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I agree. P-90's are fantastic. Such a solid signal for a single coil. I had two cheapos that I sold to help fund other things, but a P-90 guitar will happen again.

I'm a Tele guy, myself. A Broadcaster, actually, with the 1951 wiring. Led Zeppelin to Keith Richards to Country Twang. I sold my USA Strat and USA Tele and other items to fund. I need to take some of my own pics. For now, one from the online store.

Good thing we have a place to come and talk guitars & tunes.

Congrats, differentsky! I liked the D-35s and HD-35s I tried (3 total) on my way to a Re-Imagined D-41.

Nice! I still get warm fuzzies every time it comes out to play. The recording does very well to tell you what it feels like behind one of these HC RW SJ-200's. That rolling rumble thing is awesome. I remember when mine started doing that about a year ago. The maple Standard I had for a while did something like that, too, but was a little thicker on the bottom and snappier at the top. So much fun either way. Thanks for posting, JCV.

Very nice all the way around. Well done.

The Standard I had was a 2018, too. I had almost forgotten how bright that rear burst was until I saw those pics.

I dunno..... the baked top thing and that finish sure is is nice. I've got three Gibson baked tops and even the one I despised when I got it is starting to make the grade. There is something special about them. That said, I really dig the Original going with bone nut & Saddle and the 4 piece bridge inlay. There is a LOT to like.

You see them pop up on the AGF classifieds from time to time. Most people want near retail these days, though. There's supposedly one Original Standard on the Music Villa site. They were a class act with my Dove last year. https://musicvilla.com/collections/gibson-acoustics/products/gibson-j200-maple-vs-1129 I had assumed the supplies would be increasing by now, what with the doubling of the Bozeman factory.

Reminds me of a Johnny Carson & Ed McMahon classic segment when they both lost it. Johnny was supposed to answer the question in an envelope. "Describe the sound when a sheep explodes".

As far as the guitar itself, I've used the ever popular Virtuoso cleaner. It works quite well. I got their polish, too, but had not tried it until yesterday. I suppose it did not do a bad job at all, either.

My favorite description is "Angry Cicada". Years ago, I somehow got a Cicada to rest on a badminton racket and flung it across the yard lacrosse-style. It made the most gawd-awful loud buzzing pi$$ed off, petulant mid-range sound I have ever heard in my life. So, "Angry Cicada" is how I describe the first 3 months of that baked adi J-45 before settling down with some Sunbeams.

The ways companies think about CS and customer satisfaction can be extreme. Some CFO decides that it's an area to save $$$ and the whole corporate paradigm changes from good CS to stop the bleeding. A Marketing head gets too much negative feedback from focus groups and crabby dealers beats his fist into the table 5 years later and all of a sudden policy changes to extreme flexibility to stop losing sales. It's not too hard to imagine the reputations both companies had 10 years ago having big influences on current day policy. Gibson balanced out their negative reputation by making sure if something did happen, it got fixed - one way or another. Martin's rep was far better. Theirs was to stop the $$ leak. Remember how bad Chrysler was at one point? Lee Iococca came up with that massive warranty to help balance out the negative sentiment with a piece of mind. I'm not claiming any company did or did not deserve the reputations or lingering common perceptions.

Mine has one, too. That said, it did not come with something that I thought was oddly omitted. In the end, I was just PO'd at the condition of the guitar itself and any little nit bothered me at that point. It did clean up well, though.

Two out of three of my 2020-2021 guitars came with the humidipacks. Can't remember which one did not. Yes, stay on CS. Perhaps get the dealer more involved. Their response times can be maddening. They are effective. Just maddening to deal with. Edit: for what it's worth, my most recent went to a local shop to have some playability concerns as well as a bunch of glue/buffer cleanup around the nut and bridge.

Wouldn't something like that be detrimental to the effects from back-filing the head-stock side of the nut slots?

We have our winter-heat dry season here. 36-38% RH. I think mine like being around 45%. Summer times is a struggle to keep below 58-60%. Late November rolls around and they all get sweeter sounding. Humidipacks help. It seems like I only get a couple months a year where I could leave them out for an extended period. Anyhow, don't you just love the way an SJ-200 engulfs you when it's rolling along to some nice strumming? One can feel the rumble with ease. No way to capture that with a mic, but the sound itself can be heard. That feeling, though. Nice!

Congrats, pimousso! That's a fine looker. Enjoy! Hummingbirds rock. Quite literally. And congrats to you, Twang Gang! I was wondering about those Sweetwater blue Maples. Any reports to share compared to your Original from last year(IIRC)?

Indeed! I was thinking along the same lines, though I was lacking in the eloquence department. And congrats to pimousso for scoring a gibbo! Is there a thread with pics I missed? differentsky, this is definitely not a buyer's market right now. There have been some interesting used prices lately, and that's saying something given last year's market. Good luck with your search.

It's been a couple of years since I've watched any of them, but some of the promotional videos had some generalized verbiage that might have had a hint or two for whatever it is you might be hunting for. There may be some detailed knowledge in these forum pages over the years as folks with fine vintage examples have examined theirs versus new re-issues and historic collections. Some have even sent their vintage guitars in to Gibson per Gibson's request to be x-rayed in efforts to copy the old ways or to at see how they ticked.

That was nice, rbpicker! I'd all but forgotten about that song. Nicely done. 🙂

For my HC 1942 Banner J-45, my thoughts echo those you have heard on going through strings for a softer and fuller sound. Mine was also a new build, which others here have suggested as another aspect to consider. The baked adi on my HC Pre-War SJ-200 with RW B&S was sweet sounding the day it was delivered and got sweeter and sweeter in the 18 months I've had it.

It will be interesting to see if I switch over to a brighter string a few years from now if mine continues to simmer down. It's sound projection is impressive, though.

Nice looking LP! Congratulations.

Congrats on your find! Looks like a good price, to boot, and that was before your offer. $3k for and aged Addy top and all. I've got the 2021 model. l have a feeling getting a used one would have been a much better way to go for me. Some sunbeams seems to have tamed her enough to get into my play rotation.