Great guitars.
The only difference is the satin stain type finish vs. the Normal full finish.
The necks on the ones i have played are fairly thick (59 rounded profile)
I don`t care too much on finish. Tone and playabilty are more important to me.
It looks like we have a green light.
I don't think that's the case. Heck the faded is all transparent making it harder to hide than on a painted regular model. Same guitar, faded finish and a gig bag is where they save a few hundred.The other difference is that the body wood MAY be a grade below what is used on the '67 RIs, and may also have as many as 4 pieces in the body.
The neck on the faded is the same as the regular models, the person above who ranted about it being terrible wouldn't like any of them. The only difference is the finish and gig bag, they are great guitars, especially for modding. Any Gibson with an unbound neck is prone to having fret ends that are not smooth, faded or regular its all the same, especially if the fretboard is dehydrated and has shrunk a bit.
Here's a faded that I modded, stripped the finish and rubbed it in tung oil, went through different humbuckers and then some P90's (its routed already for both, just had to buy a new pickguard).
And I especially like the faded white model with the three pickups, but for the finish not the pickup configuration.
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Yes, they are definitely shredder necks, flat and wide. And that's the case with all of them, faded, non-faded, at least the recent ones. My gothic (I forget the year, 2001 ?), and a couple faded and regular models from throughout the 00's all have the same neck.The thing that's been killing me about all modern Vs is the neck shape. It's this very wide, very flat thing that I just cannot handle (pun intended ha ha). Seriously, my kingdom for a fat-necked V!
I don't think that's the case. Heck the faded is all transparent making it harder to hide than on a painted regular model. Same guitar, faded finish and a gig bag is where they save a few hundred.
The neck on the faded is the same as the regular models, the person above who ranted about it being terrible wouldn't like any of them. The only difference is the finish and gig bag, they are great guitars, especially for modding. Any Gibson with an unbound neck is prone to having fret ends that are not smooth, faded or regular its all the same, especially if the fretboard is dehydrated and has shrunk a bit.
Here's a faded that I modded, stripped the finish and rubbed it in tung oil, went through different humbuckers and then some P90's (its routed already for both, just had to buy a new pickguard).
And I especially like the faded white model with the three pickups, but for the finish not the pickup configuration.
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