BitchPudding wrote:That blue really complements Skeletors entire color scheme really well haha.
That's what I thought after a couple days of looking at it stickerless - "This needs Skeletor" so I went shopping for decent decals that will live through guitarring!
Thats one of the new Gibsons right? what do you think of it?
Yea, I ordered it day one as a "Scratch and dent" from Sweetwater (either they opening it for photos or Gibson packing it put a tiny scratch on the rear of the headstock that all but buffed out immediately) for a hundred bucks off - and it was the best looking and lightest of the lot to boot.
Very, very happy after almost a month. I put on robotuners (yea, I'm still that guy) and speed knobs (which I do on anything that doesn't require me to change pots, ala not cheaper Jaguars) - it needs nothing. Fretwork is the same "ridiculously good" I've come to expect on my post-2014 Gibsons, intonation was better than I expected even out of the box (compensated bridge from the factory), and it snarls like a beast.
The only thing I can advise is it's the 'no filler' lower-end Gibson "faded"-type finish - it looks decent, feels acceptable, but it's not the glossy, "where's the wood" feel of my other three by a long shot. But at under a grand, and being a "student model" initially...it fits.
The other thing that absolutely kills me is that it's the nicest piece of rosewood I've seen on a modern guitar - hell, most of the photos I've seen are up to a standard that makes the Fender stuff at twice the price (when they deign to have it these days...) look cheap.
10/10 given what it is!