Probably getting a Gibson soon!

rigneyclan wrote:

TV stands for television, lol. TV Yellow was developed in the 1950s to solve the problem of the color white, under the glare of bright television lights, overpowering the black and white television cameras.

There you go, ask and ye shall receive an answer. I thought televsion, but didn't know how that related to the colour. MAkes sense now, thanks mate !!

xtremehardy388 wrote:

Wow, I didn't know that TV yellow trivia. It'll take a while before I get the guitar let alone before P90's. I have a Gibson humbucker but I dont know what kind it is. My friend (who moved) gave it to me in a custom made guitar. How do I find out what it is?? Also, what's the big deal about P-90's? FINALLY, I'm a little nervous about getting that GIbson without a pickguard. I play REALLY hard and I don't wanna scratch the nice top, and ideas on how I can limit the scratching?

OK, great thing about BFG's, THEY DON"T HAVE A NICE TOP !!
Go to teh Gibson web-site, and take teh virtual factory tour. It's a great education on how to build a quality guitar, and you can see why theyr are so expensive. You will also see why teh BFG is cheap, cos most of the expensive sgteps are just not done.
BFG has a brief sand on the top after the auto carving machine has finished, no binding, no nice shiny lacquer, no pick-up rings, nothing nice at all, just skanky unfinished timber. You can't hurt it, that is part of the beauty of it.
P90 is the Gibson singel coil, still teh same design after all these years, typical in that they hum like a bitch, but just have a distinctive sound, not better, just different.
HUmbuckers were inveneted to overcome the hum, P100's are stacked singles, much like the Fender noiseless jobbies, which supposedly give singel tome wihtout teh hum but lotsa people say teh tone ain't teh same.
Go to some shops and start picking teh brains of every sales guy, they will all say something different. Eventaully it will start to make some sense.

xtremehardy388 wrote:

Oh man, I wish Gibson was still here in Kalamazoo...

Thanks for the help!

I'm still convinced that Kalamazoo is a joke name, like Biggus Dikkus, or Incontinentia Buttocks !!

xtremehardy388 wrote:

Also, what's the big deal about P-90's?

Tone man, its all about the tone. Its a bigger single coil pickup than you'd find in a strat, but smaller than a humbucker. But again, single coil. The tones it can produce are pretty sick. I have an LP Jr. double cut with the single p-90 in the bridge, and its awesome!

GivenToCarve wrote:

Hey Lucy, since you got to ask a trivia question, I'm going to ask you one. To satisfy my curiosity, what does BFG stand for?

Ahh, that is one of the mysteries. I have a joke running on the les paul forum to rile the haters, where all the BFG lovers come up with silly answers to that question

Offers so far are........

Barely Finished Guitar
Badass F******* Guitar
Big Fraggin' Gun....from Quake, mosy opinions think Gibson marketting have hijacked that
Big Furry Green..........
Butt Fugly Guitar, that's my fav
and so on, there's a few more I can't remember.