JasonE
New Member
I had 4 Fender guitars that had the top screw come out of them. They drilled the hole too big before they put the screw in. All seemed good until the weight of the guitar was on the button for a while. I had to fix all of them by pushing some slivers of oak into the holes with some wood glue then putting the screw back in. I had zero issues after that.I'm not agreeing with it, but on the flip side it wouldn't be an issue to lose my serenity over. So far down my list of concerns.. I was more upset at a Les Paul I bought new that the strap button came out the first week or two of ownership. If Gibson had addressed the issue at the factory with a dowel that may have never happened.
I would rather see it fixed the way I did mine than to drill a much bigger hole to put a dowel in it. That is an extreme fix IMHO. I understand there are times when that fix is needed but not sure this is one of those times. The part that would really fire me up is the fact that it looks like they just hammered the dowel in there and moved on. They didn't have one that fully filled the hole and they left it raw. They could have put a full piece in there so it was fully filled and flush, put some stain on it and touched the finish up on it to make it look much better than that.
I just can't imagine that Paul would be okay with how this was fixed and how it looks if he saw it. I am betting he would not be happy at all with it.