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Great guitar with some quality control issues
Great guitar with some qc issues. Arrived perfectly packed, gibson box inside thomann box. Gibson box has security tapes ensuring you are the first person opening the box.
Looks great made from two pieces mahogany back and 2 pieces plain maple cap, looks better than fancy flamed ones. Grains of the wood are really good while they are not bookmatched they don't look like two different trees. Great nitro varnish no scratches or imperfections just great and smells so good.
Setup was perfect just tuned and everything was ready to play. No fret buzz on any fret. Has pcb board electronics not hard wired, push pull switches works great, gives additional tonal options, knobs look wonderful. No problems on tuners, nut and bridge.
Now the small problems;
The fretboard has some varnish residue(at least 7 frets near a cm wide), can also be seen from factory photo, there are toolmarks on binding, has some scratches on the cavity cover plastics (they are not protected with a plastic film.) one of the cavity screws is not vertical to the body, ground wire's jacket has been stripped in one place(probably used pliers when inserting to pcb). truss rod cover has a small crack on white side(back), two of the jack plate screws were not fully screwed.
and finally a small tear (1cm) on the handle of the hardcase.
Maybe I am paying too much attention to detail but other brands don't have these small problems. With a little attention to detail those could have been fixed easily at factory. Don't mind having these on a epiphone but I do mind on a Gibson.
Looks great made from two pieces mahogany back and 2 pieces plain maple cap, looks better than fancy flamed ones. Grains of the wood are really good while they are not bookmatched they don't look like two different trees. Great nitro varnish no scratches or imperfections just great and smells so good.
Setup was perfect just tuned and everything was ready to play. No fret buzz on any fret. Has pcb board electronics not hard wired, push pull switches works great, gives additional tonal options, knobs look wonderful. No problems on tuners, nut and bridge.
Now the small problems;
The fretboard has some varnish residue(at least 7 frets near a cm wide), can also be seen from factory photo, there are toolmarks on binding, has some scratches on the cavity cover plastics (they are not protected with a plastic film.) one of the cavity screws is not vertical to the body, ground wire's jacket has been stripped in one place(probably used pliers when inserting to pcb). truss rod cover has a small crack on white side(back), two of the jack plate screws were not fully screwed.
and finally a small tear (1cm) on the handle of the hardcase.
Maybe I am paying too much attention to detail but other brands don't have these small problems. With a little attention to detail those could have been fixed easily at factory. Don't mind having these on a epiphone but I do mind on a Gibson.
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