Rumor floating around that they are going to be discontinued. My question pertains to USA Production Firebirds. Here is part of my original question and his reply to my question about Firebirds being discontinued. Mat works in Product Development for Gibson. The name of the Gibson guy I mentioned in my previous post is Mat Koehler. To further explain, the following post came from The Les Paul Forum. The same employee said that the reverse models will come back in a couple of years. They are going to bring out a USA production non reverse Firebird, most likely in 2022. The word from a Gibson employee is that the reverse Firebirds are temporarily being discontinued. The ceramic pickups in the older Birds are actually great pickups if you take the time to dial them in with your amp settings, tweak your OD pedals and finally, USE YOUR TONE CONTROLS!!! If you want to go used, great, you'll find something out there below 2K, but not much below.
Years ago, I had 8 Historic Les Pauls when they were very reasonably priced, but they are gone now. I am a man on the dreaded retired fixed income and realistically, I can't afford a Custom Shop anything, but I'm ok with that. Certainly, there are used Custom Shop Birds out there and they sell for decent prices. The Kauer is a great guitar but they are going in the mid 4's last time I looked. Let's face it, Gibson Custom shop guitars, any model are seriously overpriced. I have played several and they are very true to the originals. Additionally, the Custom Shop Birds are excellent guitars. Do not close your thinking towards the 2021 Gibson Bird. I also have an 02, 09 and 17 with traditional carved headstock and banjos. I have no problem with the flat headstock, I've got a 2019 FB I and one of the Epiphone Inspired by Gibsons Birds and it's cool. Obviously, the flat headstock is aimed at cutting production costs and many people don't like banjos.
Lamar, with all due respect, there were Firebirds built in the 1965 year with flat headstocks. Are they unaware that Kauer makes a much better bird, or is Gibson trying to take some of that market back with their Murphys Oil Lab? I'm a Gibson man, but I don't see Gibson making a guitar better than the Banshee, and definitely not for $3,000. I see that Gibson is focusing heavily on the Custom Shop Firebirds. Off to the used market it is.Īs an aside. Bad pickups can be swapped, a bad headstock design cannot be swapped. But like a few others noted, they screwed up with the new "Inspired by Epiphone" headstock on a $2,000 guitar. Musicians Friend says that the 2021 Gibson USA Firebird will be available in July.
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