| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] MAS its laminate for Gods sake! | | Date: | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 05:09:02 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Apologies to Poob for non reso content but dang Ken, what are you smoking these
days? AND WHERE CAN I GET SOME???
(Lord help me I try to stay in "lurk mode" but y'all just keep yankin' muh
chain).
Thanks for a good laugh Ken, loved DeNeve's new "hot rodded" formica
formula.......too funny!
Richie
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From: kbrown@mail.utexas.edu
> I had a dream last night. Jerry Douglas ordered a dobro made out of particle
> board and Formica from [INSER NAME OF MAKER HERE], and when it came, took it
> out on tour with AKUS.
>
> Well, as it happened, it sounded darn good. I mean Jerry was playin' it, what
> did you expect? In fact, it sounded *really* good. Rob Ickes heard him play it
> and ordered one. Randy Kohrs ordered one, too, and took it out on tour with
> Dolly Parton (Dolly just loved it -- said she "grew up with Formica and
> Tupperware").
>
> Dick DeNeve started researching Formica, and came up with a slightly modified
> formula that improved significantly on the sonic qualities of the material.
> Charlie Campbell explained it all to us. Production was a little slow at first,
> because the construction industry in the area affected by Katrina and Rita was
> consuming a lot of the particle board, but eventually production caught up with
> demand, especially after the manufacturers started sending imported mahogany,
> rosewood and koa logs directly to the particle board plants.
>
> Eventually all the major luthiers in the US and Canada, from Beard to Yanuziello
> were offering the particle/Formica (or "PF" models as they came to be known)
> instruments either as standard models or options. The Paul Beard web site
> explained that "you can order any color you want, as long as it's black." The
> Chinese began importing them under the "Presley Pressbord" brand name, selling
> them through Guitar Center.
>
> And then the inevitable happened. You guessed it...
>
> Gibson bought the rights to the Formica brand name, and began suing all the
> major luthiers making the PF dobros. All were driven out of business except the
> Chinese, who simply ignored international trademark law (it later developed that
> the Chinese owned Gibson, anyway).
>
> And then the alarm went off.
>
> Ken Brown
> Austin, Texas
>
> I have a square neck and it's made of this primitive stuff called maple.
> The ListOwner is poobah@resoguit.com
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