If you want to see hundreds of Gibson guitars being crushed here's your chance

Irish Guitarist

I just came across this and thought I'd share it here. Gibson couldn't sell their Firebird X guitar so ran over hundreds of them. It's an absolutely disgusting waste of wood and other resources. They didn't even take any of the pickups, bridges or machine heads off.

Here's a longer video that has an interview with the uploader of this video who apparently is or was a Gibson employee.

And here's a video of someone stepping on and sawing up Gibsons by hand.

The Master

Was looking at this last night
Disgraceful stuff

Gibson again making themselves look like assholes after the "play authentic" nonsense

Charities and schools everywhere would have been delighted to have them.
Even if the guitars were faulty the hardware could have been saved and donated

Passenger

Peculiar way to court publicity. Hardly going to endear themselves with cheap YouTube stunts like that.

The Master

Gibson has released the following statement in response to this video.

“The Firebird X destruction video that surfaced months ago was an isolated batch of Firebird X models built in 2009-2011 which were unsalvageable and damaged with unsafe components. This isolated group of Firebird X models were unable to be donated for any purpose and were destroyed accordingly.

More nonsense

Rented Mule

Gibson has released the following statement in response to this video.

“The Firebird X destruction video that surfaced months ago was an isolated batch of Firebird X models built in 2009-2011 which were unsalvageable and damaged with unsafe components. This isolated group of Firebird X models were unable to be donated for any purpose and were destroyed accordingly.

I haven't heard of any recall for any existing Firebird Xs that are owned by the public. Surely, there must a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

population

Very silly of Gibson. Again.......

boring accountant

This is going to be Gibson's Abercrombie and Fitch moment.