azzebra

Howdy, Ive been playing for about 20 years and only recently picked up my first Gibsons. I had always played strats but got the itch for a Les Paul which turned out to be a revelation. I was so happy with it I decided to pick up a Southern Jumbo as well. I ordered the SJ sight unseen, but was pleasantly surprised as it’s the finest sounding guitar I’ve ever played. Needless to say I’ve quickly become a Gibson fan boy. Looking forward to talking guitars with y’all.

It’s a good point, even the imported eastman’s are about 2000 bucks. It does make me wonder though how much Gibson loses in returns and lost future sales by not addressing basic QC issues. At what point does it become worth it to tell the cutters to spend the extra time to do it right.

Recently picked up my first Gibson, a 60s LP. While it plays and sounds great the person that cuts the binding with a razor blade was most certainly drunk. There are literally blade marks all over the fret board and binding. I thought about returning it or swapping it out, but then I might get one that doesn’t play as well or look as good, but still has the blade marks. In the end I decided that I can live with some terrible binding work if everything else is right. If i was the ceo and saw a guitar like that I would walk down to binding cutting department and fire them straight away, as well as the qc person who let it by. Honestly, a kid that has never seen a guitar or used a razor could probably cut binding better.