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#181 User is offline   zebbedee 

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 01:14 PM

View PostFraccy, on 05 May 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

I've mostly given up following the prices on a monthly basis (but in my opinion the outlook is the best its been since 2007), however I just read this on the BBC and found it so amusing I'm determined to post it here for posterity. Haven't read thread apologies if its already here:



Oh god its killin me :lol: :lol: :lol:

I read that and thought 'what the trend taken from 2003 :lol: :lol: :lol:
As I wandered in the darkness a voice came unto me, it said "smile, be happy, things could get worse". So I smiled and was happy and behold, things did get worse.

"Credit is indeed vital to an economy, but it does not constitute an economy within itself. ... When businesses borrow to fund capital investments, the extra cash flows that result are used to repay the loans. When individuals borrow to spend, loans can only be repaid out of reduced future consumption."-Peter Schiff, Jan 19 2009; <a href="http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schiff/schiff011909.html" My link

"The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."-Andrew Jackson on the Second Bank of the United States

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."-Margaret Thatcher

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad." - James Madison

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 01:31 PM

View PostLimpet, on 05 May 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

Any tips on how to spot the fake Gibsons?



Best one is to unscrew the truss rod cover on the headstock.
You're looking for a male acorn type brassy coloured nut on the end that requires a special tool.
If it has a normal allen key hex female end ala Fender etc, its a fake.
There are other tips even right down to the colour of the pickup screws.
Also, if you ask for a serial number and it comes out as July 2005, be very suspicious indeed.
The serial no will check out and be recognised on dating sites but i think they just made a batch with the same number on.

The fake i had (LP Custom Black Beauty) totally took me in, and i've been buying guitars since the mid 80's.
I was lucky i got my £1100 back.
Very lucky.

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 05:09 PM

View Postshindigger, on 05 May 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Best one is to unscrew the truss rod cover on the headstock.
You're looking for a male acorn type brassy coloured nut on the end that requires a special tool.
If it has a normal allen key hex female end ala Fender etc, its a fake.
There are other tips even right down to the colour of the pickup screws.
Also, if you ask for a serial number and it comes out as July 2005, be very suspicious indeed.
The serial no will check out and be recognised on dating sites but i think they just made a batch with the same number on.

The fake i had (LP Custom Black Beauty) totally took me in, and i've been buying guitars since the mid 80's.
I was lucky i got my £1100 back.
Very lucky.


Thanks for that, I shall be on the lookout.
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