nuclearfishin
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What's the difference in fret wire between a 99 R9 and a 03 R8? Which one is more historically accurate?
What's the difference in fret wire between a 99 R9 and a 03 R8? Which one is more historically accurate?
What's the difference in fret wire between a 99 R9 and a 03 R8? Which one is more historically accurate?
The '99 will have the same taller and more narrow wire like the std. production guitars. That wire was used thru 2000. Then in 2001 the Custom Shop switched to the more accurate wire that they are still using in '09. But for all of the years of the reissues, no model in the same year would have different wire. So a '99 and a 2003 WOULD have different size fretwire.
That makes sense, my 99 has much taller fretwire than my 2003. I like them both, I was just curious if one was more accurate than the other. Back in 1958 and 1959, did Gibson use the same size fretwire between those two years?