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Leonard McCoy

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  1. The neck feels sticky on the back after some playing because the moisture in your sweat found on your palms sticks to the finish of the guitar. Sometimes I use Gibson Guitar Polish to wipe down the neck before playing, to make it perfectly clean and smooth, but then again my palms are not sweating much while playing. If you have got a lot of sweat build-up, the neck can become quite sticky and you won't be able to easily slide up and down the neck the longer you play in a single session (without wiping down the neck and washing your hands in between). One way to reduce that neck stickiness, while keeping the finish looking good, is to wipe down the neck with 1000- and 2000-grit micromash or, better yet, Mirka Abralon Silicon Carbide Sanding Pads. Start out with 1000 grit first and see how it feels. If you are not satisfied, switch to 2000, but remember that the higher grit you go, the closer you get to that initial stickiness of the neck. I hope this helps.
  2. Pictures would help evaluate the problem. It sounds like a really bad case, though. Any kind of layman work you do to the guitar can only make the issue worse and the value plummet—I can tell you that much already.
  3. Personally, I think it's a beautiful top. As opposed to an Antique Natural finish, noticably darker grain lines work for me on a Vintage Sunburst finish. The sides are supposed to be a dark brown, not black, so that is correct. But all that doesn't matter—it all comes down to whether you like it if it's going to be your guitar.
  4. Get a separate lower or higher saddle made for the summer or, conversely, winter. This way you can always adjust the action down or up as desired and when seasons change.
  5. Nitro never cures, it only ever dries. Sweaty hands can make the neck sticky or high temperatures.
  6. Whatever works. I mostly use a mixture of all available sources including video reference material, distill the composition down to a guitar tab such as these on my site, and internalize the whole thing by playing over and over again.
  7. Gibson cannot keep up with the demand due to covid and its effect on the customer being caged in at home and its effect on their work force. Delivery times can extremely high. To give you an idea: If I were to order a lefty Gibson 50s LG-2 in Vintage Sunburst now, the estimated time for delivery to Europe would be Summer 2022—one year from now.
  8. Nitrocellulose lacquer—like most lacquers—never cures; it only dries. Regarding the main topic, I have the very same model brand-new in my possession. I think the photo of the Les Paul Special in TV Yellow above may have made the transition between binding and fretboard extension look worse than it really is due to the interplay of shadow and light in the photo. There is always going to be a noticable transition there—that perhaps only the Custom Shop that sprays the nitrocellulose clear coat by hand can elmininate that perfecting the transition—and depending on the lighting condition might be more noticably visible under extreme than normal (lighting) conditions. In any case, you can always feel the transition by touch.
  9. That's the classic characteristic of a Gibson belly-up/down bridge. Welcome home!
  10. It's important to remember that Gibson's Reverb shop ships to only the continental United States. If you see zero listings, that's why—simply switch the "Ship To" dropdown menu to the "Continental U.S." As for the offers in the shop themselves, I think they're a steal especially if you're looking for something a little out of the ordinary. And electric guitar lovers will find unique guitars there (even prototypes), which is why the main of the inventory is usually scooped up shortly after posting.
  11. Not much to say here. You mostly live with such a ding as you won't get an invisible repair anyway. As you can reasonably expect with such a ding, there is no impact to the structural integrity of the headstock...
  12. Double-check the wiring of the pickup selector. This is the only component that changed so the first thought is that the fault lies there.
  13. If it's not pickup height, this one can be difficult to diagnose. I suggest bringing the guitar in to a luthier to have a qualified look.
  14. And you don't see the irony here when ill-informed professional performers load up on huge amounts of water despite their bodies not being dehydrated and drinking them ad nauseam unable to combat a dry throat? Makes me crack up each time I see it.
  15. To answer your question, apparently, yes, it is possible. Not sure what you think you're seeing here.
  16. Gibson never discontinued their M2M program. I'm surprised you didn't go with the "V" shaped neck; it fits those guitars quite well.
  17. A new guitar tab: Roadsinger (2009) Part of a much darker album, “Roadsinger” is a Western and country song at its core written in the purest of keys (C major), with various guitar hooks scattered throughout, making it perfect for a finger/strum-style technique such as Cat’s.
  18. There are no swap-out parts for this. Gibson's experiment to use plastic bridges on some of their acoustic guitars failed anyway and quickly came to an end. It resulted in warped and unseated plastic bridges, poor coupling, and hence poor tone. The best course of action is to make a new custom bridge, perhaps slightly oversized, out of dark rosewood to match the Brazilian fretboard, to strip the lacquer underneath (for plastic bridges were only screwed on), properly glue it surface-to-surface, and route a saddle slot. This way the vintage look (on this entry-level guitar) is kept in tact while improving upon tone and volume. It is probably not ill advice to swap out the bridge plate as well (you're too deep in it anyway at this point).
  19. That's going to be a tough search...
  20. Summer is almost upon us. It's getting hot and dry out there, and so is your throat when inhaling between phrases during singing. Though counterintuitive, avoid drinking any water, tea, or alcoholic beverages. Here are the top three things to really help you out (in this order): 1. Pineapple juice (one glass alone carries you through a whole set) 2. Strawberry juice 3. Honey (raw, not mixed in tea or something)
  21. Add a lifting bridge to your list of issues.
  22. I've already seen some on Reverb. Some of the Gibson stock photos on their site are also incorrect, as they show prototypes rather than the actual product.
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