WHY OH WHY would anyone do this to perfectly good guitars?!?! According to UltimateClassicRock.com the video was released by ex-Gibson employee BJ Wilkes who said the Firebird X guitar had poor sales and this was how they chose to deal with the issue when they could of donated them to a school or pretty much any teenager who dreamed of getting a damn guitar! The follow quote is from Ultimateclassicrock.com
According to the former employee, Gibson chose to destroy a large amount of Firebird X guitars, after the model was met with poor sales. “Gibson literally could not sell these guitars and they were on the books,” Wilkes explained to YouTube channel Guitologist. He added that the company’s new investors were “trying to clean up the mess before the end of the fiscal year.”