VincentG
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On 9/19/2019 at 10:43 AM, Cabarone said:
I might be totally wrong, but the top photo looks like the finish is just wearing off...a whole lot more than I'd expect on a 4-year old...the second shot looks like nicks, as if something dug into it...weird...
I know, it does look weird. But I have no reason to lie about what kind of treatment the guitar was exposed to, I just came here to get advices and maybe be reassured as to wether I needed or not to do something about it. It does not prevent me in any way to play my guitar like I always did.
16 hours ago, jvi said:perhaps a call to Gibson could shed some light... there is good info here as well no doubt- J
I could try and contact them, absolutely! That's a good idea!
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9 hours ago, Buc McMaster said:
No offense intended, but that looks like abuse to my eye. There are narrow, tangled-looking lines apparently drawn in the finish, like you were wearing a ring or something that scarred it. Any kids in the house that might have mishandled the guitar? I've seen older instruments with chunks out of the neck finish like this one shows, generally from being leaned on a table/desk, an amplifier or some such as that. This does not look like a bad finish bubbling up or peeling......looks like abuse.
Abuse? No, really nothing like that. I have no kids, no pets, and I don’t even wear rings.
Now, my girlfriend would pick up the guitar sometimes to sing a tune and she may wear rings, as I have a couple of buddys that have played this guitar at my place to jam and they might wear a wedding ring... But I don’t know if any of that qualifies as abuse, and for 95% of the playtime the guitar had, it’s my ringeless hands.
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1 hour ago, kidblast said:
That does seem unusual for a 4 yr old guitar. I get the sticky thing tho.. they all will do that.
And if the stand wasn't safe for nitro, I'd expect the problem to be only where it was resting on the neck support, but not the whole neck like that.
Not sure what can be done tho other than bufffing smooth with 00000 steel wool or some sort of rubbing compound and I'm not so sure I'd do that either
maybe someone else can offer advice. you could try the acoustic guitar forum too, there's a number of builders and repair types that frequent the pages there.
Thank you very much for your time and advices!
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59 minutes ago, kidblast said:
I have Gibson guitars that are close to 25 years old, and the necks pretty much look like the did as new.
I wonder if something was touching the back of the neck for a long duration, or "often" where that interacted with the finish.
For example, Like a strap in the case that is lying on the same spot where the neck supports on the case are, so the guitar rests on the strap in the case instead of the case's material? That's kind of what that looks like in the first photo. the second, hard to say, looks like something knocked into the wood there.
No, It's been guitar stands almost the whole time. The back of the neck was only in contact with my hands, Capo and the microfiber clothes I would use to wipe it clean from sweat and gunk.
Especially the first year, the neck was sticky during spring and summer so I would wipe it clean energically everyday with a microfiber cloth. But that's it. The guitar only went into an Hiscox case maybe one time a year when flying away with it!
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I bought a brand new j-45 4 years ago. I have played it like maybe one hour everyday, sometimes more on holidays and during summer. Now after those few years, the back of my guitar neck looks like I ripped off the lacquer. Is it something I need to be concern about or that I should "fix" to avoid problems in the future?
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Hands down, Gibs, Austrian made Thomastik-Infeld Spectrums. They don't start out bright so there's no break-in tone changes, and they last a helluva long time. You get what you pay for @ 20 something dollars a set. I couldn't afford to string all my acoustics with them but always kept them on my '57 J45.
I was wondering. Do you play them in 11-52 lights or 12-54 Medium lights?
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Hello everybody!
I am a guitarist who has been playing for quite a long time, mostly singing along easy pop songs.
A year and a half ago I decided to start taking the guitar seriously and have been working hard on blues standard from the forties and fifties.
After a whole year playing everyday a cheap Eastman i didn't like so much, I afforded a standard j-45 I had saved for.
I hate bright guitars and understood quite fast that a J-45 and a Guild M20 was what I was after.
The Guild will be mine when They will build them again in the US with a Nitro finish and all...
My favourite acoustic musician is Nick Drake and my goal is to be able to write songs in that particular style of his.
I started by playing with a thumb pick and long nails, but since I got the J-45 I play more and more with bare fingers at low volumes!
Gibson Acoustic Neck Lacquer problem?
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No problem mate!
Ok, that is very interesting. I do not care whatsoever what my guitar looks like and if it stills sounds and feels great in many years to come, then what happened isn't that important. Though I am a bit curious like you seems to be.
I have friends spending all their savings on vintage guitars in player grade just because they sound so good. The rest is a matter of taste I guess!