Hellrot: с вами согласен,он бутербродный.Да я и не отрицал этого,но качество инструмента от этого не страдало.Только после 75 года начались кидания и бросания из стороны в сторону,как вы изволили выразиться и качество начало страдать из-за этого.
А матчасть я знаю!!!
Так что вы не правы!!!!
Ох...вечно же нужно доказывать свою правоту.

По-аглицки наверняка читаете...

On Dec 19, 1969 Ecuadorian Company Ltd (ECL) bought controlling interest in Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI) which owned Gibson. The new company was named Norlin. Gibson was Norlin's last musical company asset to be sold off, in January 1986.
Changes timeline (note: changes don't happen on Jan 1st, there are always variants):
PRE-NORLIN
- 1965 - headstock angle changes, chrome replaces nickel hardware, brazillian is no more.
- 1968 - re-release of the Les Paul, GT with P90s and Black Custom. Long tenon. Wide binding.
- 1969 - wide headstock, wide binding, 3pc neck, pancake body, trans tenon. Deluxe introduced to use up the mini hums left over from sending Epiphone offshore.
NORLIN
- 1970 - volute, Made In USA stamp, confusing serial numbers start.
- 1974 - Standards reintroduced, 'white' Customs, 20th Anniversary Customs (the first anniv issue from a guitar mfg).
- 1975 - necks change to maple, short tenon introduced, Nashville plant starts building LPs in conjunction with Kalamazoo. Serial number changes to decal.
- 1977 - end of pancake body. Decal serials still used, also the start of the modern 8 digit serial numbers.
- 1981 - end of volute
- 1983 - start of weight relief holes
- 1984 - final production at Kalamazoo in June
- 1985 - end of 3 pc neck
И из открытых источников:
The 70s to todayIn 1969 Gibson parent Chicago Musical Instruments was taken over by a South American brewing conglomerate, E.C.L., which changed its name to
Norlin Inc. (for ECL president Norton Stevens and CMI president Maurice Berlin). This began
an era widely perceived as being characterized by corporate mismanagement and decreasing product quality similar to Fender's period under CBS ownership.
Between 1974 and 1984 production of Gibson guitars was shifted from Kalamazoo to Nashville, Tennessee.
Early Nashville-built guitars suffered from both inexperienced workers, and climate-control problems in the humid South. The Kalamazoo plant was kept going for a few years as a custom-instrument shop, but was closed in 1984.[8]
The Gibson Guitar Corp. was within three months of going out of business before it was bought by Henry E. Juszkiewicz, David H. Berryman, and Gary A. Zebrowski in January 1986.[9] The survival and success of Gibson today is largely attributed to this change in ownership.
... и добавил:Тем не менее, чтобы не грести всех под одну гребенку, можно предположить, что качество Вашего конкретного инструмента отличное - я на ней не играл, чтобы говорить, что оно плохое.
