Ok... I was at our favorite store a month ago looking at Gibson Les Paul Classic guitars. I have been toying with the idea of picking one up (after selling some gear) but I'm not sure...
Anyway... as I was a playing a gold top I noticed that in the cutaway there was a place where the binding stopped and the maple cap could be seen for about 1/8 of an inch, and then the mahogany started. Seemed odd to me. Almost like the binding was too shallow to cover the entire cap in that one place. You couldn't feel a ridge or anything, just saw a sliver of the cap.
Ok, so I put that one back and grab a cherryburst. Same thing.
I went and looked at ALL the Classics and Standards and they had the same thing. The Customs and Supremes did not. Nor did the Epis that I looked at (three).
Has anyone ever seen this? Is this a design flaw? Manufacturing flaw?
I looked at my buddy's Les Paul Classic from 1995 and his did NOT have this issue. Just curious.
-=- Steve
"If the moon were made of ribs, would you eat it?"
Thats a common issue with the cheaper (yeh, right!) Gibsons. A lot of them have flaws in the binding. I suppose you clould live with that... But it if it sounds nice, dude! Youll get used to the flaws, and youd stop noticing!
Regards,
Leo
"No pain No gain!"- The Scorpions
