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I have a J45 and J185 that I bought in the early 90's when Gibson moved to Bozeman. The QC is good. They sound like Gibson stuff. Awesome. I also have 3 Martins. The warranty imo is worth it's weight in gold on Martin stuff. I wouldn't give you a plugged nickle for any Gibson warranty. So look for a good one and hope for the best. If you buy a new one it takes a bit of time to season up too. You'll know in a year or so what ya have.

oh and the Les Paul MF sent me was like this. I can't stand gold hardware

I like the Wine Red finish....I'm hoping it's a little darker than the picture with flash shows.....but wine red, gold top and vintage sunburst are my favorite LP finishes. Josh I was just wondering if you were around today? I have a lil story for ya, since you like wine red Les Pauls. I ordered and SG Classic and was not happy with it, the wood grain patterns were bad and you could see and basic mismatch of the wood. I have also owned a SG standard since 1980 and the wood is prefect, so the classic end up looking like scrap wood Gibson should have tossed. So I sent if back and what MF sent me the next time around was a Les Paul Studio in wine red with gold hardware. I was actually pissed, even though it cost more money and no body would have known if I kept it. Turns out Gibson does even do there own inventory work, but a company is hired to do it for em. They clowns jsut stuck it in a wrong shipping box. I end up sending that back in the hope of getting a decent SG classic.The clowns at MF send me back the one I had in the first place ( wrote down the serial number and the crappy wood grain pattern look very familiar to say the least). Anyway I finally got a decent SG Classic, with P90's I know you dig photos, so here my 1980 SG standard and the Classic with the P90's. My 1982 LP Gold top standard. If you look at the SG Standard pic, notice the slightly larger head stock and all the out put jack is mounted on the side. Not normal for an SG, but actually better.

Hey guys, About 3 months ago, I bought a Martin OM-28 John Mayer from the original owner off eBay. When I got the guitar I inspected it thoroughly and found it to be in close to immaculate condition. For being 5 years old and played, there was only one dent the size of a pencil tip in the top and the rest of the guitar was mint. About a month ago I noticed a bubble near the third fret on the neck of the guitar. The bubble got bigger and with a little pressure the finish flaked right off. Since then, the air bubbles have spread down the neck and the finish looks like it will inevitably continue to flake off. From all the research I've been able to, it appears this is actually the result of an error made when the guitar was finished, the result of some contamination under the finish. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm assuming I will have to take the guitar to a luthier, who will have to strip the remaining finish off the neck, and re-finish it. I'm also assuming my warranty is void since I am the second owner. Any input or advice is greatly appreciated since I've never had to deal with this and am a little frustrated since it's my dream guitar and I'm already having problems. Thanks you guys! -Jeff Ya you get no warranty with a used Martin, period. The problem I think you have is the finish that is fretboard sides is now starting to lift a bit. All my acoustic have some of this, both Gibson and Martins. It won't effect it. The thing is this is a strange area where the unfinsihed top part of the fret board mets the finished side of the fret boards and over time and over the season the fretbord expands ever so slightly with hummidity and temp changes. I take kick ass care of my guitars and like I said all of em have some of the finish that lifted off, or is lifting off. So guitars I have had for 20 yeas with out so much as a ding in em and it's still and issue. Guitars were ment to be played. No with out a warranty, if you ever need a neck reset it's gonna cost ya a nice hunk of change. Martin covered my mC 28 100% and even kicked in for a new bridge and saddle at my request. There warranty is so good, I turned around and bought 2 more Martins. I had the warranty work done by a local authorized luthier here in town.

I'm having trouble decoding the serial number on my dobro. i'm wondering the year. d5 073 96. Its a d style, wood body. Some codes i've seen say the last 2 are year digits, but the guy i bought it from said he bought it new in the 80s. This serial number doesnt conform to the 80s code either. Any help is appreciated. I'm pretty sure the 96 is the year it was made. the 073 is the 73 one made in the D5 series. 1-800 4 GIBSON can confirm this. Customer service is open 24/7. This one will be easy if it's a 96 model, Gibson bought OMI in about 93-94 OMI guitars the last letter was either a D=wood, B=metal, H=Hounddog, or P=solid peghead First letters are style. numerals in center are instrument ranking. yy is last two digits of year year. So yours is a D5 series, the 73rd one made for that year of 1996. I think the guy is lying to ya and a 5 in the D5 might even be a coded model #