SAM ASH® 45-DAY SATISFACTION GUARANTEE: If you aren’t satisfied with your purchase for any reason, just return it within 30 days for a full refund or within 45 days for a full exchange. Returns must be in original condition with your Sam Ash receipt, all original packaging, accessories, manuals, and blank warranty cards. Limitations: For health reasons we do not accept returns of harmonicas and internal earphones. Please contact the manufacturer if defec- tive. We do not accept returns of open computer software, books, sheet music, and other easily copied materials. We do not accept returns of opened packages of strings, cartridges, styli, fog fluid, tubes, and cleaning products. Exceptions: There is a 15-day return period and a 15% restocking fee on microphones, mixers, speakers, power amps, rack effects, computers, recording, DJ, lighting, karaoke equipment, and pro workstations. There is no restocking fee on exchanges for like items; We do not accept returns on special order merchandise.; We reserve the right to require ID and deny return privileges to abusers of our policy.; Payment of Refunds: Refunds paid by the same method of payment as the original purchase whenever possible. Allow 15 business days for refund checks from our main office. SAM ASH® Best In The Business 50 State/60 Day BEST PRICE Guarantee: We Guarantee you the lowest price on your Sam Ash purchase. Sam Ash always beats the competition! Within 60 days, show us a lower price on the same product advertised by a US authorized dealer who has the product in stock, and we will beat that deal. Only applies to new products. Demo models, factory seconds, used items, and floor samples are not included. Our staff must verify E-commerce ads at the time of refund for price, stock, and status as an authorized internet retailer. Trade it In or Sell It To Us For INSTANT CREDIT. All trades and purchases must comply with applicable laws. We reserve the right to decline to purchase or accept in trade any item in our sole discretion. In our Las Vegas store we accept trades only, no purchases. 12 MONTHS NO PAYMENTS, NO INTEREST ON YOUR FIRST PURCHASE! Plus: Extra discounts on accessories, strings, drum heads, gig bags, stands and cables! The Sam Ash Back Stage Club is your pass to exclusive members-only discounts and special benefits! Come into your local Sam Ash Store and tell them you want to join the club! *Back Stage Club members receive discounts on all purchases of strings, drum heads, gig bags, stands and cables as well as special discounts on 2-Year service plans and on receipts with four or more items! The Back Stage Club 60/30 Trade-Up Guarantee lets you trade in your gear and receive 60% of the purchase price towards new gear that sells for at least 30% more than the original gear purchased! 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We were lucky enough as small kids to visit the original Gibson guitar factory in Kalamazoo. In the late 1960’s we could be found in our old Hempstead, Long Island store doing all sorts of things with Gibson guitars - selling them, trading them, customizing them, and designing custom models. In fact, back in 1971 when Gibson only made the Les Paul Deluxe with the small humbuckers, we had them make 100 pieces with large humbucking pickups like the ’57 and ’58 models. That version became so popular that they starting making them for everybody as the Les Paul Standard we all know and love today. Back in the old days we would wait until closing and crank them up through Marshall stacks. This was before the Marshalls had master volume controls so we had to play them pretty loud to get the Jimmy Page/Eric Clapton crunchy sound we both loved. The big plate glass windows in the store would shake with every power chord! Sam remembers when everyone wanted DiMarzio pickups and brass hardware on their Gibsons because the pickups Gibson was making back then just did not have enough output or sustain. The tunomatic bridges came with plastic inserts that had to be replaced. Customers wanted the hotter instruments with better tone so we installed the stuff ourselves. We would pick out a decent playing Les Paul and change the pickups, nut, bridge and hardware. I guess these were the first “Hot Rodded” Gibsons. Back then they used to ship Gibsons with heavy-gauge flat-wound strings that nobody could play. We used to restring every guitar that came in with lighter gauge round-wounds until we finally convinced them to ship them with .009s from the factory. The truth is the quality of Gibson guitars in the late seventies and early eighties was pretty bad. They were owned by some big conglomerate that tried to figure out different ways of reducing their cost while they raised the prices. People began to get dissatisfied with the quality of these once legendary instruments. Then in the late eighties, our friend Henry Juszkiewicz, a guitar lover with a Harvard MBA bought the company. Henry knew that guitarists were looking for Gibson to return to the quality of the “golden era” of the late fifties and early sixties. If it weren’t for Henry’s vision and love of the instrument, Gibson would not be what it is today. Today Sam and I still have the same passion for the guitar only we get to exercise it on a much larger scale. We still work with the factories to make guitars that players really want. Dozens of guitars have come to market because of ideas that our guitar-buying team came up with; colors, pickup configurations, woods, and finishes. We make sure that every time you pick up a Gibson – or any other guitar – in one of our stores it is set up and “Gig Ready”. Both of my brothers, Sammy (COO) and David (Co-CEO) are personally in- volved in virtually every aspect of the Sam Ash business. Sam and I are still active players and big time guitar enthusiasts with over 100 guitars in each of our personal collections. David is the systems, operations, and legal guy. The three of us love going to the stores and talking “guitar” with our sales people and customers. And, of course, we are proud to offer one of the larg- est selections of new and used Gibsons anywhere. In fact, we are constantly scouring the used guitar universe for unique examples of Gibsons from the 50’s, 60’s 70’s, 80’s and beyond.