By mid-summer, the block wall had a displaced top course. In the spring, the sun started to peek out, and the owner noticed some cracks in the block wall. It was fully welded and anchored at all points on the block wall. We built the block wall, and then installed the steel superstructure as drawn. The engineer forgot to account for the thermal expansion of steel. I was involved in constructing a building with concrete block walls and a steel roof structure. Here's an illustration which shows how much metal parts, like a truss rod, can move due to temperature variation. I'm just saying it is fairly reasonable for the factory to expect somebody on the receiving end to set up the guitar, since the truss rod is going to expand and contract a bit, the wood will move, and so on. I'm not saying your bass doesn't have problems beyond setup - I don't know one way or another.
So, even if the guitar were set up from the factory, it wouldn't be when it gets where it's going. If it comes from a factory in one place, and goes to a buyer somewhere else, the chances the setup would last is about zero. This is why: during shipping, a guitar is going to encounter all kinds of different temperatures, amounts of humidity, and who knows what all other environmental conditions. I'm not sure any of them ship guitars set up from the factory. I hope somebody from Gibson reads this post and replies as to what in fact their policy is when they ship their products. But only Gibson can answer this question. If only to avoid repeated and unnecessary problems like this. Its hard for me to believe that Gibson would ship new guitars that were not in a ready to play condition right out of the box. I did not want to take a chance getting stuck with a lemon, so I still elected to have another guitar shipped to me. He felt my problem might be resolved by "having their store tech adjust the saddle". The salesman at the store stated that "Gibson does not ship their guitars already set up". I explained my problem and Guitar Center told me that to expidite the return process, I should take the guitar to my local Guitar Center store and the distribution center would then ship me one of the 5 they have left. I called the Guitar Center's distribution center, they now have 5 Thunderbird Shortscales left. If they still have any left in stock, return it. Am I correct? There may be time to have it replaced if they have not sold the remaining guitars left in stock. This inplies to me that the neck is bowed and is not something that can be corrected by merely adjusting the truss rod.
But on the neck of my brand new out of the box Thunderbird Shortscale Bass, the strings of the last (bottom) fret are much higher than the strings at the first fret (top of neck). The action of my six string guitars is uniform throughout the fret board. Out of the box I have one concern about this bass, the action. I called Guitar Center Online last week and they told me they only had 12 left. The Gibson person I spoke to told me Gibson has never made a lot of basses, and that they may have already manufactured all that will be made of the new gibson thunderbird shortscale. I worried I might miss out if this was true by waiting, So I gave Gibson's sales department a call regarding whether there was a limited run of the gibson thunderbird shortscale bass guitar. Guitar Center leads off their description of the Thunderbird Shortscale Bass by calling it a "Limited Run". Hey everybody! Have heard about the new Thunderbird short scale bass? It looks extremely cool.
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