troyguitar
Well-Known Member
In honor of George Washington, I went out on the shitty snowy roads (schools and a lot of other stuff were closed yesterday) and spent a bunch of money at Guitar Center! 
What did I buy? A sure favorite of everyone here, a Gibson!
Yep, I bought a USA Gibson from Guitar Center. But there's more...
it only has one pickup!
and a bridge with fixed intonation!
pics first, story later
I went in there looking to maybe buy a decent beater guitar to leave at our rehearsal space instead of my RR1, if they had anything worth buying. Played a couple of dozen guitars from $99 Epiphones to $700 stuff from Ibanez/Schecter/Fender/PRS SE and was about to go home. Then, on my way out, I spotted some Gibsons were on sale for only $599. They were a pair of ugly looking LP Juniors, but with humbuckers instead of P90's. I figured what the hell and picked one up.
It literally blew away everything else I tried under $1000. Felt great, sounded great but still pretty bland/ugly looking so I kept jamming away. The main competition was between the Gibson and a pair of PRS SE's: a white Singlecut marked at $479 before the 15% coupon and an amber Custom 24 at the regular $664 before the coupon. They both looked way better than the Gibson, had better upper fret access, and were much more versatile in that they had neck pickups - but they just didn't feel or sound as good. I almost went with the white singlecut as it was the cheapest and I love white guitars, but the tiny frets made it hard to play. So, after comparing everything I went with the boring looking but awesome playing Gibson.
Total price: $510 + tax for a new-in-box one from the back (which I took out and played to make sure it at least matched the floor demo - it did)
It only came with a Gibson USA gig bag instead of a case, so I'll have to pick one up eventually but I still think the guitar was a steal.
It's a GC-exclusive model which just came out this weekend, so specs are a little fuzzy but there are some cool things about it:
Mahogany neck and body (mine appears to be 2-piece, not 4+ like I've heard stories about)
Vulcanized MAPLE fretboard
Gibson 498T pickup with push-pull coil tap
neck profile somewhere between the fat 50's and slim 60's
thin matte finish, can see the wood grain in many areas
Kluson Deluxe tuners with silly small white plastic knobs
I know there's a lot of talk about Gibson's being over-priced and shit, but this series seems to be the exact opposite. Perhaps they're listening?
Now I'm going to fire it up for a few more minutes at home before I try to focus on homework for class tonight
tl;dr: I bought a cool Gibson for cheap.
edit: I'm also looking for mod ideas to make it look more fun! I'm currently thinking about chroming out the rest of the hardware (pickguard, pickup ring, control knobs, and tuner knobs). Thoughts/ideas?
What did I buy? A sure favorite of everyone here, a Gibson!
Yep, I bought a USA Gibson from Guitar Center. But there's more...
it only has one pickup!
and a bridge with fixed intonation!
pics first, story later
I went in there looking to maybe buy a decent beater guitar to leave at our rehearsal space instead of my RR1, if they had anything worth buying. Played a couple of dozen guitars from $99 Epiphones to $700 stuff from Ibanez/Schecter/Fender/PRS SE and was about to go home. Then, on my way out, I spotted some Gibsons were on sale for only $599. They were a pair of ugly looking LP Juniors, but with humbuckers instead of P90's. I figured what the hell and picked one up.
It literally blew away everything else I tried under $1000. Felt great, sounded great but still pretty bland/ugly looking so I kept jamming away. The main competition was between the Gibson and a pair of PRS SE's: a white Singlecut marked at $479 before the 15% coupon and an amber Custom 24 at the regular $664 before the coupon. They both looked way better than the Gibson, had better upper fret access, and were much more versatile in that they had neck pickups - but they just didn't feel or sound as good. I almost went with the white singlecut as it was the cheapest and I love white guitars, but the tiny frets made it hard to play. So, after comparing everything I went with the boring looking but awesome playing Gibson.
Total price: $510 + tax for a new-in-box one from the back (which I took out and played to make sure it at least matched the floor demo - it did)
It only came with a Gibson USA gig bag instead of a case, so I'll have to pick one up eventually but I still think the guitar was a steal.
It's a GC-exclusive model which just came out this weekend, so specs are a little fuzzy but there are some cool things about it:
Mahogany neck and body (mine appears to be 2-piece, not 4+ like I've heard stories about)
Vulcanized MAPLE fretboard
Gibson 498T pickup with push-pull coil tap
neck profile somewhere between the fat 50's and slim 60's
thin matte finish, can see the wood grain in many areas
Kluson Deluxe tuners with silly small white plastic knobs
I know there's a lot of talk about Gibson's being over-priced and shit, but this series seems to be the exact opposite. Perhaps they're listening?
Now I'm going to fire it up for a few more minutes at home before I try to focus on homework for class tonight
tl;dr: I bought a cool Gibson for cheap.
edit: I'm also looking for mod ideas to make it look more fun! I'm currently thinking about chroming out the rest of the hardware (pickguard, pickup ring, control knobs, and tuner knobs). Thoughts/ideas?
