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  1. Little late to this, but here is some info. Gibson started using a few various forms of COA's around 1997/98. I have seen pics of them. Not all Historics got them however. The ones that may people have seen, the large sunburst one started around late 2001 early 2002. I have a Historic Firebird 1 from 2002 that has one. That style stayed around until 2007. Early 2007's had the large sunburst one and roughly mid year ,they switched over to the smaller 5" x 6 1/2" still in use today. The early large ones had the model and serial number stamped in ink although I have seen some that were hand written. The current ones, since 2007, they are hand written I have a 2007 R7 hand written and a 2023 58 Junior DC that is hand written. In reality, case candy and a COA is important only if the owner / seller / buyer feels it is important. Many don't care. I am an OCD kinda guy and I want my Historics to have all the goodies they came with. I am fortunate, my used 04 R9 had everything. So did my 23 Junior but I bought that new. The other four Historics had bits and pieces and I have slowly added pieces parts so that now all of my Historic / Custom Shop models have all that documentation. Now if I could just find a 2002 Gibson Custom Firebird case...
  2. Looks like the info I got from Mat Kohler at Gibson has been spot on so far. Modding one of the Epi Birds works great. Already has CTS pots and Orange Drops. Just add in the Switchcraft jack and switch and you're good to go. Faber makes a replacement ABR style bridge. https://faberusa.com/product/3060-0-abrm-bridge-ez-gloss-nickel/ I personally don't care for locking tuners of any type but if you're set on them, Grover does make a left hand locking set of tuners. I know because I had an Epi Bird with them on it. Good luck!
  3. Crow, REPEAT AFTER ME: NEVER TRUST GIBSON'S WEB SITE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  4. Crow, You're welcome! you are right about the build quality on the IBG Firebird. In my opinion, it's the best bang for the buck going.. That being said, IF Gibson has a substantial price increase, I suspect there USA production sales will take a hit and the Epiphone line will have an increase. Additionally, there are tons of used Gibson's out there and there are always deals to be had. Personally, there are only a few Epi models I would consider owning. That's not meant to disparage the entire line. I have owned probably a dozen Epi Les Paul models and I have always found them to be lackluster in playability, tone and overall sound. I find their build quality quite high however. The Epi Birds, Flying V and Moderne models are great guitars too. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the coming months and the new couple of years.
  5. If you wrap banjos correctly, a good tight wrap, there are no issues with banjos.
  6. Ok, so you've been here since 2014 and owned many Gubsons. Your comment suggested otherwise.
  7. Agree! I am curious to see what the price increases will look like in 2023. Can't remember when they go up, sometime in the first quarter if I'm not mistaken.
  8. Sarge, your comment makes it sound like you are NOT a Gibson fan. If that is the case, why are you here?🤔🤔🤔
  9. Crow, I've had two of those Epi's. IMHO, best bang for the buck out there. Real CTS pots, orange drops. Only complaint I had was why did they cheap out on the switch and jack? I replaced mine with Switchcraft ones and it's good to go!
  10. SteveFord, In my original question to Mat Kohler of Gibson, I mentioned that the tuners are too close together. I suggested to mat that maybe Gibson could fan out the tuners like Epiphone does on their IBG Firebirds. I put strip tuners on mine so that it resembles a 65 transition model.
  11. There have been some reports of people who were lucky enough to get 2020 USA Firebirds. There are three firebird FB groups that I belong to and occasionally a 2020 pops up.
  12. Wmachine, First, Gibson has not been diligent in updating certain areas of their website. It's been that way since the new ownership took over. Second, have you not read my previous post where I named the source of my information? I got my info from Mat Koehler, who is with Gibson Product Development. The original info came from Mat in a post on the Les Paul Forum. In short, several in this thread have tried to order USA Birds with no success. I have given info from a Gibson rep saying USA Birds are no longer available. I think the point to take away is this: USA Firebirds are no longer available, regardless of what the Gibson site says.
  13. I started this thread and here we are almost to 2023 and still no USA production Firebirds of either variant. The Gibson contact I used as the basis for several of my posts is still on the Les Paul Forum. It would seem that his original information, at the time, was correct but no USA production of non revers birds has occurred yet. I personally believe that Gibson is still backed up in production on certain models. I do not think the Firebirds are a priority at this point in time based on the difficulty to make them. I will reach out again to see if there are any new developments.
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