What Gibson Guitars Did with the Wood the Government Returned

American Thinker ^ | 2/2/2014 | Victor Keith

[rktman]

In 2011, the Department of Justice conducted raids on the Tennessee facilities of the famed Gibson Guitar company and confiscated large quantities of tonewood that had been imported from India and Madagascar. The action included armed SWAT teams, with automatic weapons, who apparently feared being garroted with a guitar string by an enraged Gibson employee. These raids were conducted due to the Lacey Act, which bans the importing of certain woods. The issue at hand was not that the wood was endangered or illegally harvested, but that it was not of the proper thickness that would have meant that some labor had been performed on it by workers in India and Madagascar.

[KevinB]

It’s bad enough when the comments are full of the misuse of “lead” in place of “led,

My favorite is "loose" for "lose".

[slouper]

I’m a little surprised anyone has yet to mention the word, shudder, Fender, in this conversation. I just picked up an American standard Strat with a rosewood fretboard in seafoam green (not Jeff Beck model)and it rules. There are choices.

[rktman]

Despite the politics of the whole mess, my strats all have maple neck/fret boards. My old Epiphone (circa ‘65) has a GASP! Brazilian rosewood fret board. Don’t have the receipt any longer so I best not take it out of the country out of fear of having it, uh, liberated upon my return. ;>}

[BykrBayb]

I was just reading comments on the latest Coke video. Coke went out of its way to insult Americans. One of the comments about the assault on our language was very good, until the last sentence. “We are loosing our American language and culture.” We are doomed.

[KevinB]

We are loosing our American language and culture

LOL!

[Pharmer1]

Yah, Rktman, I surfed over there. The Government series is cool. I’d get the Les Paul version for the sustaaaiiiinnnnnnnnn. :-)