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I think it looks even better in these pictures. Very, very nice. I've never heard the Whole Lotta Humbuckers but I'm a fan of SD stuff in general.

Doesn't he realize he's going to damage the cabinet by doing that??

Very cute pup!

That is a beautiful guitar.

Really, I have no idea how it got this way!!??

Very nice! She's a sexy little thing. I love parlor acoustics.

I never really noticed them being off on my LPs. Is it other models? I think mine look pretty much parallel to the strings. R0: '57: '17 USA Tribute T

Those would each cost about 50 bucks if Tom Murphy did them for you.

The string path to the tuners is just another potential force, or set of forces on the string. It's the same idea as the discussion we had about the break angle at the bridge. Obviously, the string has to be in firm contact at each end (the nut and the bridge), hence the need for a break angle, or something to fix the string in place like a Floyd Rose system. Guitars with a straight string path have just one break angle at the nut and guitars with an angled path have at least two. If you cut the nut slot at an angle you can minimize it but there are still additional forces on the string in the nut. That's always going to make those strings a little more fussy to tune. But, if you have a properly cut nut and keep it clean and lubed it's not a big deal.

Done. Those are some very nice pieces of wood.

I think this is probably correct. I haven't had any problems with my Gibson LP nuts, which have all been PLEK'd. But, my recent experience with Warmoth is a little different but may be relevant. Both of the nuts on my Warmoth's needed some hand dressing. They cut their nuts by CNC which is basically what PLEK is. It cuts them well as far as width and depth but they still need some cleaning up, if you will. I suspect that maybe when Gibson first started PLEK'ing maybe they didn't think that was necessary.

What a loser. Sad.

That's a beautiful guitar. I'd leave the p-g on and keep it.

Man, that is one sweet looking LP.

Congratulations on that beauty!

You're aware there are different date formats in use ... and jokes?

It was built in the future? That's great news. Now you still have time to stop them from scratching it!

And Gibson responds: https://www.musicradar.com/news/gibson-shifts-from-confrontation-to-collaboration-in-copycat-row

I agree completely, very good description. I also agree that this is not the greatest Skynyrd tune, but, the original is way better. How old are these co-workers of yours?

Most likely what's happening is that when they're tightening that screw they're just pushing it down, pressing the nut against the top to hold it in place while tightening rather than using a wrench. They probably figure it doesn't matter since it's being sold with the guard mounted. I can see that logic, but a lot of people take them off,or are just bothered by the damage. It seems very easy to solve. If they're under too much time pressure, or too lazy to use a wrench or something to protect the top, then just sell them with the pick guard off. Easy.

I'm a pretty big defender of Gibson in most cases. I think a lot of the QC complaints you see are BS. However, this issue seems to be a real problem. I've seen a bunch of examples of these. I'm a pick guard on kinda guy, but it would still bother me a lot knowing it's damaged. Gibson needs to fix this. Although, I think for your dealer to say they are "all" like that is a bit of an overstatement because they don't want you to send it back.

And such is the affliction.

Yes, Shifu. But many spouses have never received a satisfactory answer to that question.