NGD • GLP

[robthemac]

early 00's standard? It's interesting that there's arm wear, but not fret wear. A rhythm player maybe. Lot's of April Sun in Cuba and Have You Ever Seen The Rain.

If Jim's fifty-cent piece has been wielded in anger, then expect disproportionate wear patterns.

[MiniForklift]

early 00's standard? It's interesting that there's arm wear, but not fret wear. A rhythm player maybe. Lot's of April Sun in Cuba and Have You Ever Seen The Rain.

If Jim's fifty-cent piece has been wielded in anger, then expect disproportionate wear patterns.

At this point in time, not a single pick mark on it. Unlike my Greco which now resembles a dartboard

[Zaulkin]

Soooo nice

[GrantB]

‘02 Standards with 50s neck are the top of the pile for non CS Gibson. They nailed it.

[jeremyb]

Aroused.

[MiniForklift]

Aroused.

You are permanently aroused so it doesn’t count

[MiniForklift]

‘02 Standards with 50s neck are the top of the pile for non CS Gibson. They nailed it.

Have to agree with you. Back to getting it right with regards to historic specs, smaller headstock, thinner binding, nicer tops… as you said they nailed it

[robthemac]

What's the neck like?

[MiniForklift]

What's the neck like?

As cliché as it sounds, probably lands in the '59 camp. Not as fat as a '58 but thicker than a '60's neck, it's nicely somewhere in the middle

[GrantB]

‘02 Standards with 50s neck are the top of the pile for non CS Gibson. They nailed it.

Have to agree with you. Back to getting it right with regards to historic specs, smaller headstock, thinner binding, nicer tops… as you said they nailed it

Don't forget the re-imagined (thanks Oleg) pickups. Those first gen BB's are the shizz, to my ears.

[MiniForklift]

Well I guess here is the reveal. FWIW I wanted to switch out the bridge to an ABR-1, that arrived yesterday but annoyingly it’s not a simple drop on. So I’ve now had to order a set of posts and thumbwheels

Nothing wrong with the current bridge, the saddles have been swapped out for graphite ones and the intonation is perfect. Anyway here is ‘25’, I named it that to remind me that I bought it in 2025 and I would have been 25 years old when it was made

[AiRdAd]

That top!!!

[jeremyb]

That top!!!

What he said!!

[hamo]

Filth

[GrantB]

DIBS!!!