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Originally Posted by konabob
Guess you're starting to figure this out, but you just need to find a competent tech to fix this problem for you. I've had an ES-175 for over 5 years and have never heard the buzzing your describe, but it must be relatively simple for someone to isolate and fix.
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Yeah, you'd think so wouldn't you? Apparently the "tech" I'm dealing with can really unscrew them pickups and do a mean string replacement, but he just puts it back in the case and calls me to pick it up as if it's done, when the buzzing is still clearly audible. I mean, this is the first archtop I've ever owned so I don't know much about it's nature, but I took it to the store I bought it from because you get a free set up within a year of purchase. I figured I'd get this fixed for free, which was my main purpose in having a tech look at it, and move up from the factory 10 gauge strings to a 13-56 jazz set, which I think required widening of the nut slots (though he probably didn't). The guitar is still there and I'm going tomorrow to compare it's buzzing to the apparent buzzing of a Steve Howe ES-175 they have there which I've already played and don't recall buzzing, but I'll see. However, that fact that you've never had a problem like this in the past 5 years you've owned your ES-175 tells me that this tech is possibly bs-ing me in saying that it is the nature of Jazz boxes to buzz.
So, thus far I've read an account of someone with seemingly the same problem as me which was easily fixed and your account of ownership which was flawless. Is this Alto Music tech just making excuses or do archtops actually tend to buzz in the body? I need to know whether to 1) Deal with it and possibly try to find loose/touching wires myself because this is a common problem among archtops/ES-175s or 2) Request a new one from Alto Music/Gibson or find a real guitar tech because buzzing from a $2,600 Gibson is simply unacceptable.