Nostalgic Distortion
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For the past few years I've have to travel about 45 minutes each way to see a specialist at least once a month but last month they informed me that they were closing that clinic & I'd now have to travel over an hour each way, but in the opposite direction! Not only is the new place further but it's in an armpit of a tourist town that I'd normally avoid like the plague because it's usually filled up with out of town A$$#0|€$ that are more concerned with the pretty mountains & changing leaves than their driving habits!!! :cussing::cussing::cussing:
LOL anyway, when I arrived at this new place yesterday I realized there was a music shop right across the street & since I had to be up there anyway I thought I'd stop in before heading home. This place is pretty small & at first I didn't see much in there that sparked my interest, until I ventured into the "Consignment Center!!!" that is...
Granted the "Consignment Center" only consisted of two guitars & a late 90's Fender Frontman but one of those guitars just so happened to be a beautiful mint condition 2017 L.P. Tribute in Honyburst with a very friendly price tag!!! Once I played the guitar (under that seemingly quite useless neon sign) I knew for sure two things were going to happen....
First, I wouldn't be leaving empty handed when I had a perfectly good credit card in my pocket!!! Secondly, my wife was going to be P!$$ed at me when I got home!!!:chairshot
Apparently the guy who was selling the guitar had bought it new about a month earlier & then had some unexpected bills pop up which forced him to let it go? So it was priced to sell & I was very impressed by the build quality! In fact I couldn't find anything on it at all that I didn't like or I felt like needed to be fixed! Except perhaps the 490T bridge humbucker, I've never been a big fan of the 490T & I just so happen to have a SH-5 Custom laying around that I may put in there instead? In any case I'm definitely happy to see Gibson has been stepping up their Q.C. game of late instead of just selling their brand!!!
My last new Gibson L.P. was a 2015 Les Paul 100 & although it is an absolutely amazing guitar now it definitely took some work to get it there! Luckily it was bought later in the year so by then they had started putting the robot tuners into the case & shipping them with Grover's. Regardless, I still had to replace the Brass zero fret nut with a Titaium one, round out the Plek'd frets, address some random sharp fret ends, Etc, & that was just to get it playing good!!!
These things didn't "NEED" to be done but with that one I've also replaced the printed circuit board with a traditional 50's harness & P.I.O. caps, replaced the stock switch because it was just plain garbage, & replaced the stock Burstbuckers with a SH-14/SH-P.G.N. humbucker set because the stock pickups lacked character.
I may do at least some of these things to this one as well but it's definitely a much better STOCK guitar as it sits & I could easily live with it as is!!! If I did have a complaint it would be that these come with a heavy soft gig-bag instead of a hard case. I imagine they've done this to keep the cost down which is fine? For what I spent on the guitar it didn't kill me to drop another $80 on a good molded hard case for it....
LOL anyway, when I arrived at this new place yesterday I realized there was a music shop right across the street & since I had to be up there anyway I thought I'd stop in before heading home. This place is pretty small & at first I didn't see much in there that sparked my interest, until I ventured into the "Consignment Center!!!" that is...
Granted the "Consignment Center" only consisted of two guitars & a late 90's Fender Frontman but one of those guitars just so happened to be a beautiful mint condition 2017 L.P. Tribute in Honyburst with a very friendly price tag!!! Once I played the guitar (under that seemingly quite useless neon sign) I knew for sure two things were going to happen....
First, I wouldn't be leaving empty handed when I had a perfectly good credit card in my pocket!!! Secondly, my wife was going to be P!$$ed at me when I got home!!!:chairshot
Apparently the guy who was selling the guitar had bought it new about a month earlier & then had some unexpected bills pop up which forced him to let it go? So it was priced to sell & I was very impressed by the build quality! In fact I couldn't find anything on it at all that I didn't like or I felt like needed to be fixed! Except perhaps the 490T bridge humbucker, I've never been a big fan of the 490T & I just so happen to have a SH-5 Custom laying around that I may put in there instead? In any case I'm definitely happy to see Gibson has been stepping up their Q.C. game of late instead of just selling their brand!!!
My last new Gibson L.P. was a 2015 Les Paul 100 & although it is an absolutely amazing guitar now it definitely took some work to get it there! Luckily it was bought later in the year so by then they had started putting the robot tuners into the case & shipping them with Grover's. Regardless, I still had to replace the Brass zero fret nut with a Titaium one, round out the Plek'd frets, address some random sharp fret ends, Etc, & that was just to get it playing good!!!
These things didn't "NEED" to be done but with that one I've also replaced the printed circuit board with a traditional 50's harness & P.I.O. caps, replaced the stock switch because it was just plain garbage, & replaced the stock Burstbuckers with a SH-14/SH-P.G.N. humbucker set because the stock pickups lacked character.
I may do at least some of these things to this one as well but it's definitely a much better STOCK guitar as it sits & I could easily live with it as is!!! If I did have a complaint it would be that these come with a heavy soft gig-bag instead of a hard case. I imagine they've done this to keep the cost down which is fine? For what I spent on the guitar it didn't kill me to drop another $80 on a good molded hard case for it....
