Guidance on buying a Historic...
Very simple ... play it first. :ganz
Guidance on buying a Historic...
Very simple ... play it first. :ganz
So as long as the neck is good don’t worry about if the fretboard is laminated?Whatever you do, check the neck for a functioning truss rod/excessive underbow & overbow/lateral twists/excessive humps.
I wouldn't take even the best sounding guitar in the world if it displayed any combination of those problems above.
Techs and other obsessive folks (like me ) will understand.
Depending on the degree, the problems can be totally solved, or mitigated, or you will have to live with some, even with a refret and a full-plane job.
And as much as I love the process of the refret, I'm not thinking of it when I buy a guitar like a recent historic.
As long as it passed the neck test, I've never really run into a bad sounding Gibson historic in all the ones I've played.
Some are more memorable than others, but it was rarely due to the tone.
Now my main one is a TH58 which I've worn down the frets on, but it doesn't necessarily sound better than historics I've had in the past.
I do like it the most, but again, tone isn't the main reason why I like it above other previous historics.
I could be deaf though, so that is my disclaimer
So as long as the neck is good don’t worry about if the fretboard is laminated?
So as long as the neck is good don’t worry about if the fretboard is laminated?