marco mancini
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4 hours ago, kidblast said:
how can that be put on Gibson when shipping is causing the damage
I understand the frustration, but maybe set your scope on the right target before you return fire.
I have talked with a dealer "gibson official " and he mentioned of guitars paid by him and returned back because of ruptures and defects , you cannot even order a guitar or give him a deposit for a model because he doesnt even know whether or not that model will ever arrive , of course we are not only talking of cheap models but even custom shop models and i can assure you that the dealer which i'm talking about is serious and very knowledgeable in selling guitars to his customers in italy and abroad .
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in fact They arriving with broken headstocks and cracks on fingerboards.
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I mean i'm an italian Customer faithful to Gibson , to date i have four of them , problem is that talking with dealers here it looks like they have so many problems with deliveries , orders , and quality ,i.e. (new guitars arriving with broken headstocks, cracks here and there , etc i wonder whether and when they will get their act together to satisfy customers everywhere , it's not fair trying to risk buying guitars on line because the company cannot keep up with deliveries to dealers where they can finally check if the guitar is bankable to their customers .
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3 hours ago, melpi65 said:
Hi!
Thank you for commenting. I think they are very good guitars, you may play a little bit with the tone and volume pot to get some different tone, meaby it would not be my first choice but the neck and tone are lovely really
Very good indeed , but then i wonder which is your first choice ?
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13 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
Rick does not influence me in the least bit. I make my own decisions on any thing I do or decide. I respect that he is a music educator, and I know he plays and produces, but it is kind of cheesy but nicely displayed, that he is not a touring artist. If I was to go back to the 1970's and tell my past self what life would be like this in the 2020's. I would not believe it. YT Influencer. Call it what it is an Attention Hog.
A music educator purpose would have to be allowing every kind of musician getting a guitar on his hand that should be his involvement in a signed guitar series
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I'm not questioning the interests of mr. Beato , i questioned the Gibson idea of putting "smoke screen " cheap glitty guitars on the market with the name of an alleged benefactor on them just for the few and not for the many , also it would be interesting to know how many guitars Gibson has done for this charity cause .
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2 hours ago, Dub-T-123 said:
I keep seeing people post over and over again about the price but nobody seems to mention that Rick is not making a penny from these and is donating all proceeds to charity
As a side note, the actual main cost saving factor on a “faded” finish is the lack of grain filler. Gibson has convinced a lot of people that not grain filling mahogany is a good thing because you can “feel the wood”. To me it’s just cheap. A satin finish on filled mahogany would feel much smoother
I get that the idea here was to show the grain under an opaque finish but there is a much classier way to do that.. they could lightly finish unfilled mahogany with Pelham blue then fill the pores with a contrasting color filler. Then clear coat with whatever desired sheen and you have a much stronger nicer effect
Oh gosh i do not know whether or not Rick Beato rakes in some money on a guitar that in 2019 costed 800 euros and now spiralled on the "black market " at 3200 euros , in any way I would urge Gibson to produce the same guitar with a gig bag on a full scale without his name on the tag to give everybody the chance to buy it
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11 hours ago, Rabs said:
They really are the same guitars but without a gloss finish or neck binding.. The newer DCs though, although similar have that front control routing with the big pickguards with controls on it.. Just not quite the same thing.. You can pick those up all day long on Reverb for about £700... Like this...
this is the one that i have too and morover it hasn't got hassle of the four pots which for me are a pain in the neck in terms of practicality , but the queston is how much less weighs the Beato compared to this one
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6 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
Have him look on the Gibson site its there.
https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/USAQQJ682/TV-Blue-Mist
Sure they say it is "out of stock " fair enough yeah , but you can't put a guitar which is not really a "high end " guitar in your catalogue without sending a stock to all your dealers earlier .
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Weird isn't it ? I live in Italy in a great city but the official gibson dealer don't have even the slightest clue on how to order such a guitar indeed for them it seems a "GHOST" guitar that the company has only drafted on paper .
come on Gibson please let's be professional ! shall we ?
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Hi there folks ,
I would like to buy the new Rick Beato les paul special but i have already got something similar which is very good indeed (pic attached ) can anyone out there enlighten me on the ergonomic - handling differences about these two guitars whether or not there are any ? thanks
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10 hours ago, jdgm said:
Hi Marco
They may be the same value and therefore interchangeable. They should have some sort of code on the case somewhere; if both codes are the same, problem solved and you can use either one for tone or volume.
If the codes are different then go online and do a search for potentiometer codes;
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=potentiometer+codes
followed by the code itself. Do this for both pots.
Let us know the pot codes if you can't find out anything. I'm sure someone here will be able to decipher them.
Forum members please correct me if my advice is wrong!
Thanks so much mate your info has been very useful it could definitely be as you say my luthier has also confirmed t that .
Thanks again
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Hello there guys i need to fix the wiring of an old precision bass, I bought a kit on the internet but the two potentiometers look like the same ,and now I don't know which of the two is the tone and volume pot ,can anyone help?
Thanks
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all right guys :
my problem is changing strings in a way that they will not slide when i move the tremolo , i know thare are tricks here and there but i would like to be sure how to take the right steps to do that , also since the smelly of rust on the strings is strong do you advise to use the DUNLOP65 to clean the keyboards once the strings are out ? last but not least still a couple of things , is it better to change the whole set or one string at a time and what about to soften the bajo tuners that seem a bit to hard when it comes to tune the guitar .
Thanks to everybody
cheers !
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On 8/23/2022 at 11:18 AM, maXo said:
Hi everyone.
This is declared as a crack in the paint. Can anyone judge by these pictures, if this is just a small one or can potentialy be more serious? How would this effect the value of the guitar LP 2016.
Thanks again for your expertise.
Well..... i would be concerned it looks like more serious of what it seems from outside
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Yep pick ups are original humbuckers thanks for the feed back ,that means that my luthier is knowledgable on his craft
cheers mate 👍
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hello there everybody
my luthier here has used this system to reduce the noise on the guitar and things seems to go much better , what do you make of that ?
cheers .
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Well 1964 firebird III reissue , i reckon that gibson custom shop didn't make so many reissues like this
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Sostituire sara' difficile per la sostituzione te ne devi accorgere al volo , al massimo la danno a un liutaio che te la tira nuova , sperando in garanzia
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Thanks to our American friends that have made up these magical instruments for us to enjoy , thanks to our American friends of having spread blues , rock , jazz , country all over the world and thanks to have given birth to the greatest rock n roll bands which made me pick up the guitar LYNYRD SKYNYRD , ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION and 38 SPECIAL .Mr. RONNIE VAN ZANT would have to be put along side the likes of DAVID BOWIE , JIM MORRISON , and FREDDIE MERCURY and keep his memory alive for his talent ,and art , all over the world .
ciao ragazzi !
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1 minute ago, sparquelito said:
A very nice collection, Marco.
A versatile and useful arsenal of musicians' tools!
And I can attest that a Mexican Martin is a fine sounding guitar.
😀
I'm curious of putting my hands over it
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5 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:
and, in Italia - a mandolin !
Oh dear ! here it is
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5 hours ago, gearbasher said:
All I can add is...everyone should have an acoustic.
well im just waiting for this one i want to see a mexican martin sounds like
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prs custom 24 (97) in honour of the great ED KING (rip) who used it when he was back with skynyrd in 1991
gibson firebird III 1964 reissue custom shop (16) coming from california ALLEN COLLINS and JOE BONAMASSA the culprits of this purchase
Squier Stratocaster 60 vibe (21 ) set up professionally ! better than a fender professional II 😕 SWEET HOME ALABAMA is what comes to mind when i played it
Gibson les Paul special (19) simple raw and cheap with a couple o P90 withouth strings attached DON BARNES of 38 special inspired me to pick it up
Gibson Les Pul Standard (21) just traded in the fende american professional II for this machine and was the perfect choice the Great GARY ROSSINGTON was the author of this choice
Gibson firebird V (17) bought in japan light simple and made up good despite what they said in here i mainly used it to preserve the custom shop
ciao a tutti !
What the hell is going on at Gibson factory ?
in Gibson USA
Posted · Edited by marco mancini
Sorry mate but do italian customers are different from the Americans ?