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Location: Scotland | From the article...
"The term “Banner Era” comes from a small banner on the headstock of the guitars, just above the neck, that read, “Only a Gibson is Good Enough.” The banners were on the guitars only for four years, Thomas said.
“The banner appears the day the women walked in in 1942,” he said. “It disappeared the day they walked out in 1945.”
Gibson stopped using the banner logo because Epiphone, Gibson's biggest competitor at the time, started using the phrase "When good enough isn't good enough" in their advertising.
Pre-war non-banner headstock Gibsons are just as good if not better than the banner guitars. as were post war/early to mid '50's production. In fact many wartime Gibsons lacked truss-rods because metal was in short supply for anything but war-effort purposes, as was spruce. Many of the cheap to mid-price wartime flatops had mahogany substituted for spruce. Banner headstock Gibson are rare and generally excellent, but attributing their excellence to an (unskilled) female workforce strikes me as a little far-fetched. If anything, post-war changes in Gibson's quality had little to do with the sex of the builders and everything to do with corporate bean-counters. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Very interesting article. I 'm curious, and maybe I missed it at this early hour, but if "metal" was hard to get due to the war, what did they use for stings? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | cats |
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Location: enid, ok | Sound just like chicken... |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by maxdaddy7271:
Sound just like chicken... :D :D :D :D :D |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by BT717:
what did they use for stings? Bees |
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OT WWII Gibson
