Gibson Baldwin Signature Les Paul Set up
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Channel: Sam Deeks · 2015 · Comedy
** Caution! Not for anyone with a short attention span. These videos are not intended for entertainment. Instead they are for customers (or prospective customers) of Reloved Guitars and other people interested in guitar tech ** This video shows the disassembly, cleaning, fret levelling and re-assembly of a Gibson Baldwin Signature Les Paul copy (what a mouthful!). I got this guitar for two reasons: first, to me it ticked quite a few boxes for a good budget guitar and second, it seemed to have a lot of haters out there and I love an underdog :-) Criticism of this guitar focuses (like a lot of criticism of a lot of guitars) on the fact that it has a bolt-on neck and that it needs a lot of set up work to make it playable. In my experience, bolt on neck guitars are brilliant - every bit as good as glued necks and a lot more accessible for working on & modifying. Scott Grove on YouTube also proves to my satisfaction that out of his vast guitar collection it's the bolt-on necks that sustain the longest. Additionally I've yet to see comparable evidence that glued neck guitars sustain longer than bolted necks. As for needing a lot of fret & set up work...? Well so far so do 100% of the 70+ guitars I've set up. This guitar also happened to have completed messed up wiring but that was eventually solved by re-wiring and tracking down the primary fault to the live / earth wires being the wrong way round at the jack input socket (!!). Apart from that, everything about this guitar I really like. It has a lovely, slender playable neck; a really nice weight, good looking sunburst, the simplest and most effective bridge...and fairly decent Epiphone humbuckers. And the bolt-on neck is unusual in that it's maple and not painted which makes this guitar a little unusual. My conclusion is that this guitar (when the frets are sorted and it is set up properly) is actually MORE than the sum of its' parts and would make an excellent guitar to learn on.
