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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul

Funny that you post this. I have been looking at 1956 Gibson LPs recently and dowloaded quite a few photos and info about them. To save a few dollars, I am inclined to make my own birthyear LP. Never mind it isn't the real thing as long as it looks cool and plays well :D
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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GrantB wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:30 am
Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
That is a bit of me...
Thought so.
My birth year. Best birth year guitar ever.
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul


An interesting beast for sure.....sunburst........ well a darkburst and not a real fat neck at all by the looks of it.......very unique......thanks for posting Slowly 8)
Doin' that scrapyard thing.

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
Nice!

Interestingly, it has that wear patch under the high E, midway between the pickups. The Joe Perry/Slash 59 has the same. Some people must be holding the pick really screwy to be hitting the wood there....

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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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murky wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:57 pm
Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
Nice!

Interestingly, it has that wear patch under the high E, midway between the pickups. The Joe Perry/Slash 59 has the same. Some people must be holding the pick really screwy to be hitting the wood there....
Digging in....
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:40 am
GrantB wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:30 am
Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
That is a bit of me...
Thought so.
My birth year. Best birth year guitar ever.
Looking at that more closely on the big screen, I dare to say that those fingerboard dimples have been poorly filled in... standing out like sore thumbs. I suppose the lighting in the photo might exaggerate it but they could have at least tried to give it some artificial grain and go for similar reflection. Not easy, but can be done...
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:45 pm
murky wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:57 pm
Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:49 am Now this would be serious bragging rights! 8)

https://rudysmusic.com/collections/elec ... t-les-paul
Nice!

Interestingly, it has that wear patch under the high E, midway between the pickups. The Joe Perry/Slash 59 has the same. Some people must be holding the pick really screwy to be hitting the wood there....
Digging in....
Yeah, but that much though? And you have to kind of slip the pick under the strings to get behind the pickguard.

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Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

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https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/CUSKBN534 ... d/Wine-Red
9-hole weight-relieved mahogany body, aged gold hardware, Grover® Kidney tuners, and 490R and 498T pickups
$8,999.00
Seems like it's just based on a bog standard early 90's LPC? I guess if you have a 90's wine red custom you should hold onto it, we all saw what happened to the orignal silverbursts after the Adam Jones sig sold out...
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godgrinder wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:52 pm https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/CUSKBN534 ... d/Wine-Red
9-hole weight-relieved mahogany body, aged gold hardware, Grover® Kidney tuners, and 490R and 498T pickups
$8,999.00
Seems like it's just based on a bog standard early 90's LPC? I guess if you have a 90's wine red custom you should hold onto it, we all saw what happened to the orignal silverbursts after the Adam Jones sig sold out...
Just saw that myself
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/gibson ... y-cantrell
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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jeremyb wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 6:13 pm"I let it breath...etc".

:mental:
This is actually the only way to let the bad notes out.
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Re: Return of the Gibson shocker thread!

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GrantB wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:13 pm
jeremyb wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 6:13 pm"I let it breath...etc".

:mental:
This is actually the only way to let the bad notes out.
Better out than in...

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