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No need to return here. I stayed with listening rather than looking anyway. B)

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On theory, but reality is in the ear of the listener. Please rework your theory to include the actual mechanical impedances valid for every single string on any possible guitar. I bet making adjustments sonically is myriads times faster. Enjoy your big bunch of friends! I'm also sure Dan Erlewine is glad to have your support.

Congrats, Tman, everything looks OK to me. I think they built some of these 2013 model year guitars after switching their embossments to 2014 numbers and codes. Perhaps it was due to high demand? There was rather limited supply during 2013 when I got to know two of these in person. Glad you're fine with her!

Does she still have her stock Dirty Fingers pickups? They are extraordinarily great (not only) on ES Gibsons. An ES-335 Dot Pro I tried at a shop around 1980 had them, too, and this guitar had the best Gibson ES tone I ever experienced personally.

There! So why did you make that lots of fuzz?

Belated Happy Birthday To You, Charlie Brown! :)

Real strings are not ideal strings. The bends are not sharp but slightly curved, so the effective string length is slightly shorter than the physical one between nut and saddle edges. This calls for compensation, and that's what adjustable saddles are made for. The length to be compensated won't depend significantly on the vibrating lenght which allows for a single adjustment matching the entire fretboard for each string if it is a properly made one. Hope this helps.

In fact it is all about proper intonation adjustability. All of the Tune-O-Matics in my use call for mixed slants. The plain G3rd's saddle is reversed on all of them, some call for a reversed B2nd saddle, others for flipping the E6th saddle, some for both. I found that there is very little predictability. It depends on the actual guitar and her interaction with the particular strings.

Well, I'm not 100% sure about the finish, so they maybe did a few only with this exact colour, but it can always be due to variations in dyes. Depending on timbers, even the same finish lot may translate differently on several guitars. However, in my belief she probably is a "normal" production model so to say, not part of a special edition. It would be interesting to know more about the pickups. Do they have six pole screws and six slugs or twelve pole screws each? What do the screw heads look like? Knowing this could be helpful for possibly determining the pickups without removing them. The pictures linked to your first post don't allow for judging these details.

Hello Highway Starr, and welcome here. To my eyes she looks like a standard Explorer guitar, and I think it's a cherry finish which maybe translates a bit different on the pictures, giving her a hue of purple. Gibson didn't make Explorers from 1959 to 1976, so this is an earlier one of the 2nd generation so to say. I'm not sure about the pickups on this guitar. I guess she came stock then with covered "tarbacks" designed by Bill Lawrence. Later they switched to other ceramic-loaded ones like Dirty Fingers and finally 496R/500T.

That's convincing. I just verified that and it was indeed matching all of the 1975 LPs I found. Thank you for your valuable informations, Larry!

Perhaps it's a little bit different here as lots of Deluxes were modded for what they later called Standards. That's a fact. I believe very few made it to Europe then, but there have been some imported by ISO, the official Gibson distributor for West Germany these days. They were located under one roof with my favorite musical instruments dealer. Sometimes the world seems to be rather small... Yep. On the other hand, I think completely enlightening what was going on is a next to impossible task. Evaluating the guitar in question specifically would be most helpful.

Hello Karma180, my opinions are as follows: The guitar has been a Deluxe from the factory, featuring mini humbuckers and Kluson style Deluxe machine heads. Some pre-owner(s) swapped the stock tuners, routed the guitar for full-size humbuckers and installed them, or had it done. Given that all, the jack plate story is just diversionary tactic. Any additional holes like those on the peghead's back would be a dealbreaker for me. Machine head replacements must be drop-ins, or I reject them. Just my two cents.

Why the mofos only? Clearly all of us here are affiliated with the company, regardless if mofo or not. What company? ;)

You're definitely right, but the truth is less funny in this case... [lol]

Same here. All of my original Gibson SG cases from 1978 to 2013 are fine.

The next October full moon will be in about two weeks. Perhaps a chance to catch a glimpse of the mystic part of it. ;)

This is my impression, too. The guitar pictured in his first post even wasn't a Gibson. Does he own any guitar at all?

In photographic laboratories making colour prints has always been a women's business. Their abilities in quickly evaluating negative (!) hues make them way better and faster in setting the filters than men.

Keep them coming! "Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited." - Albert Einstein Let's have some fun with reverse engineering of finish names

In your first post you had added a link to this picture: Sorry, but this is a photo of a badly neglected guitar. Merely the strings speak volumes of prolonged disregard and mistreatment. I have seen a lot, but I never saw a guitar looking like this. I'm in doubt if there's a chance to bring out public sympathy for the owner.

Perhaps I'm spoilt by more "reasonable" names like tea burst, cherry red, candy apple red, honey burst, tobacco burst, ebony, root beer and so on.

Very good idea! Looks rather likely to me. Taking a look at this picture of the Mirror Lake near Lake Placid reveals a fairly close match to the finish of my Strat:

I have none bearing it and guess it will stay that way. One of my Strats is Lake Placid Blue, her hue interestingly is very close to Pelham Blue and matches her nicely. My son said at the guitar store he loves it, and so we went with it.