PATRICK OGLE: The Gibson Blues King. What do we say it was again? The LL?

ROB WARMOWSKI: L-00.

PATRICK OGLE: Okay. Gibson Blues King, the L-00. This -- The first reaction that I had to this guitar was kind of an eye roll, and but you have to realize that the person that's sitting here with this guitar in his lap, I play pretty much just chords. I play notes, you know, every presidential election or so, so, and I never play slide, and so this may be something -- this may be a guitar that's more appropriate for a different style but I just don't think it sounds that good, especially since it lists $2,700 and some change. You can probably get it for less than that like $1,800, maybe a little bit more than that, but it just it still just doesn't sound -- It sounds like just -- It just doesn’t sound that great to me.

I have a Takamine guitar, a 3/4 sized one, and it sounds way better than this one, and I'm not in love with that guitar either, but it looks good. It's well made. It's got a spruce top, mahogany back and sides. Like most Gibson guitars, it's you can feel that it's solidly made. It's well braced. It's not like a cheap guitar, and it looks good, and it plays nice, but it just doesn't sound very good, especially not for the price.

And I'm sure there'll be other people that will say things like well if you raise the action and, you know, bust out the slide, it sounds great. I talked to this -- about this guitar a little bit with John Ross. He plays -- He's a slide guitarist in Bloodshot Records, plays slide, Hawaiian, and so I mentioned this guitar to him, and he said the reason that these guitars weren't around that long, the reason that they're old guitars and they started reissuing them, the reason they weren't around, you know, perpetually is that they weren't very good. But he said that if somebody would take this guitar and play the hell out of it for 10 years, then he's like it might start sounding good, and I think maybe that's what we're talking about for this.

Maybe as time goes on, like the Hummingbird that we've talked about or that orange that we talked about, I don't know. You can smell the lacquer on this guitar. It's like it's brand new. So, that's another thing that you have to think of when you're buying an expensive guitar is it's like buying a bottle of wine. It's not just what it's going to -- what it is right now. It's what it's going to be in 10 years. I know that's kind of tough when you're dropping and you're putting down $2,000 but you do have to think of that. You do have to think ahead if you're not -- if you're looking, you know.

It is like a bottle of wine. If you're looking to buy something to drink right now, you go down to the, you know, the grocery store and spend 12 bucks. If you're, you know, looking to put something away for your 20th wedding anniversary, you may be spending a little bit more, but it' also being able to tell, and you know, I make no claim that I can a hundred percent tell you that this is going to be a good guitar later but if John Ross says so, says it's possible, then I believe him.