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Based on what @ICBM posted?
I'm sure if the neck was off the guitar would have been horrible to play, and you'd have know something was wrong even if you didn't know what. You've said a few times that it's nice to place.
Put down the forum for 5 minutes, slacken strings and drop the bridge down (and making both sides level) and go from there. Honest man you weren't worried about neck angles or anything else a couple of hours ago. You just wanted the knobs on straight (ooo eerrr) and the action lowered, so I'd getting on with sorting the action to your taste.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It all seems a bit of a shame and a waste of time around what what would be a dream come true to many people.
So to sound so miserable, but this guitar could be a once in a lifetime game changing musical instrument for someone, rather than just something for a load of jaded collectors to poke and sneer at.
Send the fucker back, please.
Gibson's famous quality control struck again I guess.
Badly set up out of the factory, wonky knobs but not sure you can blame them on the e-tune, don't they outsource those?
Anyway, this one is cursed. The broker e-tune is enough a reason to send it back. OP didn't like the top at first anyway so lets call this lesson learn in Gibson. Now that the e-tune is broken, so free shipping back as opposed to a fee so it could be a blessing in disguise.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This is where you decide if the money saving of buying from a box shift like thomann was worth the saving over buying from a shop who could have set it up before you'd taken it home. If I remember right the OP saved over £400 so I think it was.
Its already been said that the guitar plays lovely and sounds it too. This isn't a Gibson issue as such to me it seems like someone wanting to love a guitar they aren't 100% about and then on mass fear mongering by others about issues the guitar doesn't have.
The lesson with Gibson is ordering one unseen, or that one shouldn't do. You can do that with PRS, Taylor and even Fender but never a Gibson. I cannot fathom a guitar would even come out of a PRS factory set up like that, not even an SE. A £2k instrument should come out all set up out of the box, perhaps getting it in tune and that't about it. One may argue the action may need adjusting to taste but the way he had it was way out of wack. Sure you can fix it yourself but that isn't the point, the point is you shouldn't have to. There is no excuses for it, that's the job of the guy at the end who does quality control and checking.
I think a used Gibson is the way to go, at least they have been bought already, so the bad ones have been filtered out and sent back and the first customer has done the quality control on your behalf. Hopefully he or she picked out a nice one in person to begin with already even.
I guess what I'm hinting at is that Western Hemisphere guitar forum elephant-in-the-room, First world Problems.
I know we're never supposed to mention this or our whole edifice will come crashing down, but sometimes I think what three quarters of the world's population would think of this guitar and what it would mean to them to make music on it, and all we can do is poke it with our toes, mutter about having to spend ten seconds lowering a bridge and generally seem mind-bogglingly ungrateful for the luxurious choices we find ourselves with.
In short, he bought it, he doesn't really like it, and wants everyone to join in with a chorus of Louis IV-style contemptuous powdered wig shaking.
I'm sorry, I just can't.
Almost every guitar I've ever bought has been a terrible set up, that includes fenders with saddles set at random hights or with terribly cut nuts etc. I just don't see the difference screwing down a bridge makes, it's a 2 minute job, the bridge was attached, it was straight and undamaged, the QC guy probably covered his duties there.
What the OP had to do was an adjustment, not a fix, I don't see it as a fault. I've bought 2 Les Paul's blind and both are fantastic, and a Gibson 335 the same, and an LPJ.