blindboygrunt

Here's the culprit

Don't panic hogeye , you're still up there with the best of them ;-) I do indeed own the j45 historic , like Sal said. My favorite guitar ever no contest. The pickup is the fishman , made before they went with LR baggs stuff. It's a piezo pickup so what more can anyone say. Does it's job. No soundhole controls which is a b1tch and something to think about depending on what you'll be using it for. Guitar sounds like it should. I wouldn't be as nervous as folk will tell you to be about ordering one. Only thing I'd be watching for (apart from the obvious straight neck and so on that any guitar would need checked out) would be the saddle and the break angle of the strings. Make sure there's enough there to work with for a set up. If u like a low action. I'm not that worried about having a tall saddle but some gibsons start with very little. So, insist on pictures of that department if ordering from afar. Of course you should 'try em all' as will be pointed out no end. Best of luck. Pm me if you have any questions about this model.

Great stuff dman.

You're right. Don't be selling it. Can hear a bit of Neil young in there my friend. Bravo

Thanks Dan. Haven't a clue what I'm doing. Pure winging it :)

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What an ugly pickguard that is :-/

That's what nick has ? nice little thing.

brilliant. don't touch it then. my favourite answer. and one which makes sense.

considering I change car engine oil after 10,000 miles , I'm guessing a little blob the diameter of the circle it drops through once every 10 years for a tuner ?

I am assuming that the little hole on the back of the kluson style tuners is there for lubrication. what do you drop in there ?? just plain old 3 in 1 oil ? olive oil ? ky jelly? what's best ? leave it and don't worry ? cheers folks

that's how it should be ! fab stuff sir

people with talent are very annoying aren't they. :)

If she can stand it. play it ! of all the forums in all the towns in all the world , you had to walk into this one. nice job sam

i'll second that. those firestripe guards are lovely

happy days! glad you're sorted.

why's it stained ?

the strings aren't in properly. No arguing with that. I just reckon that I'd have trouble trying to get my strings in as wrongly as that. Can you get your bridge pins to go in their holes with the string out of its groove?

maybe if you've no time to read , you could look at the pictures ? no one has had anything collapse , but Randmos strings aren't seating properly. I'd call that a problem.

I'm with smurf here. I'd be bothered about that string twisting out of position. and I'm one of the less fussy people in here. Am a bit amazed that gibson say it's fine. It's obviously not fine.

why is everything kinda 'stained' looking ?

Don't know about the bridge being thicker. That string sitting funny like that is perplexing. Should be impossible to get it to sit like that. I'm nowhere close to as knowledgeable as a lot of folk on this forum , I'd like someone else to qualify what I'm thinking about it. I'm assuming that 'up top' the pin is straight and the string looks proper ? Sorry for your hassles, pain in the butt things like this are . Hope its all sorted for you soon.

How is that centre left string sitting the way it is? Doesn't look like the string is in the pin channel

Don't see anything scary in there.

Good points there. What you say though is leading down the path where this sort of thing is acceptable. I'm not saying you're finding it acceptable though , but it's a wrong world where you're having to get mirrors out for string changes. Traditional method , the Taylor method , and now on you tube we'll be seeing the Gibson method of string change that involves mirrors and gynocology.