Street Lethal
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Hi, long time lurker first time poster.
I bought a new Epiphone Les Paul 1960 Tribute Plus from Sam Ash for a very good price. It was shipped directly from their distribution center in Florida to my house in another state. It arrived in a Epiphone box and it came with the case, although the top of the case has a small nick on it but that doesn't bother me.
I noticed that the guitar was missing the decals around the push pull tone knobs and the warranty card that's usually wrapped around the tuners. I checked the frets out and there's no marks on them at all. It doesn't appear to be played/used. The back has some circular scratches that appear to be from buffing at the factory. I've seen this before on new guitars.
The main thing is when I took the strings off to change them I took the pickups out to check that they're Gibson 57s. The bridge had the "Patent Applied For" sticker plus the white sticker with 57+ 860-31505-L 1/25/15 printed on it. The neck is missing the PAF sticker and only has the white sticker with 57 860-31504-L 1/21/15 printed on it. The base plate looks exactly like the bridge pickup's base plate. It looks like the correct nickel plate. I checked the wiring compartment, everything looked clean, nothing looked resoldered, and the pots are correct for this model.
I think the neck pickup is the real deal and it sounds like the real deal I'm just wondering if anybody has had this same issue with this particular model from Epiphone and with Gibson pickups.
The guitar plays great so I will most likely keep it, it was third one they sent me, the other two had bad fretwork and QC issues. This one has excellent fretwork.
Thanks.
I bought a new Epiphone Les Paul 1960 Tribute Plus from Sam Ash for a very good price. It was shipped directly from their distribution center in Florida to my house in another state. It arrived in a Epiphone box and it came with the case, although the top of the case has a small nick on it but that doesn't bother me.
I noticed that the guitar was missing the decals around the push pull tone knobs and the warranty card that's usually wrapped around the tuners. I checked the frets out and there's no marks on them at all. It doesn't appear to be played/used. The back has some circular scratches that appear to be from buffing at the factory. I've seen this before on new guitars.
The main thing is when I took the strings off to change them I took the pickups out to check that they're Gibson 57s. The bridge had the "Patent Applied For" sticker plus the white sticker with 57+ 860-31505-L 1/25/15 printed on it. The neck is missing the PAF sticker and only has the white sticker with 57 860-31504-L 1/21/15 printed on it. The base plate looks exactly like the bridge pickup's base plate. It looks like the correct nickel plate. I checked the wiring compartment, everything looked clean, nothing looked resoldered, and the pots are correct for this model.
I think the neck pickup is the real deal and it sounds like the real deal I'm just wondering if anybody has had this same issue with this particular model from Epiphone and with Gibson pickups.
The guitar plays great so I will most likely keep it, it was third one they sent me, the other two had bad fretwork and QC issues. This one has excellent fretwork.
Thanks.