The golden age of guitar making is over people!

[formula73]

The problem with this is, TGWIF actually has the knowledge about of things, he's just a little too pushy about it sometimes. Jerry drinks too much and buys shipping containers.

Bwahahahahahaha! True on that.

For all I rag on TGWIF and Blueman, they DO know their **** and are more than free with their knowledge. Respect where respect is due.

[Mr 9finger]

Hareek and Inkstained. Go back and reread .4 in my first post. Don't take something I posted 2 pages ago out of context and try to use it against me here. I said idiot that comment only pertaining to the use of new woods. No where have I said or will you ever hear me say or imply that someone is an idiot because they don't agree with my opinion. Just won't happen. However the use of new woods is a FACT. It's been slowly popping up here there in imports...Agathis anyone? Gibson started doing it and the fanboys had a freaking coronary. Bob Taylor has pretty much all but said it in his video about Ebony. Someone brought sustainable lumber sources. OK, I'll bite on that. Considering it takes decades to grow a tree to usable size for guitar woods, and the amount they cut down every year, I don't buy it. They might be keeping that species of wood from going extinct, but they aren't sustaining anything for the guitar industry.

Yep, some of the stuff I touched on could have very easily went down a political road. It wasn't biased. It's barely arguable, but I stated earlier I was leaving it alone to not go that route.

To quote Eddie Murphy "Stevie Wonder is a musical genius. That **** ain't funny mother ****er".

[Inkstained]

9fingers, I don't have a problem w/ non-traditional woods or even with Gibby (although I think bridges pickups should work; I'm strange that way). I hope to own a good Gibson someday.

But if you want a professional-quality instrument, and if you're willing to look for a Japanese- or Mexican-made instrument, this really is a golden age. Even U.S. prices are comparable to the '50s and early '60s, adjusted for inflation.

[Mr 9finger]

It actually ended up being the push pull pot for the volume on the bridge pickup. The pickup itself is fine. Sounds like ass lol, but works fine. I had some 500k long shaft pots around. It took longer for the iron to heat up than it did to put the new pot in.

Should it have happened. Probably not. But it's a pot. I've gotten bad pots new out of the box. CTS and Alpha brand. It did work intermittently, so it very well may have been fine when it went through QC. It went out on me, I played it again the next day and it worked, then went out again.

I can't be to mad at Gibson, had I lived closer to a repair center, it would have been done free of charge. I don't, so I was going to have to pay to ship it back to Gibson. I had the pot and the know how to change it, so at that point, it wasn't worth the money ship it back in. Especially when I knew at some point, it was going to get new pickups and pots anyway.