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king_biscuit

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  1. Good points. I'm not sure exactly what rosewood Gibson is using, and it really doesn't matter anyway. I still love Gibson guitars and will continue to buy them.
  2. Indian rosewood or ebony are both fine. No one would complain about that. Whatever reason Gibson is choosing woods, it's not to save the planet, even if it's "sold" to us that way, it is to improve their bottom line.
  3. "American rosewood" is not very similar to Indian rosewood, take a look at the janka harness ratings for both.
  4. After a bit more research, I believe the Gibson USA line is using American Rosewood known as Dalbergia sissoo which is grown in the southern most parts of California and Florida. Reference: http://hort.ufl.edu/trees/DALSISA.pdf https://alliedlutherie.com/products/american-rosewwood-1
  5. I would leave it alone. I don't like the pcb and push pull stuff either, but you don't have to use it, and I hate modified guitars. Gibson should have never done any of that "high tech" wiring stuff to LPs, though.
  6. I have one of those and agree with everything you said.
  7. Probably never. There is still too much hand work done on them -- finish sanding of neck profiles on belt sanders, hand fitted necks, hand scraped binding, hand (final) shaped binding, binding nibs, etc... Gibson can either charge more money like Collings and others and spend double the time making them, or get rid of some of the hand work being done and change the basic instrument. They are selling them as fast as they can make them now, so I suspect things will keep rocking along.
  8. Gibson are not putting $2500 in their pockets for every LP sold. Gibson sells Les Paul Standards to retailers for maybe 60 percent of MAP so for a $2500 LP, Gibson is getting maybe $1500. Gibson needs to make a 40 to 50 percent profit on each instrument to stay in business so they need to make these for $750 to $900. If it were easy to produce "perfect" "gibson" style guitars why can't companies like Collings sell them for $2500.00?
  9. I would leave it stock, or I would just replace the pickups.
  10. Nothing wrong with pau ferro, I've had high end instruments with pau fingerboards. No one thought anything about it until Fender started using it and then a lot of people freaked out. Roger Sadowsky likes to use pau and said tonally is close to Brazilian rosewood.
  11. It's not the same species of wood. You might as well call laurel rosewood and it actually looks more like rosewood to me that pau ferro. I don't have a problem with pau ferro, and it was considered a premium wood by builders until Fender started using it. Gibson has clearly noted when fretboards are pau ferro so they don't consider it a rosewood either.
  12. It's not a true rosewood genetically and the rosewood description is merely based on appearance. Notice on the CS models fingerboard material is listed as "indian rosewood" but on the USA models just "rosewood". I actual called Gibson about this once and was told they use different types of rosewood on the USAs but its not pau ferro, granadillo or laurel. Who know... The fretboard on my 2020 Special is pretty dark and I have no complaints.
  13. I like the Brite Wires just fine on my Les Paul and I like the idea of Gibson strings on a Gibson guitar, Fender strings on a Fender, etc...
  14. This wouldn't really bother me. Look at what companies like Collings are selling Les Pauls for and you will get the idea of what it costs to make a relatively flawless guitar. For a little over 2k the Standards are fairly inexpensive instruments and with the amount of handwork done on them there are always going to be cosmetic issues.
  15. Hi all, new poster here. I think the person scraping the paint off of the binding went a little deeper in some areas than others between the paint to binding transition, not at the fretboard side. If the fretboard was as off as it would have to be for the unevenness to be up there, the guitar would be unplayable. It's not best looking binding scrapping i've seen but it's not unusual for Gibson considering how these are done at the factory. No human is going to get the binding shaping/scrapping perfect all of the time especially the number of guitars Gibson is putting out.
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