Fret Nib Cracks on a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Gibson fret nibs can develop issues that can affect the playability of the guitar, especially on the high E string,
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This is the most tense cliff-hanger I've seen.
Which part of the video was the cliff hanger? I'd really like to know. This way I can think of ways to include more tense moments in future videos.
Kind of like when you're in the dentist chair, ready for fillings, and he gets up, puts on his jacket and goes home...
Easy fix. Saw off the Gibson neck, route a pocket, and install a Fender, one-piece maple neck. 8-)
LOL.
With all the new technology and material no one has come up with a better solution for an improved guitar nut . Mind boggling
If you are talking about repair of string slots, there is a better solution than the superglue method.
I use dental composites on bone nuts, on vintage guitars, when we try to avoid replacing the nut, to preserve all original parts on a vintage guitar.
Dental composites will hold up for years in a wet environment, inside of the mouth, despite all the biting and chewing. There are seven kinds of dental composites.
I will make some videos about that.
A friend of mine who left dentistry was using dental materials w/UV hardening on nuts over a decade ago.
@@chrisghiardi117 Yes, few repair techs use dental composites. It is just not very widespread. It is also not as easy as most people might think, to do it right.
@@GuitarQuackery StewMac sells nut powder but I think it still uses super glue.
the chinese proverbs are so interesting lol
...and useful, too.
Hi GQ. You've got your work cut out for you there. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole unless I Had signed permission to Refret and re install new binding and new nut.A lot of those old Gibson guitars were just mass produced without any quality control by low paid workers,they were riding the gravy 🚆 Train. Best Regards 😃 John.
John, I do refrets on old Gibson guitars all the time. In fact, I am refreting a Gibson Les Paul this week, as we speak, as well as vintage Fender Strat.
I would not have to refret this one, though, to fix the issues.
The binding does not have to be replaced, necessarily, as there are ways of fixing the nibs, by fusing melted binding plastics.
The fillings on this nut are actually holding up, although there is a little bit of chipping on one of the strings. I am more having an issue with the fact that this was done without disclosing it to the customer.
Also, there are better methods of fixing low string slots on the nut, other than the superglue method.
If I do any of that work, it should be an interesting video.
needs new frets, no nibs, new nut & alla stuff that goes with
Some people don't like the nibs. I used to hate them and I refretted one of my Les Pauls because of that. But later I started liking them.
There's an old Chinese proverb, be careful with your G-string when in the saddle, cowboy.
That’s a good proverb.
Please, can somebody name one other manufacturer on Planet Earth besides Gibson that puts fret nibs on their guitars? Gibson might argue that's because literally everybody else does this wrong and all guitars should have fret nibs because _________. 🤔 Actually nobody else does this that I'm aware of. Gibson probably does it because fret nibs are a craftsmanship detail that implies a higher quality instrument by having features that are not easy to do well or even do at all. Is that really a fret nib's reason for being, just to be a pointless thing that's hard to do? It'd be nice to know what supposedly makes a nibbed fret end better. I've never heard anyone address this and explaining how a fret nib is done does not explain why. It does seem other brands would do it too if it was such a good way.
I believe fret nibs are just an outcome of the Gibson production workflow. They make a fretboard, with the frets installed, then they glue it on the neck, then put oversized binding on each side. Then they need to trim the oversized binding. I alway believed it was a production cost savings decision.
I had to send two 2016 flying v,s back to gibson as they were unplayable due to the e string catching between the nibs and the frets. What an awful design.
I used to feel the same way about fret nibs, but over the years I've grown to like them. Although I have seen Gibson guitars with fret nib playability issues, none of my Gibson guitars have any issues with the fret nibs. If they are properly done, they do not affect the playability for my personal playing style. But I do understand that they don't work for everyone.
Fret nibs are only good for one thing…. To give you yet another thing to worry about and complain about how Gibson quality sucks. I don’t see why people like them.
Do you think you might like them on acoustic guitars? As the high E string is less likely to slip, on an acoustic?
It's a shame to pay so much for a brand that simply doesn't care . In 1994, the same year of this guitar, i bought a Gibson BB King Lucille in red. I was so disapointed. Frets were also flat and the intonation was wrong all along the fretboard. I sold it less than a year after loosing a lot of money. Never again!
All brands have some sort of QC issues every now and then. I just returned a MIM Fender strat that had some issues as well. The intonation on the 12th fret was so far sharp that it was almost the next note.. And I just saw a video of someone reviewing a brand new American fender strat that had a crooked neck.
I'm not a Gibson fanboy, nor do I claim they're perfect. But I'm sick of seeing everyone act like Gibson is the only company that has QC issues and make a meme out of it.
I have a Gibson ES-335 from around that time and that guitar also has frets that look like flat metal bars. I never got around to crowning them. I hardly ever play that guitar and never liked the feel of those frets.
Gibson is definitely not the only company with QC issues. Fender has plenty to talk about. I even made some review videos of new fender guitars that people brought to the shop for setups. And PRS also has QC issues, BTW.