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this is asked about... mmm. a million times it's the nitro they spray the guitar with. no it's not a QCC problem.. as others will exclaim.. they tape off areas of the guitar not to get nitro, spray the whole thing with nitro.. not once but multiple times.. then take the tape off..

This is a forum made up of users not Gibson the manufacturer the manufacturer has moved on from this tech. Many’s users such as yourself also have probably you will have to too

audio pots are usually for volume linear pots are usually for tone. think the original 50's all were audio taper.

It’s just swirl try a $50,000 black car swirls , stone chips and door dings nitro is nitro , poly is poly all will show Your replacement Slash standard finish is same finish when surface gets grungy take a clean cotton rag. Use Namath to clean the sweat and dirt off don’t polish

Try do a search in the forum theres been robot tuner issues before might have hints for you in those threads

it’s just surface swirl. Not a problem not an issue wait till you hit a mic or music stand. And when playing outside where mosquitoes are DO NOT wear bug spray play the gig, let the mosquitoes bit you (have you owned a black car? Cars for the most part are 10x more than a guitar. Yes my grand national had swirl marks)

It’s the black finish that shows the swirls the swirls are there Even on cheap Polly Chinese clone Strat I own

You clean nitro guitars with naphtha don’t bother polishing nitro is thin too much polishing will dig through the nitro layers over time

Paul David’s posted a video on his YT channel stating Little Wing is one of the hardest songs to play. Interesting check it out cool I know what it’s like to play live in front of people, that’s a skill set unto its own i always say , make the song your own

It’s “true” thin binding all around so that’s the maple cap that was stained with the back some time in the 70’s they put a thicker binding there as maple cap visible confused buyers. they’ve long since gone back to narrow binding

This topic has been pounded for years its not a grounding issue it’s part of the electrostatic paint process until the nitro cures it seems to remain no tech can resolve, no wires to ground will help like walking across a carpet grabbing a door knob many have reported success with wiping the guitar with a dryer sheet and adding one in the control panel

looks good to me. headstock looks right.. body shape looks right.

quick google on " Les Paul VOS rusty screws" and one can find posts on VOS has dulled the finish of the guitar and some have reported rusty bridges and screws. think of it as a poor man's Murphy aged without Murphy's heavier price tag.

I've see lots of posts for Virtuoso (esp on the Les Paul Facebook group) I just stick to naphtha for cleaning totally safe.. just doesn't make glossy buffing.

At one time Gibson went through several design changes from 52-60. With different materials (and again under Norlin from 68-79 cheapening materials) there have been cases of bridges flattening out but that takes a number of years of the softer alloy metal they used . Not necessarily because the strings touched the back of the bridge but just the overall downward pressure. just like ABR bridges have screws facing one and Nashville bridges the other. And that has to do with screw hole slots and width of bridge also there are those that claim the “over tones” from the vibrating strings from the bridge to stop tail enhance tone . Even though the notes are created between the nut and the saddle and fret just like removing the pickup cover. At one time many players only had 1 gigging guitar. It the pickup failed they’d dive in and fix it. Putting the cover back on was just a PIA. And left it off. Leading the ‘guitar god’ to exclaim “there’s a tone difference.” these guitar gods were also in a “competition “ with each other many would turn their backs on the audience so nobody could try steal their riffs Many things on the internet are repeated many times without thought or explanation of why glad you decided what’s best for you