NO. Gibson does not get the neck angle right. Fixed Bridges and how to set up a Tune - o - Matic 

I learned a lot about bridges and more importantly neck angles. Thanks

beautiful guitars Cesar and info spot on!

Hi Cesar, Excellent Video 👍👍👍. I am almost 50 yo and still learning things about Guitars, I don't think that you ever totally stop learning new things! I remember an old Luthier telling me many years ago that the Two Contact points on a Guitar are very important, the Nut and the Bridge. Like you mentioned the Tail Piece has to be the correct height on a Gibson Style Guitar so it does not touch the back of the Bridge or you will get what he called ghost harmonics. You have a Beautiful Collection, and they are obviously looked after very well!👍. Take care Brother ♥️👍. Melbourne, Australia.

Lol the shade thrown at "RU-vid gurus" is real 😂

Just a humble comment here... I opted to rise the stop tail piece to get like 5 to 7 degrees. What I got was less resistance when bending strings... Well it's just me. I don't go all the way down with the stop tail piece as it has adjustment. It worked for me... And everyone can set up it's preferences. By the way, that Les Paul is amazing as well the PRS and your Yamaha... Great guitars. Thanks for your video and teaching, un abrazo !

Great video, good information and I appreciate your manner and kind approach, I will be watching more from you sir. Subbed. Now I also want to say I am impressed with your collection of guitars, I enjoyed seeing them a lot. I hope your injury is healed soon.

i was just checkin my flying v, and you are absolutely right my brother...

I like that Yamaha stop tail and bridge all in one piece, not seen that before. Great vid Cesar and good opportunity to show off all your lovely guitars. 🤩

Thank you my friend for all the information you gave us very informative😜

Based on the feedback on your summary i was able to raise the stopbar on a semi hollow this morning..it became a beast with a few turns thanks!

Yes, you're right about neck angles on les pauls , I look for that too ,I went paul shopping with a friend who wants to buy a les paul 50's standard . We stopped in a guitar center that had 30 or 40 pauls on the wall.. and maybe 10 or so 50's neck profile.. we found two that had correct neck angles Meaning stop bar to the body and no string touching the back of the bridge. Just two out of maybe 10 or 12 of them .. Gibson is inconsistent on their neck angles . They seemed to have better fit and finish but fail in the neck department. Of course you can always top wrap but that's not the point. But one thing they should get right from the start. They say that's why the stop bar is adjustable.. to me, that is BS.... Step it up, Gibson Les pauls are great guitars when you find a good one . For the price they ask, they should get the angle right.. In my opinion...

Hi Cesar, dead right as usual!! I have 3 Lefty Gibsons - My 335 and my SG Standard both have to have the stop-bar raised and my Custom Shop Les Paul Class 5 only need slight adjustment. My PRS McCarty has a wrap-around bridge and it is perfect. I think a lot of the issues are caused by lack of attention to detail at the Gibson factory. Beautiful collection of guitars you have there my friend, enjoy them all in good health. Another great video

Totalmente de acuerdo contigo, César. Es bastante difícil conseguir bajar el cordal hasta abajo en una Gibson de las actuales. Es una de las razones por las que mucha gente cambia el puente Nashville, por un ABR-1. Al ser este más estrecho, puedes conseguirlo, pero en cambio pierdes recorrido a la hora de hacer el quintaje. De ahí que luego haya que recurrir a invertir las selletas. Otros recurren al “top wrapping” para bajar el cordal, y reducir el ángulo del puente, con respecto al cordal reduciendo la tensión entre ambos. Aunque es recomendable usar un calibre 11 de cuerdas, para que no pierdan demasiada tensión. Buen vídeo. 👍🏻

Nice video!

y si la encordas utilzando el wraparound system, no aparecera ese espacio para meter el papel, sin levantar el stop piece???

i realize i have never had a good relationshio with guitars which pickup and covers are in a slope (as seen in 16:54) should strings be completely parallel to the pickups on that sloped pickups?

my friend, very good video, what about string thru? I have an epiphone explorer with no top tail piece, only string thru and a tune o matic bridge

I agree Gibson totally makes bad neck angles,that is the first thing I look for when I pick up a Gibson guitar.

Very informative 👍

Your gray 594 ♡ so beautiful. I learned a lot from this video. Than you.

What makes this worse, the neck angle isn’t consistent. I had a Classic that I didn’t have to raise the tailpiece on, while my current Gibson I have to. I don’t understand why you can’t get a longer screw since you are going to have to raise it.

Hello i have have Gibson 500t high output pickup in bridge position in my Esp Eclipse LP style guitar... What is your suggestion about height adjustment? At the momemt i set pickuo height about 2mm on treble side and 2.5mm on bass side. Maybe i shoud to go lower? I play with medium to high gain settings on amp and overdrive pedals. Thank you!

Thanks again Cesar, for sharing. I didn't know that the variation in Gibsons are that much. The stop tailpiece on my Epiphone Les Paul is flush against the body, with string clearance like you've shown. Haha! Do you have a Gibson with a flush tailpiece and proper string clearance? Thanks for showing us those fixed bridges. Cheers!

I’m dealing with this right now. I’ve had a couple 2023 SG Standards from Sweetwater with either stress fractures at the nut and scratches all over or a cosmetically perfect one with a high neck angle which requires the tailpiece to be jacked up super high so the strings are floppy and wobble out of tune. I’m exchanging again. If this one doesn’t work out I’m giving up.

I agree on the quality of Yamaha guitars,- I mean PRS are "reassuringly expensive" so you would expect the feel and playability to be perfect, but all of the Yamaha guitars I've tried had a certain quality at a non exorbitant price. As for Gibson........ who can say! They are certainly iconic.

Great video/info Cesar. Wow the top on the Gibson std.👌🏽Stunning. No offence Cesar, but our view about topwrap seems to differ. 😉 Sometimes topwrap is an improvement. 🙃👍🏼

amazing video .....you can count me in

Yes it seems Gibson quality is somewhat hit and miss, however a typical cure for strings hitting the tunomatic bridge is a replacement set, keep the old ones for future sale, the Gibson tunomatic is pretty wide, you can get variations with a much thinner base and higher bridge guides, which instantly cure this problem, or the old way is wrapping the strings over the stop tail, which I must says does change the guitar completely for the better, the lower break angle adds tons of sustain etc, that my experience with Gibsons, kinda always makes me wonder how they can vary so much and a issue like this still go on for so many years.

I agree with you 1000% about when it comes to "les paul style" guitars. PRS has nailed it! They are far superior to Gibson. Excellent video and information, as always. Rock on, Cesar!

Hey Cesar, are we going to see the new addition to your family? Has Bender got used to his new friend? Take care

There is a WORSE scenario. .. I had an epiphone ES335 - The neck angle was so wrong, I couldn't get the bridge low enough to get the action how I wanted it (1.8mm at octave) . If you have this issue , you're fucked 😞

Bridge and tail piece height to me has a huge impact on playability. I like them low with medium action on the fingerboard. Ive tried hundreds of LPs and only 1 passed the test. I have say that Gibson ARE consistent... At not getting the neck angle right. 🤣

If it doesn't affect the sound , tone or sustain... why does it matter if they are not consistent?

a quien se referirá cuando habla de RU-vid gurus??? jijiji who do you mean man about youtube gurus?? i'm guessing we won't give any names won't we?? hahaha

The neck angle of Gibson guitars is such a joke. I see the same proplems every time when I have a chance to explore a selection of properly se up Les Pauls. All of them have their Tune-o-matics at different height and many of them are running of out the intonation adjustment range. This is due to the inconsistency of their production.

then you spend 5 grand in a gibson eh???