Fretboard/binding knife-like cuts or cracks

[jc2000]

Nothing wrong with it..

 

[voggin]

I think guitars should

1. Play well
2. Sound good
3. Look nice, in a general way

If it does those three things, I'm not going to search for scratches.

I know, that probably makes me "Gibson's perfect customer", but life's too short to look at guitars with magnifying glasses.

 

[MikeySixStrings]

I had the same issues on a 2017 Classic I ordered. It was a beautiful guitar but I had to return it. The workmanship on the binding was just terrible. So I went to my local Guitar Center and checked out their stock and all of their Classics had absolutely jacked up binding work and tool marks along the fretboard like this. The Trads were a little better and the Standards looked fine. It's crazy that stuff like this gets past QC but apparently to get binding without tool marks you have to buy a pre-2015 model or it's luck of the draw.

 

[camini]

Since you bought it and it sounds fine, that's done. If it were mine - which I wished - I would file the edges of the binding (rolling if you may) with a razor blade, make it smooth and work away the scratches. The wood I would leave as such.
I rolled the bindings of both my Standards. Before that playing just hurt my thumb. Shame they don't take pride into finishing the good job started.

 

[Cjsinla]

Yeah, that binding work is pretty rough. I've never seen scratches like that. File marks, yes, but never knife marks like that. That salesman lied to make the sale.

 

[mudface]

Gibson will never equal that quality that PRS is sending out.

Well I wouldn't say "never", there will be a post Henry J some day.

 

[ttbit]

You could wait until you are old enough to have poor vision and not be able to see the flaws anymore. I see 100 more things with a digital camera picture than I do the naked eye. You could try to get more money off of it, if that would make you feel better. We pay a premium for the Gibson name, and that should give us premium quality, but... This gets brought up all the time here, unfortunately, but people who get real winners show up here all the time too. I agree with what is usually stated in that you are not going to get the consistency of PRS, but when you get a great sounding Les Paul, there is nothing else like it either. I am currently bonding with a used older Studio I bought that has been very used. You just never know... Again, I won't go taking zoomed digital pictures of it and just continue to be amazed at the sustain and resonance!!

I'll add that I really like my PRS S2, but it is not a Les Paul either.

 

[horns_up]

Unacceptable to me.

 

[Tanqueray]

Tool marks are there so you know it's hand made!