rpavich

It's snark...I'll disregard.

You don't have to get snarky....I posted the Official video from Gibson TV that explains it. I also said that I don't have BADLY set up guitars, my guitars play spendidly...I was just wondering if anyone else has ever achieved the target of 3/64...that's all. In the video that I posted above the Gibson tech himself didn't achieve it...he settled on 4/64. Why do people have to resort to insults and dismissal when they disagree?

Google doesn't agree with Gibson TV themselves....see video posted above right from Gibson.

According to Gibson TV and the guy on the QC line who does this set up...it's 12th fret as I described.

On the guitars where you have attained 3/64ths action, can you do a one or one and a half step bend with the high E above the 12th fret and not hear any issues?

At the 12th fret, bottom of string to top of fret

I don't think that there is anything to "solve"...I'm just observing that the 3/64ths is a pipe dream....I've had hundreds of guitars in my lifetime and dozens of Gibsons...and not one has ever achieved that nirvana...I was just wondering about other's experiences...that's all. I guess the only thing to solve is to find that pink unicorn...the guitar that meets their published specs! 🙂

I'm not saying anything is incorrect at all...my guitars play and feel great! However...that's not the same as "my guitar as 3/64th's of an inch action on the treble side without fretting out. Those two statements aren't equal. I'm not complaining that my guitars aren't made well or aren't set up well...I hope I was clear on that. NOTE: the official published gibson specs are: (Not capo'd) 3/64th action treble side 5/64th action bass side. Neck relief: .005 - 010 capo'd at 1st fret and held down at about 15th fret. My neck relief is in spec...I shoot for .005" and my bass side is 5/64ths'...easily achieved. The "never have achieved without compromise" part is the treble action. Usually they end up between 3.5/64ths up to 4/64ths if I want them to play clean.

I've been vexed by this for years..I read that the specs for Gibsons with the 12" radius necks for action is 3/64" for the treble side and 5/64th for the bass side. I've had many many many Gibsons of all types through the years...new and used. I've had them set up professionally and done my own sometimes....but I've NEVER legitimately had 3/64ths" treble side action WHILE achieving NO fretting out or fretting out on big bends above the 12th fret or just plain "that high E doesn't sound as clean as the rest of the strings..." sort of thing.... I just got a 2001 SG 76 Reissue which has really nice action and plays well..but when the action gets below 4/64 there is no way to keep it from either rattling or fretting out on those high bends. I also recently got a Les Paul JR 2023 model..it has FANTASTIC action right out of the box...3/64 treble side legit....but...it's prone to not very clean notes on the high E and when bending above the 12th fret (high E) it will fret out or get a bit muted or at the very least the high E isn't as "clean" as the rest of the notes... What is your experience with this? I ask because I just happened to see a video where a guy had a brand new tribute les paul right from the factory and he decided to send it to his luthier to evaluate the factory set up...and lo and behold...the treble side action was 4/64....right from the assembly line....some QA guy signed off on it but in reality...it didn't meet spec...

I know that this is a necro-thread but I'm very excited! My blueshawk (96 Heritage Cherry) will be delivered tomorrow... I have a Nighthawk now and absolutely love it...and I'm hoping that I'll love this one too. My back certainly will. 🙂 I've had to dump all of my heavy guitars and substitute light ones for them due to having degenerative disk disease....

I've been doing some digging and I think that this is the "Memphis tone circuit" wiring...my question is: is this weird behavior normal for that wiring setup? If anyone has a memphis tone circuit guitar, can they check to see if it does this?

Hi, I just received this guitar and love it. It plays like butter and sounds great but I have one question that's perplexing me...it's the two knob version and I thought it was "one volume, one tone" but the tone knob seems to be a volume knob OR the tone rolls off punch and volume or something. It acts like a volume knob. Can anyone shed light on this behavior? here is a video showing what it does...