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In the following years Gibson just messed with options and hardware to get 'closer' to a true vintage reissue, Hide glues, truss rod condoms, plastic colours, and started to introduce artificial ageing and collectors choice models.
neck profiles were all over the place, and there was the rosewood fiasco which had laminated fret boards, i think in 2012.
Before 2007, some details such as the inlays with rounded corners, and positions of knobs and tailpiece were not historically correct. Even now, the tailpiece on a historic is in the wrong place, maybe they are saving that detail for another year--if they get another year.
If i was looking, I would seriously consider that R8, for the price, and then the journey will begin. Really no comparison between the Historics and standards, which is where my own journey began.
I suspected that we were looking at the same guitar ... same price, specs, year, colour etc, but I’m picking that one up in the morning. Should be a nice companion to my R9.