What a waste... Gibson flood pictures

Rabs

Ohh man...  have you guys seen these pics before...  From when they had the huge flood a few years back...  Crazy 

http://archive.gibson.com/absolutenm/templates/FeatureTemplatePressRelease.aspx?articleid=1292&zoneid=6

http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r588/Rabs2010/2008 standard/flood-07_zps2zybpzo7.jpg

http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r588/Rabs2010/2008 standard/3007_n_zpsoo5gcxpy.jpg

Ravenous

Nah, that's the relicing department.

guitars4you

Am I being cynical, but do you think a few extra guitars could have been added to the 'damaged' stock for a bigger claim

seriously though that does look a big mess - how many could have been 'dried' out and sold or how many were totally beyond repair I don't know but does appear to be a waste

tony99

The pile of soggy gig-bags is particularly heart-wrenching

Whitecat

That's one way to take care of an inventory glut... bet they were hoping for floods in 2015 too.

RandallFlagg

That's not the flood damaged pile, that's the poorly aligned neck pile.

usedtobe

Oh, you guys!!!!

WezV

It's a shame because many of them do look like they could have been saved.... but they would need sanitising which may well damage them further.  


Simply not worth the risk of sending them out to customers.

fandango

Rabs said:

http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r588/Rabs2010/2008 standard/3007_n_zpsoo5gcxpy.jpg

This is sad to see. That they couldn't salvage any of these, I find it hard to believe. The fallout - losing the wood, paying the staff for lost productivity, lost sales - all puts an interesting gloss on the recent financial figures over the last few years. Yet they managed to overcome it all.

Skipped

Some have been saved.
I seem to recall reading that Keith Urban's early GT is better then ever after restoration.

prowla

They might've come in handy as paddles during the flood.

guitars4you

I suppose the issue of repair and restore is linked to the insurance valuation

Tell the insurance company they are a right off and you'll get pretty close to a 100% payout - tell them some can be repaired/restored, then the insurance payout will be less and you then have to pay staff, plus time involved, based on what might well be some long term projects

Rabs

fandango said:

Rabs said:

This is sad to see. That they couldn't salvage any of these, I find it hard to believe. The fallout - losing the wood, paying the staff for lost productivity, lost sales - all puts an interesting gloss on the recent financial figures over the last few years. Yet they managed to overcome it all.

Yeah same here... I would have quite happily taken a few of those and tried to dry them out or whatever ... I guess as mentioned above its not something they would take a chance over....

WezV

I wouldn't buy one without some certificate proving it had been sanitised properly.

fandango

WezV said:

I wouldn't buy one without some certificate proving it had been sanitised properly.

Yet we'd happily wang away on a used guitar bought off Fleabay ... 

Ravenous

fandango said:

WezV said:

I wouldn't buy one without some certificate proving it had been sanitised properly.

Yet we'd happily wang away on a used guitar bought off Fleabay ... 

Now you mention it the Bullseye ones would make great novelty clocks. (Only half kidding.)

ICBM

WezV said:

It's a shame because many of them do look like they could have been saved.... but they would need sanitising which may well damage them further.  

Simply not worth the risk of sending them out to customers.

This.

Many years ago I had to do an insurance assessment on a (once) lovely old Gibson acoustic which had been in a river flood, possibly with some sewer backflow involved. It wasn't a good sign that the case came into the shop taped up in bin bags…

I took one look and closed it up again. It absolutely stank. Even assuming that the warped and split wood and opened-up joints had been repairable, you'd never have got the smell out of it. I simply gave a total write-off valuation - sad, but unavoidable.

WezV

fandango said:

WezV said:

I wouldn't buy one without some certificate proving it had been sanitised properly.

Yet we'd happily wang away on a used guitar bought off Fleabay ... 

Hopefully most used guitars haven't been exposed to sewage, but I have seen some where I couldn't be sure

mort

I thought it was a picture of the current Amazon Warehouse stock?

SidNewton

You sure this isn't a pic from their quality control department. 'Yep, put them in the back of the truck, they're ready to ship'.

dindude

Nah, they just been taking lessons on guitar storage from Yngwie Malmsteen - have a look at this vid from about 1:45 in.