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In Tony's defense, I believe the Miller's daughter was busier than heck, and sub-contracted to Rapunzel rather than lose the business to an offshore sweat shop.

Alex

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Alex is right of course. The miller's daughter was too busy.

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Sorry, sorry, sorry!! Didn't mean to lead anyone astray; we all know that neither of these ladies had a clue as to how to spin straw into gold!
It was, of course, Rumpelstiltskin who did the spinning...
pvg

True, but it really sounds better to have a couple of pretty girls doing the spinning, and from a marketing standpoint it would be much more $$ profitable$$. Maybe if Helen of Troy weren't so busy....

Alex

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At Costa Guitars, we dont check facts. We make them up.

FYI: We recently secured Gary Busey, the apparent king of acronysms, for out TACT staff. Check out his work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amIh-Jovulw

GENIUS!!! Practically every word is an acronym in his world!! He will fit in well here.

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I guess you're right; after all the original post was about marketing strategy; glad we're still on subject
pvg

Gary has truely become GENIUS since he took to riding his motorcycle without a helmet!

Alex

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Has anyone here ever played a schenk guitar?

Look guys ya'll been prochen things wrong, it is the truss rod that is MOST important: more important than the sound board bracing...
http://www.schenkguitars.com/innovations/truss-rod

achieveive the SHANKENK sound...




I'd still rather have a Flushtone. Hope your still lurkin Bud...

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Looks like the guy makes some slick, if somewhat overhyped, guitars. As for AG Magazine much like the local rag 'New Times' that runs a yearly Best Of...along with the corresponding call to get you to advertise. The 'winners' of these things always seem to have some nice, shiny ads don't they?

Inspiration comes in many, often strange, forms.


Truss rods, eh? Well here at Costa Guitars, we use crystals from Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Beat that. We were kind enough not to use Kryptonite so that Superman can enjoy our instruments too. He is however, reduced to a blabbering baby when he hears one of our guitars, much like "Double Rainbow" guy, when he sees a full double rainbow or when he hears one of our guitars.
Dont know who "Double Rainbow" guy is? Here is a link so you can educate yourselves:


And here is the "Double Rainbow" re-mix by DJ somethingorother


Truss rods, Superman crystals, and double rainbow guy crying. At Costa Guitars, we dont let you down.

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Is that Mahavishnu John McLaughlin playing a double neck Costa in the back track? So good, I think my ears are bleeding! What's next Billy Crystals

Alex

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Yeah, I've played 3 of them. One of them which was priced at around $20,000 at a NAMM show a couple years ago,
was great. In my opinion, the others were average and from what I recall were both in the $8-$12,000 range.

Especially when every single piece of leather is brand new Filippo. Total n00bs.
At Costa Guitars and fine leather goods, we run over all of our motorcycle leathers before we sell them using a steamroller, bulldozer, and my mom's minivan. The n00b sheen is gone before you buy them!


We don't do double tops or 10 tops. Our newest innovation is....wait for it.....









No tops! Well, there actually is a top, but it is made out of transparent aluminum created with a formula pilfered from the cinematic classic: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The plot of which goes a little something like this: To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and his crew go back in time to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.

Costa Guitars: Star Trek, time travel, alien probes, humpback whales, Shatner and transparent aluminum. There is something for everyone at Costa Guitars.
Would you like that in pictures? Fine!
Star Trek:

Time travel:

alien probes:

Humpback whales:

Shatner:

Transparent aluminum guitar tops:

Something for everybody:



And of course, we still have the other stuff I mentioned earlier plus much, much more. For example I am in talks to acquire a large quantity of 12 inch wide copper shielding tape. I can not disclose details here publicly, but lets just say I will be getting it for a lower than low, rock bottom, super-discounted, never before heard of, unimaginable, virtually negligible price!

So save your pennies, return some empty cans, kill grandma, whatever it takes. Just get the scratch together to buy a Costa.

Costa Guitars: When you want invisible tops, Rumpelstiltskin, and better than the best.

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Part of my inspiration for keeping this thread going was the beak-less pearl eagle thread in the classifieds. As a result, I was particularly giddy, in a very school girl-esque fashion, when I realized I could tie in Albdarned's thread from the classifieds. Plus, I am stuck home with a broken foot, so I need to entertain myself.

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duplicate post.

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I'm new to this forum, but I immediately realize that this thread deserves a bump.

...and there is currently a "Blowout Sale" going on at Schenk Guitars. His Insignia Ophirio, which regularly sells for $15,500, is now at the blowout price of only $7990.

I would like to play one of his guitars though. They look really nice. I won't be tradin' in the car for one anytime soon though.

Yeah. This was a funny thread!

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I'm ready for some discount schtick !

Alex

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You boys shouldn't pick on Stench guitars. His Inferio model was selected to be bonified. Which of Y'all can say that?

Bonified schmonified.
At Costa Guitars, we don't lower prices when we have a guitar in our inventory, we RAISE them! That's right. The logic to this is flawless. The more something costs, the more exclusive people think it is, thus, the higher the demand becomes for said object among the rich and famous. As a result, you will only see a Costa sitting in inventory for a few seconds if at all.
It's all part of the master plan at Costa Guitars. I can say no more on this without getting a confidentiality agreement from anyone who reads this.

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PM me with the details, Tony.

Alex

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Alex,
I accidentally sent the PM with the details of my Master Plan before I received your non disclosure agreement (notarized and in triplicate of course) so could you please save me the trouble of sending out my hit squad and just go ahead and hook yourself up with some hari kari. Thanks bro! I got you this for the occasion:


Not a real knife...just a picture. Be a dear and buy the knife yourself. Something nice. No need to skimp. You can't take it with you anyway.

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Buy a guitar from me. I'm better then Martin, Gibson and everyone else. I swear I am! Would a guy with a cute dog in an Irish get up for an avatar lie?

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