PSA: Gibson 2015 deals (again)

underdog

Sync;874806" said:

Well after a long session on the chat, Amazon can't do anything, return only. Then it's a waiting game for the refund.

That's crap and I guess means they've sold their 2015 stock of that model?

Cabicular

That looks like someone tried to sort the feet ends with a bastard file

goat

Hope they sort you quickly, they're usually pretty efficient.

You'd wonder how the hell obvious stuff like this gets through quality control. I had a 2015 Special with a fairly substantial pube under the nitro on the neck binding, curled right around the 7th fret marker. Every time I glanced down at the guitar it winked up at me.

Jookyjr

@goat said:

Hope they sort you quickly, they're usually pretty efficient.

You'd wonder how the hell obvious stuff like this gets through quality control. I had a 2015 Special with a fairly substantial pube under the nitro on the neck binding, curled right around the 7th fret marker. Every time I glanced down at the guitar it winked up at me.

Genuine LOL for that  

MatthewShreddery

PSA - pubic service announcement: gibson blowout etc

Fortheloveofguitar

There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

underdog

Fortheloveofguitar;874937" said:

There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

I think juniors and DCs are thin on the ground at the moment, or seemed to be when I was looking around

Fortheloveofguitar

underdog said:

Fortheloveofguitar;874937" said:

There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

I think juniors and DCs are thin on the ground at the moment, or seemed to be when I was looking around

Sorry i meant to say Les Pauls in general.  Still loads of classic, Standard, Less plus models. Amazon wont want these hanging around forever and they certainly wont shift them unless they practically give them away like yestrday  

underdog

Fortheloveofguitar;874957" said:

underdog said:

Fortheloveofguitar;874937" said:There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

I think juniors and DCs are thin on the ground at the moment, or seemed to be when I was looking around












Sorry i meant to say Les Pauls in general.  Still loads of classic, Standard, Less plus models. Amazon wont want these hanging around forever and they certainly wont shift them unless they practically give them away like yestrday  

Must say I'm impressed with the tuners and neck so could be tempted by one of the more expensive models.

eSully

I'm glad to hear overall reports are good barring the lp standard. Still waiting here, Amazon logistics don't give any indication of time of delivery. Good thing it isnt a nice day

Fortheloveofguitar

underdog said:

Fortheloveofguitar;874957" said:

underdog said:

Fortheloveofguitar;874937" said:There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

I think juniors and DCs are thin on the ground at the moment, or seemed to be when I was looking around












Sorry i meant to say Les Pauls in general.  Still loads of classic, Standard, Less plus models. Amazon wont want these hanging around forever and they certainly wont shift them unless they practically give them away like yestrday  

Must say I'm impressed with the tuners and neck so could be tempted by one of the more expensive models.

I mentioned in another thread that i played some in the U.S last week and although i could clearly feeling the difference in the neck immediately i could live with it no problem for certain styles of playing. I couldn't use it as a Zakk Wylde shred style less paul but for classic rock ala Slash it would be fine.

The tuners got my back up though as it simply wouldn't tune the top e despite the strings being stretched in properly but then again i didn't hang around long enough to try in manual mode. Either way its not a deal breaker.

The only thing i would keep an eye on is how soft that brass nut is as i've read more complaints about that than anything but Gibson will send you a new one made from a harder material but they are a little slow in sending it.

I still have my eye on a Less plus but they didn't come down futher in price like a few of us were hoping for 

underdog

Re: the tuners I liked the individual string tuning mode , so it does it one string at a time, seemed to tune it very quickly. It worked fine in normal mode, but when it done one string at a time I could hear they were in tune if that makes sense

mort

Fortheloveofguitar said:

underdog said:

Fortheloveofguitar;874937" said:

There's still a shit load of 2015 stock kicking around so i'd expect another big sale come Boxing Day.

I think juniors and DCs are thin on the ground at the moment, or seemed to be when I was looking around

Sorry i meant to say Les Pauls in general.  Still loads of classic, Standard, Less plus models. Amazon wont want these hanging around forever and they certainly wont shift them unless they practically give them away like yestrday  

Amazon don't have any les Paul standards left, the ones listed are all supplied by Richtone

Adamski

Mine will be with me on Tuesday as I chose the " don't give a shit" mail option, even though I'm a prime member. I wasn't going to become to receive it until Monday anyway so it worked out well.

NGD incoming and NAD too.

Wazmeister

Yep, mine (due yesterday) is suddenly delayed...hmmm

Bogwhoppit

I've heard of two [Gibson] orders cancelled by Amazon due to no stock, and none arriving in the near future. In other words Amazon had x amount in stock, but sold x+2, the unlucky two received an email yesterday. One a LPJ, the other a LP trad (I think).

It would be interesting if anyone else's Amazon order is cancelled for the same reason.

Sync

underdog;874819"

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That's crap and I guess means they've sold their 2015 stock of that model?

So I have checked out how it was packaged/sealed now with my local dealer and it looks as though it was straight from the factory/Gibson.

What I don't get, if that is the case, how I can make a flawless guitar (albeit oil finish) using my kitchen, my shed/workshop, 100 hours and £1.5ks worth of tools, yet Gibson with a multi million $$ facility and team of experienced luthiers can't.

meltedbuzzbox

Sync said:

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underdog;874819"

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That's crap and I guess means they've sold their 2015 stock of that model?

So I have checked out how it was packaged/sealed now with my local dealer and it looks as though it was straight from the factory/Gibson.

What I don't get, if that is the case, how I can make a flawless guitar (albeit oil finish) using my kitchen, my shed/workshop, 100 hours and £1.5ks worth of tools, yet Gibson with a multi million $$ facility and team of experienced luthiers can't.

my 2 have been fault free, the setup was a bit pants but thats a personal thing

from my hands on experience/ownership I really dont get half of the complaints

Moe_Zambeek

Gibson don't have luthiers, they have factory workers

dindude

Sync said:

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underdog;874819"

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That's crap and I guess means they've sold their 2015 stock of that model?

So I have checked out how it was packaged/sealed now with my local dealer and it looks as though it was straight from the factory/Gibson.

What I don't get, if that is the case, how I can make a flawless guitar (albeit oil finish) using my kitchen, my shed/workshop, 100 hours and £1.5ks worth of tools, yet Gibson with a multi million $$ facility and team of experienced luthiers can't.

The key here is probably the hours used, at minimum wage your guitar cost you near £800 in your own labour, you just had the option to give it for free. For Gibson to sell a USA guitar a rock bottom prices they will need to knock these out with 2 hours labour. Yes they have a modern plant with lots of automation but still human intervention is still required and it will lead to inconsistency at best - which is what this thread points to.