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The thing that I love about Gibson though is that back in the day when they were starting to figure out how to build an X braced flattop it was pretty much an experiment in chaos. The factory itself was a mish-mash of tools dies, and fixtures. Looking at just the L00 they were built with 12, 13 and 14 fret necks, kerfed or solid lining, the occasional raised fingerboard, and such. As the years progressed builds got heavier while finishes transitioned from hand rubbed, to hand rubbed with a final sprayed coat, to fully sprayed. The point is that Bozeman can take a ton of measurements and do as thorough an inspection of a given guitar as they want. Chances are though, it will not be a dead ringer for your guitar even if built the same year as that they were copying.
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I think that the Gibson "luthiers" use the bridgeplates for target practice during their lunch breaks. I initially thought it was part of their tooling procedure for locating the bridge or pin area, but how do you explain the fact that no two bridgeplates have the giant holes in the same location. The only reasonable explanation is that they're shooting them before installation.
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By the way, where do you live ?
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It has been ‘hot-rodded - the original guitar I bought was unplayable - destroyed by amateur twiddling and decorations. Neck set, new ebony fretboard, frets, new ebony bridge, bone nut, bone saddle, ebony head plate, new tuners.....etc. In the repair ‘package’ that my luthier did quite a few years ago now, was replacing the absolutely horrid original tuners that had been ‘fixed’ by previous owners, covered in Araldite???, with Kluson style replacement tuners from Gotoh? Just pure luxury compared to oldies. I really noticed tuning my poor old 1959 LG1 - next candidate desperate for better tuners! BluesKing777. |
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The Legends were ok. The thick, gloss finish was tackier to me than the thin VOS finishes used on the Vintage and Historic series. Is the ML using the exact same VOS finish? |
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According to the YouTube interview with Mr Murphy, the ML Gibsons use a completely different finish than the non-Aged Historics.
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In the spirit of sharing.... J-200 Murphy Lab vs. Standard...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMui...index=25&t=83s |
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