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Re: Confused On Gibson Weight Relief
I do not directly contest your research and I am sure your particular 06 is only swiss-cheesed if you say so. But again, I have to warn you that what Gibson customer service reps say is completely useless.
These reps are about $7/hour people with at best some background consisting of liking to play Chinese Strats. They get what they answer on the phone on sheets provided by PR people who are not the ones running around the factory deciding which guitar gets what. These specsheets are very approximate.
Internet forums are full of events where somebody has a certain Gibson on their knees while he is on the phone with one of the Gibson "reps" (which is really a look-up-in-official-documentation monkey) explaining to the caller that the guitar on his lap doesn't exist.
Down on the factory floor decisions are made on a day-to-day basis. Old half-build guitar parts are made into current model guitars, retaining some of the old characteristics. Down on the floor people probably have never seen those spec sheets that the customer rep quotes on the phone, and they don't know they aren't supposed to make a SG std body from more than 2 pieces, and then they do.
The randomness is part of the charm of buying Gibsons and hey if it's too perfect it's probably a Chinese fake. But going around quoting their reps is useless.
I do not directly contest your research and I am sure your particular 06 is only swiss-cheesed if you say so. But again, I have to warn you that what Gibson customer service reps say is completely useless.
These reps are about $7/hour people with at best some background consisting of liking to play Chinese Strats. They get what they answer on the phone on sheets provided by PR people who are not the ones running around the factory deciding which guitar gets what. These specsheets are very approximate.
Internet forums are full of events where somebody has a certain Gibson on their knees while he is on the phone with one of the Gibson "reps" (which is really a look-up-in-official-documentation monkey) explaining to the caller that the guitar on his lap doesn't exist.
Down on the factory floor decisions are made on a day-to-day basis. Old half-build guitar parts are made into current model guitars, retaining some of the old characteristics. Down on the floor people probably have never seen those spec sheets that the customer rep quotes on the phone, and they don't know they aren't supposed to make a SG std body from more than 2 pieces, and then they do.
The randomness is part of the charm of buying Gibsons and hey if it's too perfect it's probably a Chinese fake. But going around quoting their reps is useless.
