
the more SINCERE he is? | No. I guess I should have said the proof of his insincerity would be in how many guitars he made and sold.
If he just made the one, it may have been from the heart, even if it is now up for sale.
If the guy is cranking them out to cash in, that's insincere. But wait - if the money goes to a 9/11 charity....
T-shirt vendors at Ground Zero have been attacked, verbally and even physically by visitors to the site who thought what they were doing was cashing in.
The only people allowed to make hay over 9/11 are the politicians.
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18th November 2006
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#20 | | Gear Guru
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i was just being silly.
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#21 | | Lives for gear
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OT but then again somewhat related. Korky now offers personalized, visually 'hot-rodded' Mics. So you could actually have a '9/11 Memorial Tube Mic' if you lay down the dineros. http://www.korbyaudio.com/products-custom.html
I dunno if that really helps with the singers performances though......
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18th November 2006
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#22 | | Gear Guru
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probably good for the extra emotion -
(producer, "one more time, with feeling").
sure,
probably good for the extra emotion | |
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