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Loved the Interview with the creator Murphy himself! Really interesting to learn the work behind something like this including all the technicall research behind it.

@gibson

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@mikeycroucher4299

6 ай бұрын

​@@gibsoncan you do Roy Orbison's ES-335 please in lh and right , they brought out elvis and the everlys brothers, but none in left hand, roys would be awesome ❤

Really enjoyed the presentation. You did some nice pick and finger style playing on all the guitars except the SJ-200, and relegate it to being a "struming" guitar. And, yes, it's a great strummer. But, as an owner of said guitar, I do quite a bit of finger picking with it -- and it's great! The guitar is an orchestra and can really project a nice round warm sound for finger picking, that I just love. So, next time you do a presentation using the SJ-200, please give an example of the richness of tone you can achieve in finger picking. Thank you so much! (Again, loved the video.) Tim M.

These are cool, but here's my issue. In 1942 a Gibson J-45 built in Kalamazoo sold retail for $45 USD ($882 in 2023 dollars, adjusting for inflation). Today if you ask Gibson, it's counterpart would be the modern J-45 Standard which sells for $2999, which is, even accounting for inflation over three times what the J-45 cost in 1942. But what's especially annoying is that the $2999 Standard series J-45 is not even up to the same standard as the J-45 that sold for $45 in 42'. No to get that quality, the buyer has to spend about $5000 to get the Gibson custom shop 1942 banner... There's something very, very off on this pricing. The Standard series J-45 may should cost $3000 in 2023, but it should be built to the same quality standards as that $45 1942 original for $3000. By requiring a custom shop guitar to get to what was the standard series quality, I feel like Gibson is admitting their standard series build quality is nowhere near what it once was, yet they don't mind pricing them as if they were three times the original quality.... Does this make sense to anyone? Is it any surprise why so many players are turning to smaller boutique builds?

@Lalairu

8 ай бұрын

Totally agree, the prices are crazy.

@frankwebster9110

6 ай бұрын

I wonder how many guitar players are actually going to watch a video about how destruction of a guitar gives it better tone. Count me out. Snake oil is alive and well

@hinely766

6 ай бұрын

I'll take that $3000 guitar. Oh, can you make the metal oxidize and rusty? Also, dent and scratch the body. Now it's $5000? Cool! @@frankwebster9110

@RainbowsIntheDark-ht6cu

3 ай бұрын

I kind of agree with you, but also these guitars have a thermal aging process which guitars from 1942 would not have had. So it makes more sense to compare these guitars to guitars that's been naturally aged. When you look at it that way, it's at least better value than buying a vintage hummingbird, etc.

@rmzzz76

3 ай бұрын

@@RainbowsIntheDark-ht6cu Standard series doesn't have thermal aging on the tops, just the Historic collection. Also, that process is not that expensive, Taylor is even offering now on their newer 100 series models like the 117e, which is a sub $1000 guitar.

Why not compare the Murphy Lab acoustic guitars with their non-Murphy Lab acoustic counterparts?

@viniciuseduardobomfim

Ай бұрын

Because they know the current ones will get smoked 😂

@rickyanthony

Ай бұрын

Because this is all this cosmetic rubbish

Is there any difference in daily care with the special finish? Specifically humidification after market polishes?

Man I truly understand and appreciate Murphy's Lab effort and hard and Amazing job they're doing but the price:(((((((((((( why will I never be able to have one:(((((((((

Hey I have a 1930 L-1 and I’ve had a 36 L-00 both fantastic guitars. The prices on these MLs is getting close to what the real thing costs. Humm🤔 Oh forget to mention I got a 36 Advanced Jumbo CS. It really is a pleasure to play. Love the thermally aged top. It’s not a ML but I could not afford the real thing in that guitar. I think there were very few actually made back in the 30s. Huge Gibson fan.

Great video. Interview was amazing! I want one! Are any parts made in China including the case? Would be a deal breaker for me.

I love them all. Unfortunately, my dream guitar has always been a J-200, but in black or in an aged natural finish. Fortunately, I wouldn’t be able to afford one anyway. 😬 I do miss the Dove in this series AND (my favorite) an LG-2. I’d kill for a black LG-2, but I’m sure everybody will have certain wishes and I understand you can’t do them all. ❤

The Gibson L-00 and the Gibson J-200. Martin killers 😎 notice my avatar. I’m playing my 1937 Martin 0-17 I’m 69 years old now, and I’m 24 years old in my avatar

These are great but can you please offer them without the aging? The black L-00 with that purple interior case is a must have .

@jjmuni

20 күн бұрын

They do.

You just gotta play one y’all! Its expensive for sure but the sound is amazing!!!

Forget the vintage guitar--how do I get the hair??

Strangely this j 45 banner sounds really bad, very different from other online reviews, I don't know if it's the guitar, the player or the specific guitar but after the luck I had with a 2022 standard I think at this ridicolous price it's better to choose a good one in person

Or just inherit an originally purchased vintage 1938 Gibson L5 "G.U.T." guitar with original natural finish and original white pickguard with original receipt from your Great Uncle Tony! Thank you, Lord!

never seen a person with a guitar on his lap without touching the strings...

No Dove? 😢

@gibson

9 ай бұрын

You never know what might be next!

@sapelopelo

9 ай бұрын

@@gibson A giveaway to your favourite Uruguayan?

@mariodriessen9740

9 ай бұрын

@@gibson : A Dove and an LG-2 please! There’s more, but I don’t want to look greedy. 😬😬😬

ill be honest, ive been a les Paul player since 1976. my first was a 76 les paul standard tabacco sunburst. 47 year later i still love it and the others ive bought. i do play acoustics have a 73 ovation beautiful guitar. gibson has beautiful acoustic guitars not dought but i want a nice new guitar and i dont want to pay twice the price for a murphy lab any guitar period. ruin beautiful new guitars is not my idea of fun. ill never buy any murphy aged guitar. ever. let time do its natural aging not tom murphy!!

@Joey_McElroy

9 ай бұрын

Do you genuinely believe they ruined the guitars? They sure sound good to me, they don’t sound ruined? Sure it’s not for everyone…but ruined? I love the look of an old guitar that has aged over its life. They have gotten better over the years…to make one look so convincing isn’t ruining the instrument, it a form of art, it’s a talent. Plus sometimes old guitars, especially flat tops can need a lot of work, like they said in the video, fret work, resetting the neck, repairing bracing. But with this you get the look of an old Gibson without having to worry about all the old problems. Seems everyone wants to talk crap about the modern aged Gibsons, but for some reason they just keep selling them…seems to me it’s cool for people to say they don’t like aged guitars, let them age themselves. But the reality as a business if it wasn’t selling they won’t keep doing it. Idk 🤷‍♂️ I’ll buy one. And seems alot of other will buy them too.

This reminds me of a forger who fakes famous paintings selling them as real.

Murphy Lab stuff are one of the biggest rip-offs in modern history. Even a rookie with farsightedness working at Fujigen Gakki can do a better job than this old coot, and it will cost five times less. Gibson is doing overtime on this planet, to say this husk of a company is a joke, would be an offense to comedy itself.

What is the supposed physics behind using hyde glue versus some other glue and it's alleged embellishments to tonal quality? The same question can be asked about the "nitro" lacquer. First, it's nitrocellulose lacquer. I don't know any finishers outside of the guitar world calling it "nitro", other than that it sounded cool, initially, and now everyone in the guitar world uses this term. I'll tell you this, I could lay down a nitrocellulose finish, or a precatalyzrd finish, or a polyester, and no one will hear the difference in tone, other than a perceived difference. This is such a wive's tale There ONLY difference in tone - one which you didn't mention, will come from aged woods. Your "aging" is all cosmetic, fake as the salesmanship hype snd fluff used to sell it. What's my bona fides? I'm both a guitar player AND a wood finisher. Anyone can be a wood finisher, true. But not everyone is a Gibson fanboy or afficiando, and not every finisher understands the process of a liquid resin knitting itself together to form a continuous film, "shrinkwrapping" the woods that it sits on. Last and least of my peeves, "...like I said." If you're going to do sales, don't be so unwashed. It's"as I said." I love the guitars. I love the finishing. I hate the hype. Most, I hate the misleading information. Hyde glue is great for many reasons, one of those reasons is reversablity. Nitrocellulose is great for many reasons, one of them is it looks as good ss it smells when it's done right. It polishes nicely, too. I thought that this video would delve into wood technology or something in depth. Nope, to use a colloquial expression that even I use, lol. Try this word on for size and see if the shoe fits, "hogwash".

@frankwebster9110

6 ай бұрын

This all reminds me of snake oil salesman going town to town selling stuff that everybody has already and slapping a logo on it and claiming it as something miraculous. I'm so tired of this dog sht

My 43 j45 banner hog no trust rod sounds a million times better than these fakes!

@ChristopherHolmgren

2 ай бұрын

And costs multiple times more...if available at all.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated and overpriced!

@teslapete4461

6 ай бұрын

Wait until you add a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard...🙄 They charges insane amounts of money for basically a scrap piece of BRW. Idiotic.

Now having guitars that chip easily is a feature LOL What Idiocy, only Gibson...

@deanmccaskill5495

7 ай бұрын

And Martin

banner years...........made by possibly the most unskilled group of people who ever made Gibson guitars..........no thanks.........that being said I love Gibson acoustics and recently bought a Koa hummingbird that is spectacular......but I think they are reaching here.......

Totally rip-off

@dv8322

2 ай бұрын

Why not compare the Murphy Lab acoustic guitars with their non-Murphy Lab acoustic counterparts? 🤔

@ChristopherHolmgren

2 ай бұрын

Gibson isn't breaking ground here. This has been done by other companies for ages, only now Gibson is doing it to their own products.

@dv8322

2 ай бұрын

@@ChristopherHolmgren Still a rip-off.

I just dont know about the name . Does Murphys law also apply here. Sounds like gimmick. I mean how much zre you exspected to pay for a torrefaction process and period correctness ,whe a company like east nan does it so much cheaper and just as well.