An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

[astrozombie]

Re: An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

the inlay hasn't moved save for that corner that popped up.

This is the only "issue" with my guitar and it's not enough for me to talk bad about the company. It's a guitar, an expensive one, but it's built by people. People are flawed, they make mistakes. Maybe that extra 2 mm of glue that was missed that day is because the person was having a bad day, or didnt get enough sleep and was distracted, etc.

i havent glued it in because i cant pull it out easily to begin with and i am super lazy.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

You're reasoning sounds nice...but it is flawed. Yes, they are only "people". But people make up the company. People are responsible for the build of every product that the company produces. People are responsible for quality control, for doing it right in the first place but also for checking the quality after it is built. Quality control is almost always done by someone other than the person who built it in the first place. It's not just one person who screwed up, but multiple people. That means the company.

Yes, Gibson quality has been very disappointing lately. Give me Epiphone any day before Gibson...in spite of, and especially because of the cost.

ps: I'd even take Katy Perry before I'd take another Gibson (I've already got 4 or 5 Gibsons).

 

[blueman335]

Re: An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

How severe are the humidity, temperature and direct sunlight variations in FL?

Summers are somewhere between a wet sauna and a microwave oven. Some mornings the low is 82. I've read that the sun is 3 times as intense here as it is in the northern US. I can't imagine life in this state without a/c. Sometimes we have 90 degree highs in March and November. So no, I wouldn't call it severe. Not at all.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

You're reasoning sounds nice...but it is flawed. Yes, they are only "people". But people make up the company. People are responsible for the build of every product that the company produces. People are responsible for quality control, for doing it right in the first place but also for checking the quality after it is built. Quality control is almost always done by someone other than the person who built it in the first place. It's not just one person who screwed up, but multiple people. That means the company.

Yes, Gibson quality has been very disappointing lately. Give me Epiphone any day before Gibson...in spite of, and especially because of the cost.

ps: I'd even take Katy Perry before I'd take another Gibson (I've already got 4 or 5 Gibsons).

I get you. In all fairness, the inlay LOOKED properly seated and glued up until this happened. Just like all the other ones that aren't popping out.

I suspect the issue is that not enough glue was used on that particular side of that inlay because the right side is glued all the way in.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: An inlay is popping out of my Les Paul.

Summers are somewhere between a wet sauna and a microwave oven. Some mornings the low is 82. I've read that the sun is 3 times as intense here as it is in the northern US. I can't imagine life in this state without a/c. Sometimes we have 90 degree highs in March and November. So no, I wouldn't call it severe. Not at all.

Having lived in Miami and Tampa as well as in the caribbean, I can say that the conditions are mostly the same.

I think PR is a bit more humid but honestly it isn't by much. I can remember in 2015 in december when my grandfather passed away I came back to Tampa to pay my respects and felt the cold.

That's the only difference, winters don't get "cold" here. it's around the same temperature all year.

but just as humid as any sunny summer day in the sunshine state.