Gahr
Ambassador of Blues & Brews
I’m sorry for not posting much here these days, but life has a way of getting in the way of a lot of things…
Anyway, I FINALLY had the chance to buy what I consider my true dream guitar (disregarding vintage stuff, that is…). A couple of days ago I had a Gibson Custom Shop ‘64 Standard delivered to my door. I bought it from Thomann (really great German company) as a B-stock. It had been returned by a customer and because of it the price had been lowered significantly. I have no idea why it was returned, because it looks absolutely flawless to me. Came with a great setup right out of the box, even completely in tune. So far I have yet to find anything to complain about. It sounds great and looks fantastic.
I suppose the alnico 3 magnets in the pickups might not be period correct (I guess 2 or 5 would have been used in the pre T-tops ina a vintage ‘64?), but the tone is really nice. I have a set of vintage pre T-tops in another guitar, and I’m thinking about trying them out in this one, but I porbably won’t. I might flip one of the magnets, though, to get some Peter Green out of phase tones in the middle position. But I’ll leave it stock for a while and just enjoy it as is.
Struggling a bit with posting pics, btw. Any tips on making it easy?
Anyway, I FINALLY had the chance to buy what I consider my true dream guitar (disregarding vintage stuff, that is…). A couple of days ago I had a Gibson Custom Shop ‘64 Standard delivered to my door. I bought it from Thomann (really great German company) as a B-stock. It had been returned by a customer and because of it the price had been lowered significantly. I have no idea why it was returned, because it looks absolutely flawless to me. Came with a great setup right out of the box, even completely in tune. So far I have yet to find anything to complain about. It sounds great and looks fantastic.
I suppose the alnico 3 magnets in the pickups might not be period correct (I guess 2 or 5 would have been used in the pre T-tops ina a vintage ‘64?), but the tone is really nice. I have a set of vintage pre T-tops in another guitar, and I’m thinking about trying them out in this one, but I porbably won’t. I might flip one of the magnets, though, to get some Peter Green out of phase tones in the middle position. But I’ll leave it stock for a while and just enjoy it as is.
Struggling a bit with posting pics, btw. Any tips on making it easy?
