Anybody seen this? Gibbo Les Paul causes cancer or explodes?

[Jeff Albertson]

My buddy got this e-mail from Gibson. I knew there was a reason old Slash can burn up a fretboard, but maybe he should start wearing a lead suit? The Les Paul Forum didn't seem to like it too much and pulled it.....whoa-ho-ho ha....hummmm, wonder why?

Hello Jon,

I should also mention the reason the fretboard inlay on the Les Paul Standard and Studio models has a yellow look is due to OSHA compliance. The pearloid is flammable and a carcinogen when sanded and cut and causes safety issues in manufacturing. Setting up a return authorization will most likely not be a warranty issue.

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-----Original Message-----

From: [email protected]

Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:11 PM

To: Customer Service

Subject: Les Paul Limited Standard

I recently received a Gibson Standard Les Paul Limited Edition guitar that I purchased from Guitar Center. It has the wrong parts. The fingerboard inlays are from a Classic model. They are green not pearl like the picture shows. I called them and they were not very helpful at all. They said I can send it back for a replacement or refund, which will cost me over $50 to ship. I would like a replacement but they told me that they cannot promise it will have the right parts since, Gibson ran out of the white inlays last year. They said if I arrange to send it back to Gibson it will be a warranty replacement. How do I go about arranging this? Thank you for the help.

Jon XXXXXXXX

It's totally original.

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[442w30]

I guess I am old and stupid. That email didn't make sense.
"Setting up a return authorization will most likely not be a warranty issue."

Is that supposed to mean if you return it, it's not a warranty issue?

Is it supposed to mean that they put carcinogenic/osha problem parts on Customs only?

Are they saying "tough sh!t" or "send it in"?

[Jeff Albertson]

That was the second reply. The first one said to send it in for a "warranty evaluation". I can tell you from experience. A "warranty evaluation" last about one day longer than the return period with the merchant. They pulled this crap on me a few times. I learned the hard way when I sent them a LP Standard that hade a horse-sheet fret job. Three upper frets weren't pounded into the board all the way. They just went ahead and leveled them off...You could still see the tang! I got it with a 45 day return policy. They kept it for over 40 days and then sent it back to me..."Our warranty team looked at it and they cannot find any problems"..sucker!

I get kick out of how they tried to punk the peeps by shipping a million or so Standards with green inlays. I got a Blue Standard Limited Edition with Yellow inlays...it looked ridiculous with white binding. Funny thing look at EVERY picture of a LP Standard..they ALL have white inlays.

No this is more of a pudd alert post....jerks!

[straycat]

My Nov 2006 faded Mahogony LP studio has the white trapazoid inlays they have a hint of yellow but are mostly white.They are very figured and quite beautiful.

[Newc]

My 93 Standard has yellowish inlays. Of course, I smoke, and have played it in bars

Then again, why is Gibson putting pearloid inlays on USA Gibsons, and not MOP?

[CharvelRocker]

My 93 Standard has yellowish inlays. Of course, I smoke, and have played it in bars

Then again, why is Gibson putting pearloid inlays on USA Gibsons, and not MOP?

They're Gibson :ROTF:

[Jeff Albertson]

They're Gibson :ROTF:

"Hello this is Gibson...we need to have some inlays made. Do you have a pot big enough to melt down a whole bunch of old car bumpers and milk jugs? Oh, and you could dump in some toxic waste too? What...hummm that's flamable? Maybe you could just add some asbestos to keep it from burning up?......HOW MUCH? Okay forget the asbestos. Oh...and we need them to look like 97 years old fungal toe nails."

Isn't that a kick in the nuts? No only is is super-cheapoidal plactsic. It looks retarded, is carcinogenic and ah....flammable.

[Ralph E.]

You have to wonder who's worse...

Gibson or .....

It's just all about the money anymore. Fuck the musicians.

[Newc]

Well, starving artists ARE starving.....

From a business standpoint, it's great. As a customer, it sucks. Both Gib and Jackson look at the money, because that's what pays the bills (or rather, pays the bills and leaves a whole lot left over to line the pockets with).

[Jeff Albertson]

You have to wonder who's worse...

Gibson or .....

It's just all about the money anymore. Fuck the musicians.

Gibson's like microsoft. Big, fat, ugly, content with pumping out crap because they've already spun the market. Damn, I'll admit 50% of what I got from Gibson is mainly for show or investment. Hell, the way they crank prices every year? It a beter investment than real estate!

Damn, years ago, they were still just as quirky quality but they weren't chargin an arm and a leg. Slash gonna get paid. Fer the luv of Floyd; which is why I started playing a charvel in the late 80's (like everyone else).

WTF...if I made a statement like what I'm giving out causes is hazardous, I would spend the next 6 year trying to alphabetize the first week of lawsuits.

Causes cancer, WTF?

[DonP]

Celluloid mostly causes cancer for the workers, sanding down the fretboards and creating dust that they breath in.

The reason people want it is because that's what the 50s LPs had, and people want their new LPs to look just like one from the 50s.

I don't give a shit about what Gibson is doing now, because I have the Les Pauls I'll be taking to the grave with me, and need no more. If I needed more, I'd buy used.