Post by Bill h on Oct 11, 2019 17:47:33 GMT
Well, they opened up a new guitar center in anchorage a couple months ago and my wife and I drove in to check it out. Secure in the fact that I would never buy another guitar (Colin) i went in confident I would come out with nothing more then a peddle (shopping delay pedals) and maybe a set of strings and a few picks. I wasn’t in there 10 minutes before I became fixated on this wine red 2019 Gibson studio.
The guitar was beautiful with the nitro finish and what caught my eye was the binding on the neck, something you wouldn’t see on earlier studios. I test drove it and the set-up on it was perfect, that was unusual for an out of the box Gibson as well, at least in my experience. It had 2 push-pull pots on it that gave the guitar a more of a fender type tone but had the rich Gibson lp tone otherwise.
I put it back on the wall and tried not to look at it as I wandered over to look at delay pedals. I could almost here it calling me as I sat there playing with pedals.
Long story short, I bought it. It was priced at 1499, and I got a military discount that knocked it down and they took another 50 off because linette wound up buying some stuff. In the end I paid 1300. I needed another guitar like I needed a hole in the head, that said, I think I’ll keep it. It plays and sounds like a dream and the pull pots are an extremely useful dimension. There was a time you could snag a new studio for 600-700 bucks so it was great to see an increase in quality to go with the price, speaking on the 2019’s anyway. I’ll try to post a pic tonight, if I can get my photobucket to work.
The guitar was beautiful with the nitro finish and what caught my eye was the binding on the neck, something you wouldn’t see on earlier studios. I test drove it and the set-up on it was perfect, that was unusual for an out of the box Gibson as well, at least in my experience. It had 2 push-pull pots on it that gave the guitar a more of a fender type tone but had the rich Gibson lp tone otherwise.
I put it back on the wall and tried not to look at it as I wandered over to look at delay pedals. I could almost here it calling me as I sat there playing with pedals.
Long story short, I bought it. It was priced at 1499, and I got a military discount that knocked it down and they took another 50 off because linette wound up buying some stuff. In the end I paid 1300. I needed another guitar like I needed a hole in the head, that said, I think I’ll keep it. It plays and sounds like a dream and the pull pots are an extremely useful dimension. There was a time you could snag a new studio for 600-700 bucks so it was great to see an increase in quality to go with the price, speaking on the 2019’s anyway. I’ll try to post a pic tonight, if I can get my photobucket to work.
