Gibson guitars and quality issues

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Gibson guitars and quality issues

In the land down under, a Les Paul Standard costs 5000 dollars. You don't even wanna know about the more expensive models when it comes to Aussie prices, trust me.
5000 is about double the price of many custom made instruments in this country.
As far as I'm concerned, if almost every single one of them is perfect, that is not good enough.
If I'm going to be paying 5000 dollars for a bloody guitar, it better be nothing less than godly perfect.

 

[tnvol]

Re: Gibson guitars and quality issues

I can just about guarantee you that the only part of that guitar that is left from when it left the factory is the wood. It may be a second (for reasons we don't know), and he probably got it because it was cheaper. IIRC, Zakk Wylde's first LP Custom is also a Norlin era factory 2nd. Doesn't mean a thing other than that is what was affordable to him or whoever got it for him at the time.

Something I'm curious about (not related to 2nds, just in general):

How many here saw and picked up their first Les Paul and actually paid attention to stuff like that? Probably nobody or very few. You were probably like Aceman or myself (if Aceman was like me). The first time I saw a real Les Paul and played one I was like a kid in a candy store because I was a young player and it was a guitar that one of my guitar heroes played. I could've cared less about the rest of the details.
Now that I have some playing years and experience under my belt, sure, I pay attention to the details more but I still get that giddy feeling when playing a guitar like one of my heroes played. It's just a natural thing. If I came across a factory 2nd and it played well enough, you're darn right I'd snag it because it'd be cheaper to buy.

Thanks to the internet, everybody can come to conclusions about guitars without even trying any for themselves. Nothing speaks truer than personal experience with the product being discussed.

Good call. I bought my first one in 1988 and it was the first Les Paul I had ever tried. It was like I had Bo Dereks left tit in my hand. I pulled out all the cash I had and the two dudes with me whipped out their checkbooks so I could buy it. I still have it and it's my favorite one.