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I agree that all gibsons should not have the problem. In fact I think all electrics should come completely shielded and grounded from factory. Especially for the price! I don’t know why most electric guitar makers put a ungrounded small strip of shielding buy the parts under the pick guard or spray the cavity with Shielding paint and then they don’t bother to ground it and they don’t even bother to completely shield the instrument. All this partial shielding they do doesn’t help anything at all.

Like I said, copper shielding 100% cure on my 2019 LPDC Tribute bass. No more static noise. The static noise was extremely loud crackling and pops when I touched the neck or while walking on carpeted floor, etc.. Now it is all gone. If you can hear it in your speakers then it is an electrical problem and the noise should be able to be sent to ground with proper shielding. Yes it is good practice to run a jumper wire from the closest location of copper shielding to the ground lug on your output Jack, or to one of the pot casings. You can strip one end of the shielding on the jumper wire and copper seal tape it to the copper shielding. But you will have to Solder the other end to the ground lug of your Output Jack. Oddly it made no difference if I did it with a jumper or not ( I experimented) I still got the same results with 100% removal of static noise. This may be because The pick guard shielding touches the lock washers of the pot casings when installed and the pots are wired to ground from factory. First step in shielding is to shield the entire cavity and pick guard, making sure you have connectivity between all the pieces of tape you used. Be sure to overlap the ends of the tape onto the top lip of the cavities so the pick guard shielding tape will contact the cavity tape when the pick guard is reinstalled. Reinstall pick guard. This makes a "box" of shielding around the electronics. See if that helps without the jumper to ground first. No need to solder between pieces of tape if you used copper shielding tape with conductive backing like stewmac sells. Get the widest roll they sell. Also, when you first get the guitar, you should touch one probe of your multimeter to one of the strings and then touch to the OutputJack casing to make sure that you’re grounding in your entire instrument has connectivity then you know at least that much is correct from factory. If you loved the guitar that much you could always buy another one and then do the copper shielding if you feel up to it. I have copper shielded RF and static away on three of my basses successfully (even a semi-hollowbody bass). Add a hum bucker to get rid of the AC hum. If you want I will be glad to send pics so you can see what I did.

Welcome from Haert Cowny , Murlin. I see yer in Balmer.

1. electricity 2. Cuz Gibson for some reason won’t fully shield their instruments at factory I guess. 3. Easy DIY copper shielding entire cavity with slight overlay and copper shielding entire back of pick guard created a copper box of sorts when guard installed. It 100% fixed this problem on my 2019 LPDCTribute bass, silenced my 4003, too. Explorer a little diff but same principle. Pm me and I’ll send pics if needed. It is so easy to do it yourself. No need to unsolder anything. Just apply tape and check connectivity with a multimeter . Done. Where are you? In DMV? If so I could do it for you for fun.

You could call Gibson and ask if it is normal? Or the dealer. On my Les Paul DCTribute bass I see what it looks like that piece of wood sticking out of mine too but it’s all covered up with globular paint so I can’t see what condition that piece of wood is in.

I use Fender custom shop fingerboard stuff. But any rosewood fingerboard stuff should work fine. But just be sure no silicone in it. I have a lacquered maple board on my blue flower strat. Sometimes I want to scallop it. If so I would Probly oil it sometimes with something for maple just to help seal it a little. If it started getting all relic looking I would not put anything on it. I guess the grunge would be sealing it at that point.

They land on me when I am outside. You can see their dead carcasses stuck in peoples’ car grills. No point in a car wash until they go away. All said I am enjoying them a lot and they are fun to watch. They kinda fly clumsy like bumble bees. When they land on the water the turtles come runnin to snarf them up!!

Maestro vibrolas looks cool but not so much travel, in my experience. Also, on my ‘61 reissue, arm rode so low it scraped v and t knobs. Also it was pretty much all or nothing on the arm bolt. Free swing or locked tight. No stiff but adjustable setting. Also, arm must be removed or swung back towards strap button to shut case. There are way better functioning vibratos out there. Even a vintage style strat vibrola works way better, just for reference. I would not get one again. For my next SG I would try the Dusenburg Les Trem.

But what is that cracked piece above the trod and under the nut?

All over the place in HoCo and PG Co, MD And loouuuddd!!! Kids are loving catching them and throwing them into flight!!

Guild S-100

I was checkin out their new page of this year's models lineup and I am astounded at some of the high prices, even for what are standard models. You have to probably be in the top 15% of earners nationwide or have some serious guitar priorities to afford some of these models. There are a few sub-1kUSA$ models still, of course. Not just Gibson but marketwide I notice this for MUSA guitars of any brand. I wonder if the whole guitar market is going to come crashing down at some point and prices will have to dramatically drop for them to stay in business. Will they out-price themselves? It would be interesting to see model sales per year, by brand of manufacturer to see how many $1800+ models are being sold each year.

It’s a 336, not a LP.Contact Gibson. There may be a reason they want that pickup tilted.

We got lots in Columbia and Laurel.

Bass>Aguilar Tonehammer DI box>studio monitors at home or direct to church board.

I know very little about either but: 1. Looks wise - indubitably les paul 2. Weight wise-ask your body. 3. Whichever has the shorter scale if you are under 5’9” tall. 4. Going into the guitar purchase while pondering resale value is like going into a marriage with a prenup. Wrong attitude. You are already thinking you might split up. Obviously the (ahem) “guitar” isn’t compelling enough to you for that “I’ll never sell it” abandon one needs for a better or worse commitment from you so you should keep looking before committing. Ok not a great analogy but you get my drift. 5. Put a dusenberg les trem on the les Paul and you got yourself a vibrato.

Guild S-100 guitar Guild JS-II bass

Blue Flower Pbass Rickenbacker 4003 Guild Starfire Gibson LPDCTribute in worn brown. The Gibson is the best playability and sound.

In audio engineering class they told us if you add a second stack it only increases the overall sound by 10dB when they are full up, iirc.

Dave’s Guitars in Wisconsin is excellent too.

Thanks for the info. It definitely sounds good to my ears. Just doesn’t sound like a tone you would think someone would shoot for. Like when you hear it you don’t think, “man , what pedals does he use?”. Just sounds like a nice sounding no frills guitar and amp setup. That’s interesting why he picked that sound. But it does turn out sounding great. Probly cuz of the spontaneous sounding style of the content of the playing is a good match for the rawness of the tone he has. Very interesting.

I remember hearing this in the 80’s and just heard it again tonight. One interesting thing I noticed is that while a lot of people seem to strive for “that tone” in their head, it is plain to hear that Neil’s playing is clearly not a product of any tone obsession yet he pulls off one of the most beautiful soloing jobs I ever heard ( I could name some by others, too). I am not really a fan of his. Just enjoyed the beauty of his melodic playing mixed with the chord voicings while noticing it doesn’t sound like he was into tone shaping as much as just raw style playing. I assume it was a non-fender guitar. Sounds like a Gibson.

Tacoma TRD Sport Guild JS-II Guild S-100

She always said it in Motherese while sweetly smiling and kvelling over me. She adopted me at three months old so she’s allowed.