WillyWP

Thats not helpful. You're not offering any solution only speculating what happened, or trying to be funny. And btw, that figuring is the wood not the finish.

Hello. I just purchased this guitar used recently and the neck is sticky. I have tried to clean it with a cloth and water, and with Gibson finish cleaner, but it returns to sticky again after playing it for a couple minutes. Even a dry paper towel will make it smooth and slippery again for a couple minutes of playing. I have a 2018 DC Special, and a Les Paul Classic, neither or them ever feel sticky. They never didn't new and don't now after a few years of playing. It is confusing to me that this is happening with this one guitar (DC Special Tribute), other than the previous owner used something bad to clean it. My other 2 guitars (DC Special and Les Paul Classic) have regular gloss finishes and mahogany necks, and the DC Tribute has a satin finish on a maple neck, but they are all nitro so I'm not sure why that would make a difference. I have seen people on forums recommend lighter fluid, which I want to do without an official Gibson okay. Or light sanding, which I don't want to do. I want to get rid of the stickiness without altering the guitar, just getting rid of the stickiness. Can anyone who has cleaned a Gibson finish, without messing it up, recommend a way to make it unsticky? Thanks.

They started made them in 1979 too, I have one with a 1979 serial number. It is an excellent guitar. I've owned a few SGs and the Firebrand is my favorite. Its ugly, but it plays and sounds amazing. They cost $499 new at the time, which was cheaper than a Standard but for the time not as equally cheap as a lot of the lower end SG models now.

Hello. I just got a 1982 Gibson Victory MVX that does not have the original pickup in the bridge position. Can anyone tell me the model pickup that was used so I can try to buy one in order to restore this Victory to its former glory? Thanks, WIlly PS The coil splitter switch replacement is a whole other issue I would like to restore as well too.