Look at what I just found on Reverb.com https://reverb.com/item/49687813-gibson-check-list-1997-les-paul I hope this helps a little bit and if I see another I will gladly post it ! I just found another one https://reverb.com/item/49687286-gibson-warranty-papers-checklist-2006-61-sg ( I would sure love to see the photos of the Les Paul please )
I tried to gently coax him to post photos which has not happened . I mean the paper is nice with the case candy and such but it's all about the goods , not apiece of paper , which is valuable in a time of selling . Myself , after I have purchased all of my Custom Shop beauty's I check it out once I unpack and then it goes directly into the case pocket and not seen again as the cases are in one room and the herd is in the big room all on there stands . Anyway and a big and is that during that time period such a document was used at least part of it was used for the mail in warranty , which now you just go on Gibson .com to register your new instrument and make sure you have your factory protection / warranty . What the heck else is that document for anyway ? Also as I am on a roll now anyway , when was the last time anyone on our wonderful Forum ( Thanks Mike S) asked a question in regards to this document ? ( I hope I am being PC correct and not offending )
Thanks for posting those links. I'm actually looking for Historic Art Custom Shop Ones but those ones do show that they're usually filled out with black ink. The one I/m talking about was done with blue ink and the initials were SM. I haven't seen one other with those characteristics. It's probably real but it does seem odd that I can't find one other like it. About the pics, it's somebody else's guitar and they emailed me pics. They might not want to me to post them in forums. Nothing special about it to see anyway, just looks like any other Snakepit. There is one thing weird though, it has a Slash signature on it and the top part of the S is missing. I can't find any other example of his sig that's like that. I'll show you that at least. Looks very different from the known real one below it huh?
Yeah, seems unlikely Slash would forget to put the top half of the S on. How could a faker make such an obvious error though? Maybe Slash was drunk, he did drink a lot in those days, might have forget how to write his own name.
I think the problem you would have with UHMW would be that "it only comes in one color: ugly". Yes it can be made in colors, but not something that would be attractive for inlays and that is one of the "properties" needed for inlays. UHMW has been available commercially for over 25 years and I've never seen a decorative application for it.
Been around longer than that. Also much heavier by volume than most wood used for guitar building.
What's wrong with white, or brown like the wood? Is a guitar neck supposed to be attractive to look at or functional? Why would you not want the lowest abrasion and friction material available? I Googled it and found lots of colors. I'm not talking about decorative inlays anyway, I mean the entire neck except for about 1/4" of wood on each side and where the fret wires get installed, basically a bunch of rectangles between every fret. Anyway, just a thought, maybe people don't like low abrasion and low friction necks, maybe they like them to wear down and tire their fingers out.
I want to know about this top carve thing. What IS a 59 top carve? Cause as far as I know? Gibson used a 59 to scan and use that during the CNC process. So which 59 are we talking about here for top carve?
Same with the 61 reissue's, they say they 3D scanned them but here in the video u can see the models are not 100% the same with the taper of the horn, neck angle... i'm not mad of it but i want to know why?
Yes, vis a vis my friends at Custom Shop who were there at the time...whaddaya got?
I agree, that should not be happening but with Covid I think it has been difficult getting into a rhythm. No excuse though. We did just get a new Customer Service director who is doing a great job with all that he inherited. I would suggest emailing service AT gibson.com again and for the subject line, put "THIRD REQUEST - Replacement ABR-1 Posts for New Custom Shop Purchase." And have the previous queries/exchanges pasted below the requests. I'm very sorry that you have been having so much trouble.
Yes it's on the list...we are planning to do a bit of a pickup re-launch/re-focus in Fall. I think the new pickups are killer (we developed them for the Clapton Firebird I) but we did not get complains with the Ceramic version...we made the change simply because the original was Alnico. I'm sure the Ceramics are also great.
Pretty easy to fake one of those 90s pre-pack checklists as sometimes they were not filled out at all. But much harder to make a convincing fake Custom Shop guitar. When in doubt the Customer Service team can look up and verify serial numbers from that era.