zosofan

I had it back to the store ( long and Mcquade). Their tech said static was normal and they all did that. I've had it set up professionally 3x now. The last time I paid large cash for a custom builder to give it a look. He got the action down a tad but it's still * almost* slide guitar height. Apparently he figures the neck angle is wrong as fret buzz everywhere if he sets the relief lower than about 75-80 thou. He checked serial # and apparently she was made on a Friday. ( hard 2 believe) YouTube videos show the static thru amp issue pretty clearly. I will probably swap the rear covers to deal with that. The strings cutting hard into rear of bridge between the bridge and tailpiece I will " fix" by doing the tail wrap thing with the strings. Not a huge deal as I was going 2 do that anyway. Thanks for the reply.

I'm really really late 2 the party here but Google showed up this thread. Apologies. My wife bought me a 2019 Les Paul tribute 2 years ago. Great looking and sounding guitar but easily the worst guitar I own. And I own some $200 Chinese guitars and a Squier Strat. My Les Paul tribute needs the bridge JACKED up almost as high as she goes or she has major fret buzz everywhere. The tailpiece even when jacked as high as it goes needs the angle on the strings to be so steep that the strings cut HARD into the rear edge of the bridge. Also the electronics are garbage. When plugged into my amp the thing has 60 cycle hum LIKE CRAZY . All my other guitars are dead silent thru the same rig so it's not my cables/amp. And to top it off when you touch the cavity covers while playing you get lots of loud static crackles and pops thru the amplifier. Worst guitar gear disappointment of my life. Waited like 40 years to get a " real" Gibson Les Paul and I sincerely wish I had stuck with Squier as my Squier is 100x better than my Gibson POS. Sorry 4 the rant but my wife paid $1500 For a guitar that easily gets it's *** handed to it by Korean copies costing under $300. Never buying a Gibson again.