Knightrider7

Many people have asked about stop bar height on other forums, I say just wind in the studs until you get a clearance between the back of the bridge so that the high "E" doesn't touch the back of the bridge and the tail stop bar is level with the top of the guitar "even on both sides" and your good to go.

A thin piece of rubber tubing placed underneath the stop bar works for me, just compress it with your fingers and place it underneath the stop bar, anything that holds it in place will do.

I have a "figured 60's" 339 and it plays and sounds great on my Blackstar Silverline special, best guitar I have ever owned and I have had quite a few, not as heavy as a Gibson Les Paul that breaks my back now at the age of 75 and is just what I was looking for to replace my Les Paul's that I played for decades. The guitar is a cut down version of the ES335 that I found to big at the bout of the guitar after playing Les Pauls, the tone is fantastic and is suitable for any style of play with 57 & 57 + pups onboard. The "C" profile neck is comfortable to play and the weight of the guitar comes in at around 7.5 pounds not to light and not to heavy just perfect for me. Sustain is not compromised by the lack of weight and the action is very good for a factory set up and I am quite happy with it, the guy did a good job guess I got lucky some factory setups suck.

Hi, I purchased a second hand Gibson Les Paul standard, I noticed a few weeks later that a few of the trapezoid inlays had started to pop out. On further examination of the guitar the fretboard was drenched in lemon oil, I managed to prise one of the most badly damaged inlays out of the fretboard to replace it ( I had no choice) and noticed that the glue holding the inlays was yellowed and the glue had parted company with the inlay. I blamed this damage on over use of lemon oil so there is no way I am ever going to use it on any of my guitars. Am I right ?.

Many thanks my friend in the US of A, have a great Christmas and all the best to you and yours for the New Year from the UK.

Hi Guys & Gals. I have just purchased a Gibson ES 335 Figured 2019 model in cherry, it's a lovely guitar bit can someone tell me why the neck pickup is slanted like a wedge of cheese towards the neck ?. Surely it should be parallel with the strings, to set the pickup heights on any guitar the method is to set the pup with the last fret depressed and measure it from the bottom of the string to the top of the pole pieces. It is not possible to set it from the top of the pole pieces on a humbucker pickup at an angle when the back of the pup is higher than the pole pieces. I have reversed the pick up ring but did I di right or do Gibson do this on purpose or is it a design fault ? HELP.

I turned the neck pickup ring around on my brand new Gibson ES335 the other way as the poles could not be adjusted properly to the correct string height. The arch top of the guitar makes it impossible for it to sit properly the other way around, I don't know why Gibson do it this way it looks all wrong and when playing I hit the edge of the pickup with the pick. Pickup heights are supposed to be measured from the top of the poles not the back edge of the pickup.