10PoundLester

Hey what gives? Mine didn't come with a cool hat and knife! But the pick guard was attached so that's a good thing.

This whole "relic" thing started by Fender back in the 90's is a scam if you ask me. How? Because then they don't have to worry about the finishing process which in most cases is the most intense part of an instrument build. Nobody's gonna notice a little ding or a little bit of roughness on the insides of a guitar or in a pickup cavity or neck pocket. But if there's one tiny fleck of dust in an otherwise perfect finish the world be DAMNED - we have to discount it or start over! So the geniuses at Fender decided to not only let those dings and imperfections through the QC process but they can CHARGE EXTRA for them! Woo-Hoo! What do you think?

I believe the original nut is some sort of plastic - nothing special. Since you're going in there I'd suggest bone. Can't go wrong. I chose unbleached bone so it sort of matches the tuners. Regardless of the material you choose, the nut has to be right or everything else suffers.

I found this exact scenario myself. I did the magnet-reversal on my LP and at first I liked it then after a while I realized that the difference was not to my liking. The Green pickup has other things going on - I believe it not only had the magnet reversed but was also wound in a reverse direction like they do to modern Strat middle pickups.

If it's fake they did a pretty good job on the front of the headstock. The tuners look right. I have two Gibson electrics. Neither has the word "MODEL" on the back of the headstock. Serial number doesn't come up in two of the lookup services I know of. Go https://serial-number-decoder.com/gibson/gibson.htm here and enter it and it tells you the guitar is from 1960. That probably doesn't mean much though since their serial numbers have been known to be a bit "off" from time to time.

That's what happened to me when I spotted this one. I did what I had to to make sure it ended up with me.

No soul - like Taylor acoustics. They all sound the same to me.

I tried picking one of those up once. Literally!

In my late 20s I developed herniated discs in my lumbar spine. Sciatica was so bad I was suicidal. I could not sit for any length of time because the intense pain almost blacked me out. I wasn't going to do the surgery because I had friends who did and it failed - made things much worse. As a last resort I went to a little old Korean doctor for acupuncture. His office smelled like a mixture of incense, fish and Ben-Gay. I went every day for two weeks. He cured me. No problems again for 30 years. Fast forward to now - I'm entering my late 60s and the sciatica is back albeit not as intense as it was back when it first hit me. I deal with it by stretching. That seems to take care of it, for now. I refuse to take NSAIDs. That crap gave my wife stomach cancer. Now I'm getting the pain down my arms into my hands so I guess I have some disc issues in my thoracic or cervical spine as well. Like Digger, I find that a CBD gummie will also help a bit.

Hell at MY skill level I have no business buying ANY name-brand instrument! But like you, I was lusting for a 335. Found this one on Reverb. Looks a lot like SteveFord's

Thank you also! Your 335 looks sorta like mine.

Thanks! Nice LPC there - never seen one with P90's.

I actually called Sweetwater where I got it and they said they could take the guitar back in exchange for another one. Like I'm sending it back because of the nut. I was trying to tell them that their "inspection" missed this and why it was a bad nut job. The guy didn't understand my point. I did send an email to Gibson just to let them know my opinion of their QC but of course never heard back from them. Anyway, I didn't mean to hijack the OPs thread here! Sorry about that. 😊

Crazy ain't it? It's as if they used a dull chisel. The stones of Machu Picchu are cut cleaner!

Same here . . .

I had the same issue on my LP Standard. The saddle was already maxed out and reversed - there was nowhere to go. So I got a Nashville bridge and that solved it. They are a tad wider than a standard ABR-1 so there was enough room to intonate. I also put a bone nut on it since the factory nut looked like it was chopped out by an apprentice on his first day. New bridge: Stock nut - looks like an apprentice cut the slots with a dull butter knife: New bone nut:

Here from the great Middle of Nowhere USA. Currently own 2 Gibsons - a 2018 Memphis 335 in Figured Natural finish and a 2019 Les Paul Standard 50's. I like them both. They are probably the best Gibsons I've ever owned and I've had plenty of them. I couldn't see spending the (way) extra cash on any Custom Shop or Murphy Lab guitars. These two are just fine for me. I don't gig or anything so it's just me in my garage. Ten Pound Lester ES-335

FWIW at this point in time I own a 2018 Memphis 335 Figured Natural and I like it a lot. I don't have a Nashville-built one to A/B it against but I don't know how they might be any better than this one I have. There's nothing wrong with it other than the red stain from the neck bleeding onto the binding and the back wood near the heel - which is common - I had the same issue with a '70's Cherry one I had back then. Pink binding. Actually I don't know why they bothered to stain the neck since the rest of it is natural - but that's not the point.

Beautiful!

What Wmachine said.

2018 Memphis Figured Natural

My 2018 Memphis 335 has them and I truly love them. I wanted to find a set for my Les Paul until I did the Peter Green mod to the neck BB1. But in the 335 the MHS are the nuts. They were specifically designed for these guitars and I think Gibson nailed it.

FWIW I love my 2018 Memphis 335 with the MHS pups. They are indeed very well suited for this guitar. I believe they were designed especially for the semi-hollow bodied guitars. There's a youtube video out there with that info.