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I've already gone through a horror show taking this into one of my local shops. I had them do a simple set-up to see if they could handle getting rid of a little buzz I was experiencing. I show up to pick my beloved up and they tell me they switched out the nut without even letting me know. The guitar was bone stock, same way it rolled out of Kalamazoo in 1981. It's a gibson les paul artisan, 2 pu model in tobacco burst. Anywho, they replaced the stock bone nut with a graphite nut, not because this was the apprentice's professional opinion, not because I was notified and asked which material I would like, because the shop charges less money for the graphite than the bone and clearly thought I would cheap out. Furious as I was over that they have done nothing more to the actual set-up of the guitar as to when I gave it to them because I am still experiencing buzz in the same spots I had been. Complete waste of my time and money to learn a hard lesson that these guys are real f*%&^@ tools.
Basically now I've decided that my hometown of Edmonton is not the kind of place I can get real work done to a real important guitar to me. I am need of a re-fret and I am interested in the real deal. I'm certainly not sending it to Gibson, but I'm thinking some place on the west coast of the states might be the place to have it done. Somewhere very reputable, somewhere that really cares, somewhere that isn't too cheap but isn't stupid expensive for what you get. I'm not sure whether or not I'd like the plek done... That being said I say it because of companys like Gibson butchering that shit just to throw the sticker on the pick-guard. I would not be opposed to having it done, but it had better be by someone who gives a shit about proving Gibsons methods wrong and that will do a mighty fine job. I haven't fully decided if I'd like to keep the binding nibs in tact but I find myself leaning towards just paying extra to do so. I'm not sold on it but I just can't explain it, this is has been and will be my main guitar and the aesthetics of it are very important to me. It's been the guitar I've loved to look at and play for a while and I knd of like it exactly the way it is.
Any input from anyone here would be greatly, greatly appreciated. A referral to a website or company or great luthier would be awesome! Thank-you for reading folks, have a good-one!
I've already gone through a horror show taking this into one of my local shops. I had them do a simple set-up to see if they could handle getting rid of a little buzz I was experiencing. I show up to pick my beloved up and they tell me they switched out the nut without even letting me know. The guitar was bone stock, same way it rolled out of Kalamazoo in 1981. It's a gibson les paul artisan, 2 pu model in tobacco burst. Anywho, they replaced the stock bone nut with a graphite nut, not because this was the apprentice's professional opinion, not because I was notified and asked which material I would like, because the shop charges less money for the graphite than the bone and clearly thought I would cheap out. Furious as I was over that they have done nothing more to the actual set-up of the guitar as to when I gave it to them because I am still experiencing buzz in the same spots I had been. Complete waste of my time and money to learn a hard lesson that these guys are real f*%&^@ tools.
Basically now I've decided that my hometown of Edmonton is not the kind of place I can get real work done to a real important guitar to me. I am need of a re-fret and I am interested in the real deal. I'm certainly not sending it to Gibson, but I'm thinking some place on the west coast of the states might be the place to have it done. Somewhere very reputable, somewhere that really cares, somewhere that isn't too cheap but isn't stupid expensive for what you get. I'm not sure whether or not I'd like the plek done... That being said I say it because of companys like Gibson butchering that shit just to throw the sticker on the pick-guard. I would not be opposed to having it done, but it had better be by someone who gives a shit about proving Gibsons methods wrong and that will do a mighty fine job. I haven't fully decided if I'd like to keep the binding nibs in tact but I find myself leaning towards just paying extra to do so. I'm not sold on it but I just can't explain it, this is has been and will be my main guitar and the aesthetics of it are very important to me. It's been the guitar I've loved to look at and play for a while and I knd of like it exactly the way it is.
Any input from anyone here would be greatly, greatly appreciated. A referral to a website or company or great luthier would be awesome! Thank-you for reading folks, have a good-one!
