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Gibson Guitars Under Investigation For Using Illegal Wood
Last week, the headquarters for Gibson guitars was raided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and until this week details as to why were murky. It turns out Gibson is under investigation for making their guitars with rosewood, a wood that is illegal, and may have shipped the wood from Madagascar via Germany. The wood is very expensive (double the price of mahogany) and it is illegal to import due to environmental and corruption concerns involved with its deforestation in Madagascar. Gibson is claiming that they don't use illegal wood knowingly, and they plan to fully cooperate with the investigation. [Spinner]
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"Do you respect wood?" Apparently not, Gibson, apparently not.
lmao. larry david is the only guy i know that respects wood.
leon
Rosewood isn't illegal in the US!! It's the importation from Madagascar through Germany that is illegal as of a trade embargo... Much like Cuba and it's cigars. Bringing it through Germany was to fool customs officers into thinking it was imported from a legal place.
Billy rosewood
Careful before you jump on the "guilty as charged" bandwagon, which is easy to do with a target as large (and easy to dislike) as Gibson. These guys buy their wood from certified sellers, most of who they know, but they're constantly searching and reaching out to new sources...Gibson's weekly output is gigantic and if they run out of wood for fretboards, production stops. If a wood seller has falsified his certification status, who is the easier target to charge and make headlines... some unknown wood seller in Germany? Or Gibson? The truth will come out in the ensuing investigation.
loud rawk