CHEAP LES PAUL

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:43 pm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instrume ... 528124.htm

looks nice...

price is about right...

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:51 pm

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:32 pm

Looky here, y'all got me excited when you said 'cheap'. My sporran started a quivering an all an all. Then I read $2.5k and realised - we live in different lives...

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:49 pm

$2500 for a fire damaged Les Paul from the Mid 1980's

Hmmm....Pass.

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:18 pm

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:32 pm

*wamp-wamp-wamp-wahhhhhhh*

Guitar Gallery is a rip. I sold a better condition Gibson LP Stdio about a month ago for $1600 and I thought that was a cheeky price. You can buy a new Standard for not much more than that in most places....

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:57 pm

i'm sure it will be easy to reason with them.. and it seems in good nick..

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:33 pm

angry_young_poet wrote:i'm sure it will be easy to reason with them.. and it seems in good nick..

you're not keen on this gat, are you? Sorry, the alarm bells are rining for me. I've had a couple of mates burned by GG on stuff which was sold to them as "new" but was in fact shop-soiled or returned.

caveat emptor, my friend, or as we say in the english "buyer beware".....

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:53 am

Especially as middle late 70's/80's Gibsons were before the revival in quality/attention to detail of the 90's. You can find a nice one but the quality could be very average.

I reckon becuase of this you should start with a ball park figure of the $1600 of the LP Studio (maybe even lower) and if they don't want to negociate on an 80's guitar then walk away.

Alos another thought is what sort of long term problems smoke and presumably heat damage does to LP's?? for example will the neck warp slowly over time (the truss rod won't stop major warping)??

goldtop0 · Post by **goldtop0** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:06 pm

A white? Standard gold hardware and all mid 80's I think would be a crap gat. I've never seen or heard of a White Standard before,that's more a LP Custom thing. Some of you Wgton guys should go and give it a good blast and see what it's like. I once had an 88 Standard and it sounded like crap no matter what I did to it,spank stroke or cuddle nothing worked she was a dog,luckily it was stolen so now someone else has got the problem sore back and ears

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:42 pm

nah im not keen on buying it.. just though someone might be..

hmm from what scarecrow said GG isn't very good at describing products.

i don't want to sound evil cuz the owner knows me, but i did have one of my guitars set up there once and the guy who did it totally screwed it up.. i had to take it to another guitar place and have it PROPERLY set up..

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 11:01 pm

I get on really well with the GG guys and have never ahd a problem there. Nice guys. A good friend of mine got a Maton Mastersound from there for 750 that is an amazing gat, great price too.

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:03 pm

I've had mixed waves from a couple of visits to GG - sometimes it seemed like they cared and knew other times - ummm sort of got the feeling that it was 'here's another sucker'.