I live 5 minutes away from the old Garrison factory in Mt. Pearl Newfoundland (not in St. John's) i had a friend who worked there and i know Chris. I've been wondering if i should do a video about the factory and his store he had, Griffiths guitar works. It says "set 5" on both sides of the guitar so the two halves stay together during manufacturing
@@WkndWarriorGTR i will do something documentary wise on it, i can almost see the building from my house amd i work in the general area so it wouldn't be a huge inconvenience. If i had of known trogly was doing this i could have sent him some footage of the place
@@Riverdeepnwidei will do something documentary wise on it, i can almost see the building from my house and I work in the general area so it wouldn't be a huge inconvenience. Something having to do with offshore oil is in the building now. If i had of known trogly was doing this I could have sent him some footage
I've had a Garrison acoustic for twenty years now and absolutely love it. There's something about the tone that I adore and I haven't found in other similarly priced guitars.
Just speaking as a retired aerospace engineer, who spent a lot of time on aircraft interiors. This looks like a classic situation where the coefficient of expansion between the frame and the body panels are very different. So as the ambient temperature increases or decreases, the 3D printed frame and the wooden panels expand and contract at different rates. Cracks are inevitable. It doesn't necessarily mean that the guitar won't sound good, at least for the near term. If the glue-bonded areas start to fail, then yeah. Not gonna be great for the long term.
I own an Garrison AG200 (flat black), bought it in 2005 and it is seriously my number one. Its been a fantastic instrument for me over the years. I've written many songs on it. Thanks for this video...its great to see some things I did not know. FYI: The AG series only had the bracing in the top. The back bracing on the AG's is all wood.
Wow, never thought I'd see a Garrison on this channel! My first 2 acoustics were Garrison, a G-20 (cedar top, birch back & sides) & G-30 (spruce top, birch back & sides). A lot of us Newfoundlanders played them at that time. Used to frequent Chris' old store a lot, Griffith's Guitar Works on Ropewalk Lane in St. John's. I've heard some people say they've had issues with the glue not holding over time between the composite-material frame & wood, but I haven't had any issues. The rosettes on the first production models were laser-etched, which I thought looked a little tacky..they later changed them. They also used the Buzz Feiten tuning system.
Chris Griffiths had a small repair/retail shop on Ropwalk Lane in St. John's, NL, prior to opening the Garrison factory. Picked up a 1985 Westone bass from him that came with interchangeable necks, a fretted and a fretless. Still play it all the time.
So what did Gibson do to Garrison Guitars? I think Trogly avoided answering that. That this brand is no longer around kinda speaks for itself, though it's too bad Trogly now avoids talking Gibson news unless it's positive for the brand, like how he dodged discussing last year's Dean / Armadillo lawsuit update. 🤘💀 Keep on Rocking everyone!
It was a composite material forced through an injection moulding process. 40%long strand glass 60%a secret sauce .. which I have no clue of . Have to ask Gibson now . They have the patents .
I didn't believe that there was such a thing as an 'over braced' acoustic guitar until I heard how flat and non-dynamic this Garrison sounds Austin...🤔
A huge difference between this and the production models is the bracing material. This appears to be some kind of plastic as compared to the (black) glass fiber bracing system on the production guitars. This pobably accounts for the "muted" sound, as my Garrisons (I've owned 5 and currently have 2) all sound better than my Taylors and Martins. Also, the neck and heel block are an integrated part of the bracing system, at least it was until they changed to the wood bracing on the back, around the time Gibson bought the company. Another difference is that the production guitars had the Buzz Feiten tuning system. All that said, this is a great piece of history.
have played many garrisons being from newfoundland. they sounded great, and still do. gibson bought them out to accuire the patten for that brace system was what i was told as i used to spend abit of time at griffiths guitar shop
I remember in 2004 I was at a small guitar store up in cottage country Ontario and I played a Garrison AG-SP - a thinline Acoustic. I played it for about 15 minutes and being in my teens couldn't afford it. I went back a few months later and it was gone. I was never able to find one again.
All plastic gets brittle after awhile. At least all I've delt with. Damn sure keep it out of the heat. Nope... way too jangley for me. Glad the owner really wants it. Though those few cords you picked,then stummed were nice. The Zeppelin worked pretty well too. Every instrument has it's place. Longevity will be determined by time.
Have you done any videos about luthier Roger Giffin. He worked for the Gibson Custom Shop in LA for many years and has since gone out on his own. Can u get your hands on one of his guitars?
Nick Schilder is a Dutch musician who used to be in a musical duo called Nick & Simon. In the Netherlands they were often compared to Simon & Garfunkel. Nick had a few Garrison guitars that he appeared with everywhere, and it's probably one of those guitars that made me start playing guitar when I was 6
I own one of the Gibson DSMs (appears to be a prototype)... Incredible wood specs, solid mahogany back and side (with a nice ribbon flame), solid spruce top, ebony fretboard and bridge, abalone inlays and a mahogany neck. It does not have the plastic bracing, the bracing in mine is wood... Unfortunately the design is full of flaws, bolt on neck with no securing of the fretboard to the body (basically floating). Unfortunately I got mine on a very cold winter day and it did not include a case. Brought it home and the top immediately warped and the back cracked lol. The warp in the top exposed the fact that the previous owner had attempted to convert it to a set neck. As a guitar tech I cobbled it together to make it playable. Despite the flaws it plays and sounds incredible lol. Not sure why but it does lol. Whenever anyone asks if they should get one my answer is a resounding no... Buy a Taylor or low end Martin instead, the DSM is kinda a piece of junk made with good wood. Or save up and get a nice Gibson J45 lol.
Could’ve been a nice guitar if it had proper wood bracing and a more traditional finish. I think the plastic bracing led to the cracks on the top and contributed to the terrible sound.
i thought of you today, i live in nova scotia and we burn wood for heat, yesterday i split a log and the flame pattern was quite nice and i can side view cross section of how the wood gets that look, im taking macro photos today ill share with you if your interested. Enjoy.
I split some bought firewood last year and found a few pieces of choice birdseye maple. Saved some but was sad the pieces aren't big enough to do much with. Hey fellow Bluenoser.
are you kidding me! My name is Garrison and I had a LP copy made and put a look alike Gibson logo on it spelling 'Garrison' You mean to to tell me I might have copyright infringement on my "Garrison" Vest Paul?
FYI .. it’s not plastic bracing . It’s a composite material forced through an injection moulding process . Has a 40% long strand glass fibres and 60 % secret sauce . Every have to give a speech at your best friends wedding and had to tap on your crystal wine glass to get everyone’s attention??? The glass provides an excellent source for sound to travel .
I am very old fashioned , I'd rather spend more money for real wood than to have PLASTIC inside my acoustic , though I can appreciate someone thinking outside the box , keep it coming Trogly ! Thanks !
If Garrison guitars is an outfit that Gibson absorbed into its own hierarchy, that gives me an idea. Is it possible that they could absorb Armadillo into the same hierarchy but continue to let Dean manufacture instruments under that brand name? That way, Gibson might actually consider diverting priorities away from arbitrary litigation and try earning profit by lowering the prices on their standard models so that they become affordable again. I honestly think that's how they are attempting to generate revenue, from continually taking the owners of Dean to court when they have priced themselves out of the market. Talk of instruments originating in Canada, I'm going to mention this again. Knowing that you favor Gibson over Epiphone, I'm going to repeat that it would be excellent if you could procure, review and demo an instrument from Epiphone's Canadian-exclusive 2009 negative line. Those models could only be found during that one year in the retailer Long and McQuade.
In boutique industries it's not uncommon for one brand to acquire another simply to take it off the market. Usually it's a matter of acquiring a smaller competitor with a better product before they become big enough to pose a threat to your brand. In this case, I think this was a philanthropical move by Gibson to save the world from that hideous "bracing" thing. And for that, they have my appreciation. This looks like something you'd buy at Toys r' Us except that it doesn't have a built in amp and speaker. I get that it's somebody's thing, but I'll never understand why.
Wrong. It was a highly creative innovation in a field of traditionalists. They were unable to fully improve the concept- and it takes a mind with minimal imaginative sensibilities and negativity like yours to not see the familial relationships between the modern carbon fiber guitars and a Garrison guitar. The fact that some random guy from *Newfoundland* thought this up and somehow made it happen is unbelievable You are the type who openly criticizes prototypes and has zero vision
@Lomoholga2 Oh, boy; here comes another person who has the only valid opinion. I bet it's lonely there in Mom's basement with nothing to do but be a keyboard warrior. Regardless, pick an argument with someone else because I'm not interested.
The music store I worked at in the early 2000s sold them and my coworker became an endorsed artist for them. They had one major flaw. If you did not keep it constantly humiliated they too would drink and crack.
I humiliate my guitars just by playing them. They beg me to stop playing, but I laugh and tell them I’d like them better if they had P90’s. I’ve found negging really helps keep guitars in shape.
Oh well - there goes another good guitar company. No doubt gibson will double the price and half the quality as usual. Edit: I take it back - that thing is rubbish lol. Where's the bass ? It sounds like a shallow bowl with cheap strings on. Oh well - I'm still curious to see how gibson manage to make it worse .
It's very rare that a guitar actually sounds cheap, but blimey this is thin and weedy and really unpleasant! Probably best played finger style. The pic really seems to exacerbate it's flaws.
I was in hospital battling for life over close to 4 months. Doctors and nurses were telling my wife to get our, then, three young sons set up with grief counseling because they decided I wasn't gonna make it! I would hear these conversations going on sometimes and I fought like an itchy bastard to finally fight to open my eyes ever so slightly and my wife got up close and heard me say "F**K Those Assholes, I'm Coming Home Baby...Tell Our Boys" and out I went for a few more weeks! That's what she thinks I said, I don't remember! When I finally woke up and was getting stronger (it took two years to regain my full strength...close to it anyway) My wife and sons were visiting and it was only a week or so from the first time I fully woke up, and so they stayed with me for over 8 hours, as my wife told me. They came back several more times and then the big day came when I was finally discharged. That was emotional because several awesome nurses, one who 100% saved my life...long story, all stood along the hallway to tearfully say goodbye...OK, I wasn't gonna include this but...what the hell!! One of them abused me when she thought I was 100% out! I wasn't! She was washing me and took liberties with the hammer of...wounded Thor!! Nothing too creepy, she had a fist full of soap and just had a grab! I will NOT mention names but it rhymed with (Hoe-anne) That one one out of seven others who somehow managed to resist...sigh...ok, I appreciated it!! I was dying, gimme a break! LOL! So, remember that first 8 hour visit? Well, when my sons and wife helped me in the house I could NOT believe what I saw!! The day they visited for 8 hours, a dishwasher connection burst and when they got home, my middle son walked in first and saw waterfalls coming down from the main level to the front door foyer which is 7 steps down from the main level, then 14 steps down, waterfalls poured into the basement which had three inches or more of water!! He also described waterfalls cascading down the open ceiling ductwork onto the basement floor! The main floor was also obviously flooded and water leached up every wall (drywall) I had just built the house with my eldest son and some friends before I went in for "day surgery" when my bile duct was knicked and not noticed!! Ya, that chestnut! I was close to death by early that next morning! My stretcher was parked beside the MRA (I had been raced from CT Scan, to several different imaging machines before they pulled my staples and shoved my limp dying corpse in the MRI and they parked my stretcher beside the control room. I managed to turn my head and saw the image showing a large, bright spot about the size of a golf ball...maybe a wee bit bigger, directly over my heart! As soon as I saw that I knew I was never going home again...my next thought was "F**K THAT, I GOT A SMOKING HOT WIFE AND FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN (a daughter a year old when I met my wife at a performance my band was putting on) OK, now I'm bringing it on home!!! The day that mother-flood puked all over my sweet new lakeside retirement home home, one of those cascading waterfalls coming down from a section of duct, was barfing her filthy load directly over my dearly beloved 12 string Norman I bought when I was 13!! There was over $30,000 damage CDN back around 2001-3 can't remember the exact year. I was not able to stand, sit, lay down, get out of bed without help for a long ass time, and it took two plus years to fully recover! There were intermittent major surgeries after my pancreas rebelled, then kidneys didn't wanna be left out...traitors! So, my pro lead vocals/writer/rhythm guitar playing days were over! So, I used a portion of the insurance, which paid out for new replacement, on a Garrison G fiddy! I TRIED SO HARD TO LIKE THAT GUITAR!!! I hated it and about five or six years back I traded it along with a raggedy old Ibanez 200 for a brand new Epiphone Casino! Almost two years ago I sold the Casino and sold my Maritime Seagull, both awesome guitars and bought a new Epiphone Excellente!! So, really, I swapped out a G 50 Garrison which I hated for a SWEET Epiphone Excellente! BOING! SHWING!! HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!!! Jack ~'()'~
1 OR 2 Don't know what happened you guys are fast. Hey Trogly ok that makes sense it looks like a well maid guitar, I really never heard of these acoustics. Ya humidity is a problem with the wood and especially your necks (Climate control) and I don't mean Global warming. lol. It sounds pretty good autisticly I guess. It's all in what you like and trust. Yes you were harping on it too! Well thats why I play bass. But collect all. Thanx bud see ya!
This is my dad’s guitar!!! Thanks so much for helping him trogly, he’s beyond excited for it.
Cool! Wish him a Happy New Guitar Day from us Troglodytes!
Cool!
I live 5 minutes away from the old Garrison factory in Mt. Pearl Newfoundland (not in St. John's) i had a friend who worked there and i know Chris. I've been wondering if i should do a video about the factory and his store he had, Griffiths guitar works. It says "set 5" on both sides of the guitar so the two halves stay together during manufacturing
Scott I'd love to see that video!
Yes that would be awesome to see!
@@WkndWarriorGTR i will do something documentary wise on it, i can almost see the building from my house amd i work in the general area so it wouldn't be a huge inconvenience. If i had of known trogly was doing this i could have sent him some footage of the place
@@Riverdeepnwidei will do something documentary wise on it, i can almost see the building from my house and I work in the general area so it wouldn't be a huge inconvenience. Something having to do with offshore oil is in the building now. If i had of known trogly was doing this I could have sent him some footage
I'd love to see a video.
The writing inside says "Set #5". It's a method of keeping the back and sides sorted.
I've had a Garrison acoustic for twenty years now and absolutely love it. There's something about the tone that I adore and I haven't found in other similarly priced guitars.
Just speaking as a retired aerospace engineer, who spent a lot of time on aircraft interiors. This looks like a classic situation where the coefficient of expansion between the frame and the body panels are very different. So as the ambient temperature increases or decreases, the 3D printed frame and the wooden panels expand and contract at different rates. Cracks are inevitable. It doesn't necessarily mean that the guitar won't sound good, at least for the near term. If the glue-bonded areas start to fail, then yeah. Not gonna be great for the long term.
Just look at Willie Nelson's "Trigger". That thing has holes , cracks , and probably burns, all over it. I'd pay $500 to play 3 cords on Trigger.
Accostics have to be heard in person. YT compression kills them.
that's the bridge plate. sound board is another term for the top
I own an Garrison AG200 (flat black), bought it in 2005 and it is seriously my number one. Its been a fantastic instrument for me over the years. I've written many songs on it. Thanks for this video...its great to see some things I did not know. FYI: The AG series only had the bracing in the top. The back bracing on the AG's is all wood.
Thank you Steven for sharing your beautiful guitar! Congrats on your purchase!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wow, never thought I'd see a Garrison on this channel! My first 2 acoustics were Garrison, a G-20 (cedar top, birch back & sides) & G-30 (spruce top, birch back & sides). A lot of us Newfoundlanders played them at that time. Used to frequent Chris' old store a lot, Griffith's Guitar Works on Ropewalk Lane in St. John's. I've heard some people say they've had issues with the glue not holding over time between the composite-material frame & wood, but I haven't had any issues. The rosettes on the first production models were laser-etched, which I thought looked a little tacky..they later changed them. They also used the Buzz Feiten tuning system.
I have a Garrison. It sounds great! It also has a Buzz Feiten tuning system. It has the best intonation of any guitar I own.
Chris Griffiths had a small repair/retail shop on Ropwalk Lane in St. John's, NL, prior to opening the Garrison factory. Picked up a 1985 Westone bass from him that came with interchangeable necks, a fretted and a fretless. Still play it all the time.
Ha! I was at the St. Louis Music Go Round this afternoon!
My first acoustic and still sounds great decades on.
Trogly will call a built up heel a "scarf joint" it's not 😮
Yeah, I noticed that while reviewing the ep too... The U shape just triggered my mind haha. Don't worry, I know
@@Trog Fair enough we'll let you go this time! LOL! But I was talking at the screen saying c'mon Trog you gotta know better than that.
So what did Gibson do to Garrison Guitars? I think Trogly avoided answering that. That this brand is no longer around kinda speaks for itself, though it's too bad Trogly now avoids talking Gibson news unless it's positive for the brand, like how he dodged discussing last year's Dean / Armadillo lawsuit update. 🤘💀 Keep on Rocking everyone!
Howdy, thanks for reviewing a little bit of Canadian history!
Cheers 🍻
Yeah it doesn't sound too great, really interesting piece though.
As a Canadian l dig these being a once upon a time quirk collection.❤
that guitar was cheapend by using plastic braces,the wood braces would last and be much more resonant
Every natural material contracts or expands. This clever idea didn't quite work.
As for resonance it sounds fine for the price.
It was a composite material forced through an injection moulding process. 40%long strand glass 60%a secret sauce .. which I have no clue of . Have to ask Gibson now . They have the patents .
Thank you Steven
I owned a canadian gibson, it wasnt great, I sold it…
I didn't believe that there was such a thing as an 'over braced' acoustic guitar until I heard how flat and non-dynamic this Garrison sounds Austin...🤔
Those fret gaps are horrifying
A huge difference between this and the production models is the bracing material. This appears to be some kind of plastic as compared to the (black) glass fiber bracing system on the production guitars. This pobably accounts for the "muted" sound, as my Garrisons (I've owned 5 and currently have 2) all sound better than my Taylors and Martins. Also, the neck and heel block are an integrated part of the bracing system, at least it was until they changed to the wood bracing on the back, around the time Gibson bought the company. Another difference is that the production guitars had the Buzz Feiten tuning system. All that said, this is a great piece of history.
have played many garrisons being from newfoundland. they sounded great, and still do. gibson bought them out to accuire the patten for that brace system was what i was told as i used to spend abit of time at griffiths guitar shop
That top is to die for!! The medullary rays are outstanding!!
Strange, but my sister says that when she's shopping.
I remember in 2004 I was at a small guitar store up in cottage country Ontario and I played a Garrison AG-SP - a thinline Acoustic. I played it for about 15 minutes and being in my teens couldn't afford it. I went back a few months later and it was gone. I was never able to find one again.
All i can say is, i hope he didnt pay a lot for it.
When you first started, it sounded like Jimmy Page or the Beatles playing their old acoustics. Very very nice!
All plastic gets brittle after awhile. At least all I've delt with. Damn sure keep it out of the heat. Nope... way too jangley for me. Glad the owner really wants it. Though those few cords you picked,then stummed were nice. The Zeppelin worked pretty well too. Every instrument has it's place. Longevity will be determined by time.
Those aren’t scarf joints on the heel. It’s just a normal stack up.
Have you done any videos about luthier Roger Giffin. He worked for the Gibson Custom Shop in LA for many years and has since gone out on his own. Can u get your hands on one of his guitars?
This is the first time I've seen an acoustic on your show. Cool&Groovy Man, KeepSmiling!
Please try to do an episode on Frank Marino SG.
I wonder if he ever had a signature Model?
Different coefficients of expansion and contraction of materials will get you every time.
Nick Schilder is a Dutch musician who used to be in a musical duo called Nick & Simon. In the Netherlands they were often compared to Simon & Garfunkel. Nick had a few Garrison guitars that he appeared with everywhere, and it's probably one of those guitars that made me start playing guitar when I was 6
I own one of the Gibson DSMs (appears to be a prototype)... Incredible wood specs, solid mahogany back and side (with a nice ribbon flame), solid spruce top, ebony fretboard and bridge, abalone inlays and a mahogany neck. It does not have the plastic bracing, the bracing in mine is wood... Unfortunately the design is full of flaws, bolt on neck with no securing of the fretboard to the body (basically floating). Unfortunately I got mine on a very cold winter day and it did not include a case. Brought it home and the top immediately warped and the back cracked lol. The warp in the top exposed the fact that the previous owner had attempted to convert it to a set neck. As a guitar tech I cobbled it together to make it playable. Despite the flaws it plays and sounds incredible lol. Not sure why but it does lol. Whenever anyone asks if they should get one my answer is a resounding no... Buy a Taylor or low end Martin instead, the DSM is kinda a piece of junk made with good wood. Or save up and get a nice Gibson J45 lol.
Could’ve been a nice guitar if it had proper wood bracing and a more traditional finish. I think the plastic bracing led to the cracks on the top and contributed to the terrible sound.
I'd Never heard of these guitars until tonight! That's an interesting concept on how they were put together with the plastic skeleton too...
Made in St Johns Newfoundland Canada, Chris Griffits was the owner founder.
Garrison Keillor guitars! 🤗
I believe the first one had a fiberglass not plastic frame
i thought of you today, i live in nova scotia and we burn wood for heat, yesterday i split a log and the flame pattern was quite nice and i can side view cross section of how the wood gets that look, im taking macro photos today ill share with you if your interested. Enjoy.
I split some bought firewood last year and found a few pieces of choice birdseye maple. Saved some but was sad the pieces aren't big enough to do much with. Hey fellow Bluenoser.
I shop at that Music go round, we have another one a few miles from the St. Louis one.
Another store? Or another garrison prototype ? Just curious . Thanks !
@StephenLane-j7t another store, st Charles mo.
That thing sounds pretty good. Would make a cool recording guitar of the strum along with drums type.
This sounds reeaallyy good to my ear.
Firewood.
Well, I found the way you sound best! Your style is great with acoustics!
are you kidding me! My name is Garrison and I had a LP copy made and put a look alike Gibson logo on it spelling 'Garrison' You mean to to tell me I might have copyright infringement on my "Garrison" Vest Paul?
FYI .. it’s not plastic bracing . It’s a composite material forced through an injection moulding process . Has a 40% long strand glass fibres and 60 % secret sauce . Every have to give a speech at your best friends wedding and had to tap on your crystal wine glass to get everyone’s attention??? The glass provides an excellent source for sound to travel .
I wonder if this being a prototype, has the bracing actually made of plastic before the glass fiber material was used.
@ certainly may have ! This one as white bracing also which is weird . All I’ve seen is black .. some food for thought I guess
Interesting video. Thanks.
Huh, Trogly adds to twoodfrd’s occasional series on Canadian luthiers.
I am very old fashioned , I'd rather spend more money for real wood than to have PLASTIC inside my acoustic , though I can appreciate someone thinking outside the box , keep it coming Trogly ! Thanks !
If Garrison guitars is an outfit that Gibson absorbed into its own hierarchy, that gives me an idea. Is it possible that they could absorb Armadillo into the same hierarchy but continue to let Dean manufacture instruments under that brand name? That way, Gibson might actually consider diverting priorities away from arbitrary litigation and try earning profit by lowering the prices on their standard models so that they become affordable again. I honestly think that's how they are attempting to generate revenue, from continually taking the owners of Dean to court when they have priced themselves out of the market.
Talk of instruments originating in Canada, I'm going to mention this again. Knowing that you favor Gibson over Epiphone, I'm going to repeat that it would be excellent if you could procure, review and demo an instrument from Epiphone's Canadian-exclusive 2009 negative line. Those models could only be found during that one year in the retailer Long and McQuade.
I would like to hear you play a guitar before you have it set up and after you have it professionally set up. Just out of curiosity.
They're Ms Garrison now boys and girls.
In boutique industries it's not uncommon for one brand to acquire another simply to take it off the market. Usually it's a matter of acquiring a smaller competitor with a better product before they become big enough to pose a threat to your brand. In this case, I think this was a philanthropical move by Gibson to save the world from that hideous "bracing" thing. And for that, they have my appreciation.
This looks like something you'd buy at Toys r' Us except that it doesn't have a built in amp and speaker.
I get that it's somebody's thing, but I'll never understand why.
Wrong.
It was a highly creative innovation in a field of traditionalists.
They were unable to fully improve the concept- and it takes a mind with minimal imaginative sensibilities and negativity like yours to not see the familial relationships between the modern carbon fiber guitars and a Garrison guitar.
The fact that some random guy from *Newfoundland* thought this up and somehow made it happen is unbelievable
You are the type who openly criticizes prototypes and has zero vision
@Lomoholga2 Oh, boy; here comes another person who has the only valid opinion.
I bet it's lonely there in Mom's basement with nothing to do but be a keyboard warrior. Regardless, pick an argument with someone else because I'm not interested.
Just my opinion here, this may have sounded better with Silk and steel strings on it.
In closing. The guitar is junk lol
I have a Garrison G40
newfie guitar by
0:52 And the true *species, will set you free! 🎸 (*could be walnut)
I didn't hear much difference in the sound of the two guitars. Kinda early today, Trogs.
Bridge pad not sound board. The top is the sound board
Snuck in some Hootie and Led Zeppelin! 😎
The music store I worked at in the early 2000s sold them and my coworker became an endorsed artist for them. They had one major flaw. If you did not keep it constantly humiliated they too would drink and crack.
How did you humiliate them properly? Like a hidden camera video of them doing something shameful that you showed to their friends??
@@zombieparrot2606Not to mention the drinking 🥴 and cracking.
I humiliate my guitars just by playing them. They beg me to stop playing, but I laugh and tell them I’d like them better if they had P90’s. I’ve found negging really helps keep guitars in shape.
Howdy everyone!!!
On time tonight!
😎😎
Plastic bracing? Nah, hard pass!
Sounds sub par
Nice to see an acoustic guitar for a change 🙂
20:08. You like classical guitars, but do you own one ?
Oh well - there goes another good guitar company. No doubt gibson will double the price and half the quality as usual.
Edit: I take it back - that thing is rubbish lol. Where's the bass ? It sounds like a shallow bowl with cheap strings on. Oh well - I'm still curious to see how gibson manage to make it worse .
Hello from Alaska.
Mr Garrison!
❤
It's very rare that a guitar actually sounds cheap, but blimey this is thin and weedy and really unpleasant! Probably best played finger style. The pic really seems to exacerbate it's flaws.
Those Canibsons look so weird, not quite Chib and not quite Gib.
probably glass fiber reinforced plastic.
This might sound ridiculous Austin but I've heard of a Gibson toilet seat guitar is this true I mean it's on great finds
No Stairway to Heaven!!! 😂
I have one and quite the story of Gibson killing innovation
Waffles🧇Waffles🧇Waffles
Yupp
I was in hospital battling for life over close to 4 months. Doctors and nurses were telling my wife to get our, then, three young sons set up with grief counseling because they decided I wasn't gonna make it!
I would hear these conversations going on sometimes and I fought like an itchy bastard to finally fight to open my eyes ever so slightly and my wife got up close and heard me say "F**K Those Assholes, I'm Coming Home Baby...Tell Our Boys" and out I went for a few more weeks! That's what she thinks I said, I don't remember!
When I finally woke up and was getting stronger (it took two years to regain my full strength...close to it anyway) My wife and sons were visiting and it was only a week or so from the first time I fully woke up, and so they stayed with me for over 8 hours, as my wife told me.
They came back several more times and then the big day came when I was finally discharged. That was emotional because several awesome nurses, one who 100% saved my life...long story, all stood along the hallway to tearfully say goodbye...OK, I wasn't gonna include this but...what the hell!!
One of them abused me when she thought I was 100% out! I wasn't! She was washing me and took liberties with the hammer of...wounded Thor!! Nothing too creepy, she had a fist full of soap and just had a grab! I will NOT mention names but it rhymed with (Hoe-anne)
That one one out of seven others who somehow managed to resist...sigh...ok, I appreciated it!! I was dying, gimme a break! LOL!
So, remember that first 8 hour visit? Well, when my sons and wife helped me in the house I could NOT believe what I saw!! The day they visited for 8 hours, a dishwasher connection burst and when they got home, my middle son walked in first and saw waterfalls coming down from the main level to the front door foyer which is 7 steps down from the main level, then 14 steps down, waterfalls poured into the basement which had three inches or more of water!!
He also described waterfalls cascading down the open ceiling ductwork onto the basement floor!
The main floor was also obviously flooded and water leached up every wall (drywall) I had just built the house with my eldest son and some friends before I went in for "day surgery" when my bile duct was knicked and not noticed!! Ya, that chestnut!
I was close to death by early that next morning!
My stretcher was parked beside the MRA (I had been raced from CT Scan, to several different imaging machines before they pulled my staples and shoved my limp dying corpse in the MRI and they parked my stretcher beside the control room.
I managed to turn my head and saw the image showing a large, bright spot about the size of a golf ball...maybe a wee bit bigger, directly over my heart! As soon as I saw that I knew I was never going home again...my next thought was "F**K THAT, I GOT A SMOKING HOT WIFE AND FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN (a daughter a year old when I met my wife at a performance my band was putting on)
OK, now I'm bringing it on home!!!
The day that mother-flood puked all over my sweet new lakeside retirement home home, one of those cascading waterfalls coming down from a section of duct, was barfing her filthy load directly over my dearly beloved 12 string Norman I bought when I was 13!!
There was over $30,000 damage CDN back around 2001-3 can't remember the exact year. I was not able to stand, sit, lay down, get out of bed without help for a long ass time, and it took two plus years to fully recover! There were intermittent major surgeries after my pancreas rebelled, then kidneys didn't wanna be left out...traitors!
So, my pro lead vocals/writer/rhythm guitar playing days were over!
So, I used a portion of the insurance, which paid out for new replacement, on a Garrison G fiddy!
I TRIED SO HARD TO LIKE THAT GUITAR!!!
I hated it and about five or six years back I traded it along with a raggedy old Ibanez 200 for a brand new Epiphone Casino! Almost two years ago I sold the Casino and sold my Maritime Seagull, both awesome guitars and bought a new Epiphone Excellente!!
So, really, I swapped out a G 50 Garrison which I hated for a SWEET Epiphone Excellente!
BOING! SHWING!! HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!!!
Jack ~'()'~
Sounded bad!
Butter 🧈 Butter 🧈 Butter
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1 OR 2 Don't know what happened you guys are fast. Hey Trogly ok that makes sense it looks like a well maid guitar, I really never heard of these acoustics. Ya humidity is a problem with the wood and especially your necks
(Climate control) and I don't mean Global warming. lol. It sounds pretty good autisticly I guess. It's all in what you like and trust. Yes you were harping on it too! Well thats why I play bass.
But collect all. Thanx bud see ya!
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Yoo
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Terrible idea for bracing. Seems like a hunk of junk to me.
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Oh...a boring ass acoustic...😢