capmaster Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Sorry for my dumb question, but I fear I just don't get it anyhow. Given one bought a brand-new Gibson Custom or VOS guitar coming with a Custom or VOS sticker on the pickguard - what is one supposed to do with that? My personal assumption is the following: The typical collector would leave it on for displaying the guitar in a glass case, the average player would peel it off. Will the latter run the risk of devaluating the instrument just by removing the sticker? Or should one try getting a replacement pickguard for actual use and put the stock one with the sticker on the shelf? I'm curious about your votes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Change the pick guard and play the hell out of it or take it off and play the hell out of it. Then again you may want to leave it on and play the hell out of it. Anyway you do it works… If you are going to put it in a glass case and look at it keep it 100% as it was new but why would you want to do that? It will never be a vintage 50s or 60s guitar. In the future, that fact that it's made out of real wood my make it a collectors item but we may not be around to see that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Peel them off and play it stickers add nothing to the tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drog Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I just replace mine with a different one. Why is it that Gibson never age the pickguard or trem covers on VOS aged instruments???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Natural Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. +1 Ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. [thumbup].... But it's your geetar..... Do as you wish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I don't think it matters that much, but just for the sake of conversation... I don't believe it will actually affect the value if you toss the sticker. The guitar won't be worth any more or less. BUT, it may be easier to sell in the future. Reason being, a VOS or a Custom is worth considerably more than a "regular" Gibby. It doesn't change what the actual guitar is, and a guy paying the "extra" in monetary terms will certainly not take the sticker as proof, but it IS perhaps useful if and when you go to sell it to get a little interest if you still have it. A pickgaurd is pretty cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Oh, I forgot... We have to have the "pickgaurd on or off" argument if we are to get anywhere with this. I think it's been a month since the last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Oh, I forgot... We have to have the "pickgaurd on or off" argument if we are to get anywhere with this. I think it's been a month since the last one. No we don't. Off, done. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellen Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 recently bought one, went straight of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody78 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I've noticed some guys on here keep the stickers on, especially in the Epiphone forum, which I find quite odd personally. Some people even keep the 'peel off all protective covering' sticker thing on theirs. Bizarre! If you must keep the sticker, just peel it off and stick it on the product literature that comes with the guitar. None of my Gibson Customs came with these stickers as they seem to have only put them on in the last few years, so luckily I wasn't kept up at night worrying about the quandary 'to peel off or to keep on' On a side note, whenever I buy a new Epi with the E on the pickguard I take it off straight away as it always looks tacky and cheap to me - but that's just my preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Natural Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 ... On a side note, whenever I buy a new Epi with the E on the pickguard I take it off straight away as it always looks tacky and cheap to me - but that's just my preference. I, too, have taken the "epsilons" off of the couple of Epis that I have bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Leaving the stickers or peel-coats on the guitar will do permanent damage to the parts of the guitar to which they're stuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Well, here is a short picture story of an R7 and it's VOS sticker and pickguard history The very minute my late friend Ed brought it home and opened the case. Notice the Custom sticker still on and the toggle switch hadn't even been screwed on yet. A few short minutes later, Ed posing and the sticker is off. Sometime within a year later and I'm playing it at a gig and pickguard has been removed. The guitar is now mine and I have no idea whatever became of the pickguard. Moral of the story is....I really don't know, but it seemed appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Why is it that Gibson never age the pickguard or trem covers on VOS aged instruments???? The pickguard on my 2012 ES-330 VOS was aged by the factory & no sticker applied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drog Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 The pickguard on my 2012 ES-330 VOS was aged by the factory & no sticker applied. I have four VOS guitars, including a 2012 ES330 and none of my pickguards are aged (as in the white ply turned yellow). hmmm, odd. Only stickers on my Les Paul's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2PoFoAGibSon Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Honsetly...all kidding aside...I REALLY thought that was what you were supposed to do........DOH It's a sticker. Peel it off, throw it away, play guitar. They have always told me that 'I am special"..THEY..we're tellin me the TRUTH...RIGHT?????.Anyway..who are THEY.....Hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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