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Thanks for replying and forgive me for being late replying back to you. I was for some unknown reason, unable to log into this forum. I was only able to log in today, and even then I was still forced to create another password. What I wanted to say was the entire range of these these guitars sound their very best with Classic 57s. If you want to verify this scientifically you can hook it up to an Oscilloscope and view the sign waves as compared to other pups. The way these guitars are constructed, the 57s just seem natural for them. Best way to see for yourselves is to fire one up, wait a few minutes, then listen to how good your axe sounds when playing it thru the 57s as compared to the other pickups.

The earlier Eppies, prior to them being manufactured overseas, were of the same quality as USA Gibsons and are nearly impossible to find, and if one can be found in good condtion, it will be far too expensive for the average Joe to afford to purchase. But the one in this photo is definitely a beauty no matter where it was made.🙂

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True dat. I think the smell of a new Gibson is what hooks most people more than it's aesthetics or playability.

True dat. Fender has followed suit and are now being just as greedy. However, with Fender seldom does a customer ever encounter QC issues.

I'm just a 76 year old hippie from the Laguna Beach Brotherhood. I owned guitar stores in Hollywood, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa during the '60s and '70s and have been collecting them since the late 1950s. I love Gibsons so I collect them and hoard them. Luckily I have a big mansion to store them in.

I'm 76, been collecting, selling and repairing Gibsons and Strats since the late 1950s. I owned guitar stores on the west coast off and on for 50 years, so yes, I have more than 400 guitars, mostly Gibsons and Fenders. Luckily I also have a big mansion to store them in. I'm just an old hippie from the Laguna Beach Brotherhood that loves Gibson guitars.

I have the 2019 Exclusive Original SG in dark aged cherry with the shark tooth Vibrola Maestro that I bought from zZounds in 2019. Utter perfection and playability, has '57 classics and sounds marvelous. I put on a Wilkerson roller bridge and Kluson Keystone locking tuners and haven't had a tuning issue since. Since I have more than 400 guitars this baby has gotten no playtime at all, but I have been offered $2,500 for it on several occasions of which I turned down because this axe is a rarity, only 350 of them made and is of custom shop grade...plus I've never seen an SG of this quality. I paid $1600 for it in '19 and they're already selling for $2500 and more if you can find one or find someone willing to sell. IMO this is the best SG the company ever made and I don't blame owners for not wanting to sell them.

Lol!🤣

Gibson has so much ambiguity and QC issues due to their greed, that one never knows what those pups are going to sound like. I love Gibson guitars, I owned a guitar store in the 1960s and 1970s in Southern Cal and used to sell them, no greed or QC issues back then. Today when I buy a Gibson I don't even bother to listen to what it sounds like because I always have a pair of Lollar's already waiting for the guitar when it arrives.

I just bought a brand new 2021 ES-335 Figured from zZounds, and it came with a broken tone pot and won't stay in tune even 1 second. With tax and their processing fee it cost over $4,300. It plays and sounds wonderfully but can't stay in tune long enough to get through a song's introduction. zZounds reached out to Gibson for a replacement tone pot....ain't heard back from Gibson yet. Seems like the only way to get a good Gibson anymore is to buy it from the CS, which of course prices the poor man out of the equation and out of the market. A damn shame.

Lol, true dat.

Sorry, I only take orders from my wife.

Lol, the vag of course.

Lol, yes it would. I copyrighted the name long ago. But would a girl band look better wearing the name as opposed to a male one?

Lol, good sense of humor. But yes, the Guild Starfire VI is a wonderful guitar, much better than its Gibson counterpart.

When I say "rolled", I mean the sharp right angle is "softened" just enough to smooth the edge without sacrificing any fretboard real estate, sort of like the high end PRS's. I'm thinking you're referring to a rolling like Fender does on its fingerboards, which in my humble opinion is a little too much, especially in their higher end models.

I just purchased a brand new Gibson SG Standard Bass in ebony for $1500, but actually $1700 with tax and handling fees when all was said and done, and I must say that I'm really fuming that the fretboard edges are right angled and sharp and not rolled. I have twenty six Gibsons ranging from the economically faded SG and LP studios, to a 1958 LP. With the exception of the '58 and several other of the older models, the fretboards are either rolled or at least the sharp edges are dulled. However, this new Bass' fingerboard doesn't even pretend to be anything other than a sharp knife in the hand. I'm really tired of the way Gibson consistently chooses to screw its customers around and around, and at the very highest prices at that! I'm through with them forever, unless they make a guitar with a vagina on it, and it better be a good one too. I also purchased a 2019 Blonde Guild Starfire VI for $1400 that puts all Gibsons, I've ever seen and played (I'm 75 years old and played the chittlin circuit during the early 1960', and later a studio rat for Capital and Decca) including the ES-355 to shame IN EVERY WAY! And it's Korean manufactured. Far better quality, infinitely superior playability, infinitely superior pups, and infinitely superior tonal quality. Sounds like heaven through any kind of amp or pedal too, and they make Gibsons look, sound and play like garbage. Since I first picked the Starfire VI up and played it, I haven't even thought about a Gibson. I'm going to sell them all and just get several more Guilds, they're so much more superior in every way.

Niiiiiiize Plexi! Excellent demo too!

Put a Bigsby B5 Vibramate Vibrato system on it. They retail for about $145-$180 and worth every penny. You won't have to drill holes in that beast, nor will you have to deface and devaluate it in any manner. Plus, you can remove it and reinstall the original bridge that came with the axe anytime you desire, and you'll never even notice the difference. This vibrato system will also improve both sustain and playability. The crescent moon, ebony fret board versions are very rare and limited, and can command prices up to $1500 in good shape.