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Published on 06/02/14 at 07:04This is a Les Paul, and more traditional (ha, well, without laughing):
- Full Body
- Mahogany for the corp and the neck profile late 50's, that is to say, rather balèze down
- Maple top
- 3 position selector
- A volume and tone micro
But it is a 2014 edition, therefore, to make a guitar like a little different but still added:
- Micros 59 Tribute
- Buttons potentiometer with a better "grip"
- A 120th anniversary logo that I personally find quite distasteful, but ...
UTILIZATION
Violin:
The handle filled hand well. You must love. Personally, this is not what I prefer (at Gibson, I prefer the slim type for example), but once we got in the habit, it's nice to feel that we a timber in the palm.
Not being a fan of lightweight instruments, I find reasonable weight for a guitar of this type.
Original pulling rope is a little light for this type of scale (10-46) and I congratulated me (not long or more) of passage 10-52.
Finish:
The aesthetics of the guitar could be really great if the finishes were at the height of selected wood for the particular table (beautiful on my copy). In particular, I find the finish and binding cylinders really rough for an instrument of this price: the passage of the cutter is not binding réggulier and the thickness is not uniform. The binding is therefore sometimes "dug more" than the rest of the guitar, which is particularly unpleasant when it happens on the handle. Also, my copy had drips of varnish on the binding (orange on the cream, it shows, and it's ugly).
Fasteners straps had the game A little screwdriver was enough to solve the problem.
SOUNDS
The sounds were good, even very good indeed, in the few minutes of test store and the first hour of rehearsal. It was our honeymoon ... haaaa .... we were so good together ... we étreignions endless and we enlacions madly.
And she ruined everything! The neck pickup is set to produce a terribly muddy sound unworkable. "Fortunately", it only lasted a time as said micro finally had the decency to end our respective soufrances totally ceasing to function. When this was done, the acute micro already producing since long (too long) minutes sound from elsewhere (but not far enough) that specialists know as "super-crain crain beyond bearable ".
I put 1 for short fun times we had.
OVERALL OPINION
Back Store so. Attempted repair "ha, well it must be a massive problem, it happens." It is true, after all, why it bothers me, it happens, that's all.
Indeed, once the original wiring (approximate) and weld (also approximate) analysis, it appeared that thread was walking in an inappropriate place. Once this is arranged by the luthier shop ... Tindin! I give you Emile: hey ben, it still not work. Or rather, but all the same.
Re-return or rather, non-recovery in store. After re-examination, the verdict: there is a problem.
Gibson USA, in his incredible generosity, probably driven by a surge of commercial goodwill (and perhaps also because the instrument is supposed to benefit from the "Gibson Gold Warranty" which is, as we shall indeed, very very impressive ) then offers me THE solution to clean my eyes already filled with a legitimate admiration for the extraordinary quality of a proposed low price of € 2,149 instrument even more shine: wait weeks for a 59 tribute micro parts. Hey, yes, it is Gibson himself manages, and France, as Europe in general (the small country left China) is a priority.
Meanwhile, I can always hang my guitar on the wall and my whistle solos passing or, as is already the case for two weeks, leave this plaidir luthier shop and put myself in the Air Guitar.
The store offers me the resume against purchase order, since there is no other copy available. Without thrush, blackbird on food, necessity is Act and all these things, so I agreed to stay with an asset: € 2,000 outside and no guitar therefore, until recently the store receives an ES-339 beautiful.
I leave this review, knowing that only reflects my experience and hoping that such deceptions are exceptional. Unfortunately, I understand the legitimate doubts about it, having had troubles similar to Gibson 3 of this price this year.
- Full Body
- Mahogany for the corp and the neck profile late 50's, that is to say, rather balèze down
- Maple top
- 3 position selector
- A volume and tone micro
But it is a 2014 edition, therefore, to make a guitar like a little different but still added:
- Micros 59 Tribute
- Buttons potentiometer with a better "grip"
- A 120th anniversary logo that I personally find quite distasteful, but ...
UTILIZATION
Violin:
The handle filled hand well. You must love. Personally, this is not what I prefer (at Gibson, I prefer the slim type for example), but once we got in the habit, it's nice to feel that we a timber in the palm.
Not being a fan of lightweight instruments, I find reasonable weight for a guitar of this type.
Original pulling rope is a little light for this type of scale (10-46) and I congratulated me (not long or more) of passage 10-52.
Finish:
The aesthetics of the guitar could be really great if the finishes were at the height of selected wood for the particular table (beautiful on my copy). In particular, I find the finish and binding cylinders really rough for an instrument of this price: the passage of the cutter is not binding réggulier and the thickness is not uniform. The binding is therefore sometimes "dug more" than the rest of the guitar, which is particularly unpleasant when it happens on the handle. Also, my copy had drips of varnish on the binding (orange on the cream, it shows, and it's ugly).
Fasteners straps had the game A little screwdriver was enough to solve the problem.
SOUNDS
The sounds were good, even very good indeed, in the few minutes of test store and the first hour of rehearsal. It was our honeymoon ... haaaa .... we were so good together ... we étreignions endless and we enlacions madly.
And she ruined everything! The neck pickup is set to produce a terribly muddy sound unworkable. "Fortunately", it only lasted a time as said micro finally had the decency to end our respective soufrances totally ceasing to function. When this was done, the acute micro already producing since long (too long) minutes sound from elsewhere (but not far enough) that specialists know as "super-crain crain beyond bearable ".
I put 1 for short fun times we had.
OVERALL OPINION
Back Store so. Attempted repair "ha, well it must be a massive problem, it happens." It is true, after all, why it bothers me, it happens, that's all.
Indeed, once the original wiring (approximate) and weld (also approximate) analysis, it appeared that thread was walking in an inappropriate place. Once this is arranged by the luthier shop ... Tindin! I give you Emile: hey ben, it still not work. Or rather, but all the same.
Re-return or rather, non-recovery in store. After re-examination, the verdict: there is a problem.
Gibson USA, in his incredible generosity, probably driven by a surge of commercial goodwill (and perhaps also because the instrument is supposed to benefit from the "Gibson Gold Warranty" which is, as we shall indeed, very very impressive ) then offers me THE solution to clean my eyes already filled with a legitimate admiration for the extraordinary quality of a proposed low price of € 2,149 instrument even more shine: wait weeks for a 59 tribute micro parts. Hey, yes, it is Gibson himself manages, and France, as Europe in general (the small country left China) is a priority.
Meanwhile, I can always hang my guitar on the wall and my whistle solos passing or, as is already the case for two weeks, leave this plaidir luthier shop and put myself in the Air Guitar.
The store offers me the resume against purchase order, since there is no other copy available. Without thrush, blackbird on food, necessity is Act and all these things, so I agreed to stay with an asset: € 2,000 outside and no guitar therefore, until recently the store receives an ES-339 beautiful.
I leave this review, knowing that only reflects my experience and hoping that such deceptions are exceptional. Unfortunately, I understand the legitimate doubts about it, having had troubles similar to Gibson 3 of this price this year.