DangerousR6 said:
After 50 yrs Gibson finally figured out that there's more woods out there than just mahogany and flame maple......
Where'd the 50 years come from? Gibbys been around for more than 100! And they've used maple, mahogany, birch, BALSA (chromite), poplar, ebony, rosewood, korina, ash, alder, and all those "smartwood" types that I cant even remember.
There was a time in the 70's when they were making alder bolt on guitars - varietals of the S-1 and Marauder. Poplar has been the sandwhich wood for the ES laminate body guitars, since day one. Chromite (balsa) has been the center block of the ES body guitars that had center blocks, like the ES137 and ES139, (ES125, ES127, etc etc), with the exception of the ES33x series which had maple blocks. Korina... we all know korina. Ash on the RD series, and SG, and LP, and Explorer, and V. <-- the Voodoo line was all ash, btw. They had some ash solid bodies in the 70's too. More bolt on madness from Gibson. And the list goes on....
Nice guitar, but I think you jumped the gun on the commentary.