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SteveFord

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  1. The problem, as I see it, is the string spacing on the nut. I've had an SG where they put the high E string a bit too close to the edge (for you Yes fans). Instead of taking a look at the nut they went with the Aircraft Carrier neck profile. Nibs should not present a problem with playing unless they're FUBARed. In all these years I've never had a problem with them, I always thought they were a classy touch.
  2. I've had a lot of Gibsons over the years but I've never seen one with a gap like that on the nibs. If that's the OP's sole experience with them I can certainly see why he soured on them. It might be the lighting but that looks like excessive fret wear from what is supposedly a brand new guitar. Who knows but I've never had a problem with nibs separating from the frets in close to 45 years. Dumb luck, maybe.
  3. Those photos you posted of the fret show one that somebody cut too short. No wonder you don't like nibs, I wouldn't if my guitar had a defect like that one, either.
  4. Plastic disc under the pick up selector switch.
  5. I have no idea how to add you to my Friends List but I hope you keep your Lucille!

  6. That's a beauty. I take it the second toggle switch is for coil splitting?
  7. There's some sloppy work on that guitar but it also looks like a really great instrument.
  8. Just got done listening to a couple of albums: Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Syd Barrett - Barrett
  9. Why do you have a picture of Jean Luc-Picard on the back of your head stock and why is he shaking his fist at the camera?
  10. Yes, they used trapeze tail pieces for quite a number of years. Most people hated them but I liked them on the two 335s that I bought new back then.
  11. For those who have the Les Paul ES, are you experiencing any feedback problems?
  12. I'm with L5Larry on this one - they made a gazillion of them so why buy one that's taken a major shot and been glued back together? I bought a beautiful Martin that developed a headstock break (damaged in transit) and I didn't even try and negotiate on price, it went right back. Better to save your pennies and get one that hasn't been damaged.
  13. The ES-347 will become collectible when Eric Clapton is shown with one on an album cover. He'd better hurry up, he's no Spring Chicken. I'm one to talk, I turn 56 this Saturday. How the hell did that happen?
  14. Nah, you just pump the crap into the F-holes until the grease oozes out of the input jack.
  15. I had to make my own out of plywood and an old sofa that someone left out at the curb. I think they must have owned a lot of cats.
  16. Rosewood isn't an endangered species as far as I'm aware. Let's hope it stays confined to that one model.
  17. I always looked at a gig bag as being a bit of an insult as in the guitar isn't really good enough to merit a real case. An SG Standard is not a piece of crap guitar, it deserves better than a complimentary gig bag.
  18. I was waiting for him to post a picture of his actual guitar but that never happened. I always thought it was a good idea to take them out of the case and give everything a quick polish and oiling several times a year at the very least.
  19. The Doors music has really stood the test of time. If their first album was released today it would still knock everybody's socks off. Compare that album to the tripe which passes for music today. Taylor Swift? HA!
  20. It doesn't look like he went to Africa to live the life of a poet/shaman and will pop back up, does it? He was such a great talent but there just wasn't anyone to tell him to quit being such an idiot and sober up.
  21. Stamped by his own perfect hand? What kind of a book signing is that? He must have stolen the idea from someone else...
  22. Like they've said, they're all over the map; the ones I liked best were from the Norlin era, the one McCarty era one I had I gave away to a friend (that's how much I liked it), the recent era ones have ranged from what a pile to real good, I can not comment on the Custom Shop models as I've never owned one, the brand new Gibson USA models have gone in a different direction. That is the truth as I know it.
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