singlecoil Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Good afternoon I am looking at 3 separate Customshop SG # 066762 # 061472 and 3 054072 USED OBVIOUSLY MY QUESTION IS TWO-PART 1. Can anyone tell me when Gibson starting using the Plek Machine on Custom Shop SG's..Is there a way to find out based on the serial number 2. Two of these have Grover tuners One has Tulip Tuners. Whats the difference in quality or period correctness or what. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Admin Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 1) early 2006, though not right off the bat. my opinion is that only the 1st guitar you've listed would have been plek'ed. 2) no quality difference in the tuners...i believe the tulips is actually the more historically accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singlecoil Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Thanks admin is there a way to check with Customer service to find the info out?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Admin Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 not really...we just don't have any sort of records that say "on this exact date we started plek'ing "X" model"...sorry about that. the 1st guitar i'd say was definitely plek'ed...the 2nd one might have been, but there's no way for me to confirm...the 3rd one definitely not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singlecoil Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Admin:: I just read an article on Gibson.com site The article was devoted to pleking saying they were making records based on Serial #s and the plek setup info so if the guitar was returned for work they could make the specs the same as original.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Admin Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 that's news to me...and i can't find the article. can you post a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singlecoil Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 http://[url=http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Built%20by%20Humans,%20Perfected%20by/]http://www.gibson.com/en-us/ Gibson article on pleking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Admin Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 thanks for the link. i think that the reference in the last paragraph to a "file" refers back to Matt Klein's earlier mention of the information that the plek machine stores while doing its job, rather than a seperate log that tracks the same sort of info via an instrument's serial number. here's why i think that: 1) when guitars go into the plek machine, they have not yet been serialized 2) i am very involved in production tracking...if there was a serial number log related to plek'ing i would absolutely know about it. but to make a long story short, we started doing LPs in the plek in early January 2006, SGs came a bit later that month, and at this point we are plek'ing every guitar that comes though production here in Nashville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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