+1 on all of that. Most Gibson guitars have neck angle between 3 1/2 and 5 degrees.
Most Gibson guitars are completely adjustable so the player can make it his own.
That's the majority of cases. Most Gibson owners just play their guitars, and don't
ever take them apart or have any problems. Thousands of Gibson owners are in this category.
Gibson guitar owners never need to shield their guitars, because Gibson Humbucking pickups
are quiet (in the majority of cases).
Gibson ought to know better than to ship instruments that have any flaws to members of this
forum, or ETSG, or MLP. They ought to have someone in QC that makes sure that instruments that go to members of this forum are perfect in every way. Think of how much bad mouthing they have received from several of our members: Members who received a guitar with a pickup that wouldn't work, or who received a guitar whose pickups didn't sound like they did forty years ago, or who received a guitar with absolutely nothing right, and which had to be completely rebuilt in order to make any music.
That is nuts. Gibson has received way more bashing from our members than they need.
And it's the kind of articulate and specific bashing that really hurts a company.
Think of how many lurkers are out there reading all this, and buying Epiphones and PRS
and Fender and Gretsch, and Rickenbacker instead of Gibsons, because of all the negative
comments that pop up on a google search, like snipers in a spider hole.
Gibson ought to pay ME to be their liaison, and read these boards and make sure that
whatever guitar gets ordered by our members gets inspected twice and corrected before
it goes out. I read some post by a member who ordered a guitar from Sweetwater (one of my A-list emporia) and got one that wasn't playable. I mean WTF! Sweet water boasts in print that they inspect and set up each guitar they ship, using that as a sales attraction
...which it is. I would hold them to it, because it's a great concept IMHO.
So Sweetwater ought to pay ME too, because they don't need any negative commentary on these boards. Those posts last too long, and pop up too readily if people just search something like "Gibson QC" ...all those negative comments will be there for years, poisoning the minds of prospective Gibson customers. If they just paid me a reasonable amount of money (by Washington standards) I would set them straight, and make sure that I received all the guitars FIRST for testing and evaluation. I would make sure that the instruments actually work... and I live far enough from my neighbors that I could turn them up and make sure they function at band volume. I would be worth all the good money they heaped on me.
And I'd have a lot of fun with all the virgin guitars, Like the old Marquis, getting to check out
all the village girls before they got married (which turns out to be about as likely as me getting to have my way with all YOUR new guitars)... Ye aulde Droits de Segnieur seems now to be a myth about a really stupid idea.
e guitars with the good ones.Now them folks overseas makin guitars will either be caned or hung or somethin if they make mistakes so there geetars are alot more closer to specs.
