My 1994 R9 and some questions about the production

[d1M1]

hi folks

here is me new/old 1994 R9! some wrds about the history. i bought that beauty from a colector in germany. he told me that he was looking for a good sounding les paul for years but he couldnt find anything in germany. so he went to the usa before 12 years and after hard searching he came back with this one. he told me this one was the only one good looking and good sounding piece of wood out theere. i m not an expert but this is realy the best sounding les paul i ever had in my hands. i love the top too. can somebody tell me what for a color this one is?

i have now some questions about the production year 1994.
1) i read that murphy painted just the first 200 R9´s till he left 2 of novembre from gibson. in 1994 were build alround 350 R9´s. so how is it possibe to bulid in 10 months till novembre 200 guitars and in 2 months (novembre-december) 150 more? logicaly must be build alound 30 (350:12) guitars per month. so should be build alround 290-300 R9´s till the beginning of november and not 200 or?
2) i see that its common to separate the 1994 r9´s in myrphy ones and not. i think this is wrong. every guitar was build in 1994 is a murphy one. the first ones murphy painted and the others murphy shaped. murphy hand-scraped one day before he left from gibson the form of the top so the carving of the top after he left from gibson had his own shape (end of 1994 - beginning of 1995).

Walter Carter was that time the gibson historian and he wrote this:

The tops
were coming back from the plant,
after sanding and binding, a little
flatter than they were supposed to
be. Murphy discovered that the
carving form was laying at an odd
angle. The day before he left, he
hand-scraped the form, and the
tops made from that form, from
late 1994 and early 1995, are to
him “the coolest carving,” different
from any other period.

here some pics from my babe:









thanks

[stock_hippie]

what a hi-class beauty!!!!!

[d1M1]

thanks

[Nobi]

What a beauty, looks like a VOS Kossoff.

[stock_hippie]

go tp photobucket .com
open a account
download the photo from your computer to photo bucket
the photo will be in your album at photo bucket
run your cursor over the photo of your guitar photo and a row of img things will appear
click the bottom lowest one
now start a post here at LPF...See the yellow square? it will say image..click that and a popup will appear..then paste your image..from photo bucket
in the popup and post...bet it doesn't work..

[d1M1]

done. thanks a lot!

[MikeG59]

[quote=d1M1;2389313]hi folks



i have now some questions about the production year 1994.
1) i read that murphy painted just the first 200 R9´s till he left 2 of novembre from gibson. in 1994 were build alround 350 R9´s. so how is it possibe to bulid in 10 months till novembre 200 guitars and in 2 months (novembre-december) 150 more? logicaly must be build alound 30 (350:12) guitars per month. so should be build alround 290-300 R9´s till the beginning of november and not 200 or?
2) i see that its common to separate the 1994 r9´s in myrphy ones and not. i think this is wrong. every guitar was build in 1994 is a murphy one. the first ones murphy painted and the others murphy shaped. murphy hand-scraped one day before he left from gibson the form of the top so the carving of the top after he left from gibson had his own shape (end of 1994 - beginning of 1995).

you are incorrect here, no mythos. here is the fact with proof.

[Ryan Givhan]

[quote=MikeG59;2389805]

Originally Posted by d1M1

hi folks



i have now some questions about the production year 1994.
1) i read that murphy painted just the first 200 R9´s till he left 2 of novembre from gibson. in 1994 were build alround 350 R9´s. so how is it possibe to bulid in 10 months till novembre 200 guitars and in 2 months (novembre-december) 150 more? logicaly must be build alound 30 (350:12) guitars per month. so should be build alround 290-300 R9´s till the beginning of november and not 200 or?
2) i see that its common to separate the 1994 r9´s in myrphy ones and not. i think this is wrong. every guitar was build in 1994 is a murphy one. the first ones murphy painted and the others murphy shaped. murphy hand-scraped one day before he left from gibson the form of the top so the carving of the top after he left from gibson had his own shape (end of 1994 - beginning of 1995).

you are incorrect here, no mythos. here is the fact with proof.

bazinga! im still waiting for the day (very soon) that the best sounding les paul goes on sale.

[Ulli]

Originally Posted by Ryan Givhan

bazinga! im still waiting for the day (very soon) that the best sounding les paul goes on sale.

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