Andrea Paesetti

Good, that's exactly what i did. With the setting I shared in the image embedded in the first post, I almost have 5/64" between the string and the back of the bridge. Probably because of perspective in the picture is not visible.

Thank you very much! I'm from Milan

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea and I'm from Italy. I bought my guitar (a squire affinity strat) back in 2004 when I was 14, but I never had the right mindset to focus and learn playing. Just strumming some random riffs from my favorite bands. Easy result: I quit after a while. Now time has passed and I realized that the Dream to learn the guitar never left me and I finally have the right mindset. I started this summer with my old Squier Strat but I quickly realized that I was not confortable with the superslim stat neck. I thought that Gibson thicker neck could have been the solution. So I went to the closest music shop and tried a Les Paul Tribute. I felt in love immediately. The agreement with my wife was the that guitar would have been my Xmas gift from her. But you know "the store has sales cuz of their anniversary celebration and it would be stupid to wait xmas to pay more"....oops So my first lovely LP is already in my hands.

Ciao everyone and thank you in advance for any feedback. I'm trying to learn a bit my brand new LP (it's a Tribute model). I was finding super difficult to bend, super hard on the fingers and extra painful on the fingertips (like no calluses were there...same feeling as the first time with the fingers on the strings) I was coming from a Squire Strat with 9s and the LP comes with 10s. Ok the string gauge difference, but I felt the difference was too much. Then I've investigated a bit on the stopbar height and I've realized that it was so low that the strings were touching the back of the bridge. I've decided to raise it a bit, at least until the strings were not touching the back of the bridge anymore, reducing also the strings angle. Now i feel much easier and les painfull to bend. But here my question: is it now the stopbar too high or is it fine? (see image attached) I also read about the top wrapping, but this baby is just few weeks old and I would prefer not to scratch stopbar finishing. Just to anticipate potential question: neck already checked with Gibson specs, as well as the action.