New Gibson ES-339

[YerDugliness]

Yes, I've heard that it is a pain to deal with changing anything on hollows/semihollows.

Must be, I paid $95 for labor only when I had all 4 pots, the caps, the switch and the plug replaced in my Dot. I took the good advice of those on the Epiphone forum, who said to replace everything at the same time since labor is such an expense on these guitars.

Just two days ago I had to return it to the repair shop b/c all of a sudden the "high quality" Switchcraft switch I had put in only picks up on the neck pickup, and after only about 30 minutes of play time.

Needless to say, I'm expecting a warranty replacement at no cost, particularly the labor.

Next thing to get mod'ed is the pups .

Dugly

[hubberjub***]

The Newport is the one I drool over the most often, but it is out of my price range.

The Newport is an awesome guitar. The QC at Hamer is incredible. That being said, in terms of a Gibson $1799 for the es339 seems downright reasonable. Some of the Les Paul Studio models are $1500 or more.