I can imagine a Gibson executive hooked up to a polygraph reading that official statement and it exploding like when Homer Simpson was asked if he understood the question.

That is total book cooking tax write off shit because the fire bird X was such a colossal failure they could not give them away. Trying to suggest they could not yank out all the electronics and repurpose the bodies is pure nonsense. Or maybe donate them to poor kids or something

Rose wood takes over 100 years to grow

Gibson and their rich white boy dentist money base of buyers who can afford 6 thousand dollar guitars and 4 thousand dollar amps to play Eric Clapton riffs can suck piss in hell for eternity.