Not this goofball again...

[B2D]

Is someone ever gonna tell this assweed that there are NO SCALLOPS on this thing? And I've never heard of a company called "G-ibson"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2384&item=7304092540&rd=1

 

[FretFire]

Re: Not this goofball again...

Anyone else think this looks sorta nasty? Those frets don't look too healthy. And I can definitely see those scalloped frets .

 

[FretFire]

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Holy crap! I didn't think it was gonna be that huge.

 

[Skullkrusher]

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At least two out of the three frets pictured there has got to be something wrong with.

 

[Imp]

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looks like he did a fret-levelling job with an angle grinder

wearing boxing gloves

 

[Imp]

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hell, apart from the frets, i like that guitar! he's definitley onto something with the 89/89 set.. and at least it aint an OLP

tom

 

[FretFire]

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I sent him a message asking what happened to frets 17-20, and that I sure didn't see any scalloped frets .

 

[Imp]

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lol by the look of it, he's scalloped the fret itself :laugh2:

where's that 'SCALLOPWNED' pic?! that never fails to make me laugh

tom

 

[FretFire]

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[Imp]

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thats the one :laugh2:

send the guy that!

tom

 

[rspst14]

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The neck is shimmed (i.e., re-enforced) with maple

Upper frets scalloped (i.e., shaved down for more speed) :smack:

This guy needs a dictionary of luthier terms. Shimming a neck does not "reinforce" it, and sanding down a couple of frets does not mean they are scalloped.

Ryan

 

[TheProphet]

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Not to mention that nasty line at the back of the headstock which has me straching my head

take a lot

http://www.unm.edu/~burger/ebneck.jpg

 

[FretFire]

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Not to mention that nasty line at the back of the headstock which has me straching my head

take a lot

http://www.unm.edu/~burger/ebneck.jpg

Ouchies, looks like someone has been broken, or at least has a pretty nasty gouge.

EDIT: The more I look the less it looks like a fixed break, maybe he had it resting against something sharp and it left a nasty scratch on it? Either way, I don't recall him pointing that out in the listing...

 

[Jag513]

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Is someone ever gonna tell this assweed that there are NO SCALLOPS on this thing? And I've never heard of a company called "G-ibson"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2384&item=7304092540&rd=1

I've never heard of a S-trat or a L-es P-aul either.

Maybe G-ibson makes them?

 

[FretFire]

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I wonder if a hyphen is enough to keep you from getting you a-uction p-ulled by Fe-nder?

 

[Ez74]

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i wonder if he had a slight scallop.. then had the fingerboard radius changed... those frets look horrible

 

[FretFire]

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I don't see any kind of scallop, I'm wondering if maybe he had a refret done on the axe and it was just done poorly?

 

[TheProphet]

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I'm guessing the line at the back of the neck is from the Re-Carving of the neck ... *Shudder*

Ryan also pointed out that the seller is stupid ... There is no scalloping, the seller thinks the lowering of the frets means "Scalloping"

 

[FretFire]

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He's only 3 hours away from me... I should go check the guitar out and set him straight :laugh2:

 

[FretFire]

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I'm guessing the line at the back of the neck is from the Re-Carving of the neck ... *Shudder*

That's probably it...

"with custom contoured neck between frets 1 and 5 modeled to 1972 L-es P-aul Deluxe dimensions for easy open chords, "