More ESP Ripoffs.....

[Zerberus]

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ESP is the mother of stealing other companies guitar shapes... they didnt do anything on their own.. wait, they did.. the devil girl.. >.< i dont need to say anything more, do i?

gibson sued them for using the explorer shape, but then they made it a bit pointier and pretty much screwed up the shape so that it looks just wrong, just to keep selling them

ESP just has the bigger endorsement fund.. so they can afford ripping off other manufacturers, cos people will buy them for the same reason they buy ibanez guitars.. cos well known people play them. doesnt matter if it suits their needs or not and there are a couple of people getting them for themselves, not just cos vai or whoever rips on it

ESP has also been sued by Fender, Jackson, PRS and numerous others for trademark infringement BTW. Getting sued seems to be one of the things they do best

every single company except gibson and fender is a rip off company. including jackson. you cant possible say that their main guitar shape is not inspired by the double horns of the strat

Yes I can. The shape that jackson was built on was the "concorde" aka. Randy Rhoads. The shape is inspired, if anything, by the Flying V :fing25: :dance:

 

[beandip]

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hey dime, yahoo.

 

[xerxes]

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Yes I can. The shape that jackson was built on was the "concorde" aka. Randy Rhoads. The shape is inspired, if anything, by the Flying V :fing25: :dance:

when i said main guitar shape i had the soloist/dinky shape in mind.


but then again, they took the rhoads shape from the v....

 

[Davey]

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when i said main guitar shape i had the soloist/dinky shape in mind.


but then again, they took the rhoads shape from the v....

wrong, they took the rhoads shape from rhoads.. it doesnt matter what he based it on ..

 

[Metalblaze]

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The most important is, if you like a guitar you buy it. The built quality is more important than who copys who. When jackson took the strat shape for the soloist, for some was an improvement and for some didn't. So when a company produces a model based on another, you check if they do it better or worse (of course that's subjective). I like both of these companies. Don't forget that behind these sueings are big economic interests. Big Japanese companies invaded in the american market and the american companies don't like this at all (I read it somewhere). Sorry for any mistakes in my english.