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Do some Gibsons tend to get bigger cracks than guitars generally?

Are some Gibsons especially prone to get extreme cracks? Take a look at the pictures of this 2006

J-45:

http://www.finn.no/finn/torget/tilsalgs/annonse?finnkode=28880581

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No. That guitar suffered a traumatic incident. It's only 5 years old! I can't see the whole thing, but it doesn't look like there are sharp impact areas, just huge pressure cracks. Someone sat, fell, or stepped on it (possibly all three). It's all repairable though.
People may indeed be more likely to sit on Gibsons. . . .

I'd avoid this guitar like the black plague.

 

What's the MSRP on this guitar, like $3500 USD?  The interior work is abysmal on a guitar in that price range. Gibson's ignorance of the concept of quality strikes again.

 

@ Greg:  +1 Made me laugh.

Paul, year before last, I had a local sales rep at a store ask me if I was interested in buying either of the high end Gibsons up on the wall. One was a brand new Dove and the other a Southern Jumbo. Now, I have two vintage Gibsons at home, a '52 Southern Jumbo and a 69 Dove. And I had already  played both of the new guitars in question. I told the guy, that if he threw in brand new cases for both guitars, I would give him $600 bucks total. THAT is how abysmal the guitars were. Gaps between binding and fretboard, binding and neck, distorted lacquer were the fretboard tongue  attaches to the guitar, bridge on the Dove was SOOO high (the wood not the saddle) I had not a clue how mere Medium strings could overpower that huge amount of mass.  Two total pieces of crap that had reached 'escape velocity' from the factory merely by having the name "Gibson" on the headstock. They also  (even with new strings) sounded like they were stuffed with several yards of foam rubber. I could have sold the cases though....

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