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Checking Gibson Les Paul Custom 68's authenticity


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Dear fellow board members,

 

Would you be so kind as to help me verify this guitar's autenticity? I'd greatly appreciate it!

 

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Well that's been a rather non-straight answer, so no and yes :D Do I have to be worried?

No, you don't. They use the same polish for buffing Gibson Custom Shop and Gibson USA guitars featuring VOS or high-glossy finish surfaces. I found reddish residue on and in all of them. I rather remove it myself than having the dealer do this. Along with this cleaning I retighten all the screws and nuts - absolutely normal since the finish density grows for some weeks, and I prefer loose screws and nuts over threads already dull from the factory. However, I encountered these, too - on one Gibson USA and my only MIA Fender. I had to have wood plugs mounted into my brand-new Government Series II Explorer - the one from my avatar - and American Deluxe Ash Telecaster.

 

The guitar and the two basses of mine made in Japan, two Ibanezes and one Fender, have been the only flawless ones out of thirty-four in workmanship.

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No, you don't. They use the same polish for buffing Gibson Custom Shop and Gibson USA guitars featuring VOS or high-glossy finish surfaces. I found reddish residue on and in all of them. I rather remove it myself than having the dealer do this. Along with this cleaning I retighten all the screws and nuts - absolutely normal since the finish density grows for some weeks, and I prefer loose screws and nuts over threads already dull from the factory. However, I encountered these, too - on one Gibson USA and my only MIA Fender. I had to have wood plugs mounted into my brand-new Government Series II Explorer - the one from my avatar - and American Deluxe Ash Telecaster.

 

The guitar and the two basses of mine made in Japan, two Ibanezes and one Fender, have been the only flawless ones out of thirty-four in workmanship.

 

And the weird logo, raw / sticker edges are normal on the headstock?

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And the weird logo, raw / sticker edges are normal on the headstock?

There seem to have appeared air bubbles around the edges with time. Some forumites own guitars showing them, too. Here's a recent topic about it: http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/124122-shocking-storage-discovery/

 

Some weeks ago ther has been a topic about having this repaired by Gibson. It costed $450. Please refer to these topics: http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/122218-headstock-delamination-issue/page__p__1662406#entry1662406 and

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/123942-headstock-delamination-repair-update/

 

Some Gibsons show these delaminations prematurely. This may depend on wood and finish as well as on environment. In any case it is about an aesthetic problem only.

 

Our highly esteemed forumite Pippy from UK owns two Les Paul guitars of about same age of which one has severe weather checking, the other one doesn't. He always kept them both under the same conditions, so the environment has not been the cause obviously. Perhaps he will chime in here later.

 

The only Gibson of mine featuring peghead inlays and being old enough for this phenomenon is my 1978 S-G Standard. They are obvious there, but not that much, perhaps due to her much smaller crown inlay. This guitar also shows finish checking and a certain yellowish, opaque hue in the initially clear coat around the tobacco sunburst finish. My 1973 L6-S has no headstock inlays but shows finish checking in particular along glue seams, absolutely normal for her age. She had spent decades in the sacristy of a Catholic Church in England until a guy near Hamburg, Germany, bought her. Later I bought her from him. She and her original case have an intense smell of incense. [biggrin]

 

Hope this helps.

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