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  1. "Work horse" is going to be as opposed to a "show horse", one that looks beautiful but does not do any actual work.
  2. I have mediums on my L-00s and it never occurred to me that they couldn't handle those strings. I mean, what we call "medium" used to be what they called "strings" back in the day when the L-00 was first invented.
  3. That's correct, Roger, which makes it seem like it's going to be some super loud guitar or something. But yeah, I think it stands for "herringbone" crusher more than anything else. At any rate, it's a very versatile guitar. If you look at that video that was shared here about "The Process" and the making of Gibson's acoustic bodies, you'll see them at some point using a machine that is labelled "Dove/HB/J30/J60", so the J-60, Dove, Hummingbird and J30 all shared the same body. I am told that the J-60 uses Gibson's "advanced" bracing, like the Advanced Jumbo. I don't really know what the bracing is on the Hummingbird and Dove, though, although I do have a Dove. The J-60 is an incredible guitar. Sure, it's a direct equivalent of a Martin, but it retains some Gibson character to the sound. Just an all around winner. Like I say, I can't imaging what rosewood dreadnaught would really be "better", someone might prefer one to the other of course for whatever reason, but Gibson did the rosewood/Sitka dreadnaught thing as well as any guitar maker ever has in my opinion.
  4. A while back I was measuring the nut widths of my Gibsons, and I found that while all of them said they were 1.725", most were a little wider, some actually more like 1.75". Most in between. Oddly, my L-00 12 fret advertised itself as being 1.75" and is more like 1.725". However, I can say that my J-60 (which I recall being wider than 1.725" but not by how much) is a tremendous guitar. You asked about how it compared to the D-28. Well, you would really want to compare it to the HD-28, since the HD-28 and the J-60 have scalloped braces and the D-28 does not. Cosmetically, the J-60 is a little more plain than the HD-28. And while I haven't spent a ton of time playing a HD-28, I have played them, a buddy has one that I guided him to buy. It's a great sounding and great playing guitar. But I don't think it sounds better than my J-60. To be honest, I can't imagine that any guitar would really sound a whole lot better, if at all. The J-60 is a tremendous guitar and if you want a full scale rosewood dreadnaught, it's as good as one of those can be, is how I feel about it. I feel no urge to buy anything else in that class.
  5. That's me! I don't remember saying that but I'm glad you like the L-00. I actually own two at the moment, that Standard, and a 12 fret model. Modern day Gibson is great. But I bet the bone saddle makes a pretty big difference with your old guitar. Let us know!
  6. Yeah, people really love those WM-45s. I already have a -45, -15 and a -29, so I'm covered there. This WM-10 is a winner, I think. I like these somewhat under the radar Gibson acoustics... Bozeman never made anything but great instruments from what I can tell, but you can get really good deals on some of the more obscure stuff.
  7. I do have a Dove, maybe I'll take a picture of these guitars together. But I'm feeling that the WM-10 is a Songbird shape as you say.
  8. You know, I was noticing that also, the WM-10 does seem a little narrower at the waist there. I also have a J-60 and I had them both out and you can see that the J-60 is physically larger. In trying to learn more about this model I have seen the name "Songbird" applied to it at times, there's barely any information about these out there but I think you are right, maybe it is a stripped down Songbird. I don't know much about Songbirds... where they an interim model in between the CL line and the Songwriters? Gibson is often all over the place with their models, but that means that there are things like this that don't sell for much because they were never very popular but are still made with Gibson quality.
  9. Well, it's a nice guitar: The neck is like nothing else I've seen from Gibson. Flat but with rounded shoulders and not very thin or anything. The finish is all crazing because it was applied so lightly. I had heard that these came with Grover tuners, but if Grover made these, they didn't want to talk about it and the tuners say nothing. They are also the worst tuners I have used since I can't think of when. I always replace the tuners on guitars with locking tuners so that's not a big deal. Overall, it's a fine playing and sounding guitar. Needs a little work, new bone saddle and the nut in time. But for the $800 I spent, it's a fine guitar to have around.
  10. Interesting, I didn't know that about the WM-45 being long scale. It seems that was the popular one of the group, although that 00 seems very cool.
  11. Hi all- so, I just bought a 1998 WM-10. I'm familiar with the line and see that the WM-45 was very popular, and I know that the fingerboard is Pau ferro and so on. But does anyone know more details about the WM-10? Like, I get that it's a square shoulder mahogany dread, long scale and all, but what about the bracing? Did they kind of use the Dove template for it, or was it a J-30/J-60 stripped down? Gibson isn't always known for the mahogany square shoulder dreads, and it isn't short scale like a Hummingbird or anything. Anyone ever have one? I was in the market for a mahogany dreadnaught, and I like Gibson acoustics a lot, so I am pretty sure I'lll like this.
  12. Yes, but again, the reason you had it on the bench with tools out is because you, unlike the person who posted this miserable thread, understand that you should expect to do a setup on all new (or used) guitars. I'm glad you were happy with your Casino, but if you would have had to lower the pickups on it (which is hard to do on a Casino) I'm sure you wouldn't be whining about it or sending it back.
  13. But this is not a repair. It's part of setup. Using a screwdriver to lower the pickup so you can put the action where you want it to be is no more a repair than adjusting the seats on your brand new car and putting in the radio station you want to listen to. Come on, man. I know you know a lot about guitars and I know that you know that there is no way Gibson is going to get the pickup height and bridge height to be perfect for everyone and that's why guitar makers make this stuff adjustable in the first place. Every electric guitar maker does this on every guitar. There's a reason they do this. If you are telling us that this person should have gotten a guitar in which the bridge height and pickup height is set perfectly for the buyer, what is that guitar, Lars? Can you tell me what guitar I can buy that will arrive with the pickup height and bridge height set exactly the way I want it to be right out of the box, Lars? Because it would sure save me some time once you tell me what that guitar is. And yes, shipping a guitar from any climate to any other climate will cause the wood on the guitar to change to some degree or the other. And you are also not acknowledging that it's not just one climate to another, the guitar also goes through any number of other climates on the way, including the artificial ones that are air conditioning and forced heating. As long as we are speaking of shipping, though, this character found it appropriate to ship a perfectly good guitar back to a seller because this person couldn't be bothered to learn the most basic fundamentals of guitar setup nor consult with anyone who could have provided basic guitar setup advice? And you support this? In an era of global warming, you really think it's appropriate to ship a perfectly good guitar back for virtually no reason without having even had a local expert give it a look over? I mean, thank God Thomann kicked this customer to the curb, I would have absolutely done the same. All this complaining from someone who doesn't understand the most basic aspects of the product they spent two thousand dollars on? Very sad. How do you satisfy a customer like this? You can't. A person this ignorant of the product they bought, that can't even be bothered to notice that both the pickup height and bridge are adjustable, well, you can't work with someone like that. There's probably a setup manual right in the guitar case that this person could have read. Like the person above mentioned, Gibson send out the God damn tool you need to do this work that all guitars need. The tool and the information are right there in the case! Instead it's right to social media complaining. My God. There's just not a foundation of basic knowledge to build on, and the incredible self-entitlement and anger just means you are going to be devoting staff resources pointlessly. End the sale. Make this person be someone else's problem. To the original poster, get a screwdriver. Get a basic instruction book on the electric guitar. Or better yet, just pay a professional and accept that person's advice, quit the complaining, quit using social media to air your meritless grievances and get on with it. Quit wasting everyone's time. Because I sure don't want to have to sit through the insufferable complaining and whining when this character discovers that his guitar has a truss rod.
  14. Because it doesn't seem to have occurred to this person that this stuff is adjustable. They didn't "lift the bridge" instead of "fixing the pickup". What they did was provide a guitar that has adjustable pickup and bridge height with the assumption that people would either figure out how to use this stuff but I guess that in the 50's when they came up with this stuff they didn't anticipate how bellyaching on social media would be far more popular than simply setting up your guitar. I mean, we are discussing things that can be adjusted with a screwdriver, so we aren't talking about extreme maintenance here. What a nothing complaint. What a waste of everyone's time.
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