How do you keep your vintage Les Pauls safe?

Bob Womack · Jul 20, 2017

Don't own any vintage, but...

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Chef Greg · Jul 20, 2017

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djd100 · Jul 20, 2017

Hey Tom, how vintage is that shotgun?

Tom Wittrock said:

Tom Wittrock · Jul 21, 2017

djd100 said:
Hey Tom, how vintage is that shotgun?

I don't know, but likely much older than the Les Pauls.

djangolad · Jul 25, 2017

The only working guitarist I personally know
who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

duaneflowers · Jul 25, 2017

I prefer to keep mine safe by not buying any...

And I might add that I haven't lost or damaged one yet!!! :rofl

BurstWurst · Jul 25, 2017

djangolad said:
The only working guitarist I personally know who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

That's a little on the extreme (and absurd) side. I struggle with the logic here, and imagine that if it has a replacement neck it's likely for another reason. And I'm averse to popping the necks out of old fenders.......

sws1 · Jul 25, 2017

BurstWurst said:
TI struggle with the logic here, and imagine that if it has a replacement neck it's likely for another reason. And I'm averse to popping the necks out of old fenders.......

Particularly when there is another unmolested burst right next to it.

CDaughtry · Jul 25, 2017

djangolad said:
The only working guitarist I personally know
who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

I'm sure the next owner will appreciate that precaution. It'll save him about a hundred grand.:hee

asapmaz · Jul 25, 2017

djangolad said:
The only working guitarist I personally know
who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
Some people think a little too "outside the box."
That's my nice way of saying they're idiots, btw.

BurstWurst · Jul 25, 2017

asapmaz said:
That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
Some people think a little too "outside the box."
That's my nice way of saying they're idiots, btw.

More like thinking OUT OF THEIR MIND!
I won't even separate the necks from my 50s Fender guitars.

Tom Wittrock · Jul 26, 2017

djangolad said:
The only working guitarist I personally know
who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

:bigal
No offense to you, but I don't believe this.
It just doesn't make sense.

Maxmc · Jul 26, 2017

djangolad said:
The only working guitarist I personally know
who plays a Burst on tour has had it's original neck removed and stored.He plays his 59 burst with a replacement neck. Serves two purposes: non burst serial number to attract crooks, and obviously no damage done if the headstock breaks. He also takes a 60 with him but has not taken the same precaution.

He may as well do what Francis Rossi from Status Quo used to do to his Teles so no one would pinch them: he'd drill large holes through the bodies of his guitars. Has the same effect: you end up with a great sounding and playing but almost worthless guitar. Makes no sense to me.

T.Allen · Jul 26, 2017

ScumbackSpeakers said:
Pit bull, alarm, home defense weapons are what I rely on.

I have my peeps, my bodyguards, my homies. They have my six. :tri

johnnyslim · Jul 26, 2017

Do you mean at home or at a gig? Home there is an alarm system. If not shut off in one minute police are on their way. It would take a "stranger" a few minutes to run around the house before they found my guitar room. Busted before they get there and away. Otherwise, it would have been a job by an acquaintance. At a gig, the average bar fly has no idea what kind of guitar I am playing and could not care less. Still, at a gig I keep my Gibson's in full view. I have been known to take my Les Paul to the can between sets.

I did get a quick wake up call one time. I took a Les Paul to a gig in the 50's Lifton case. That case set off some alarms for some guitar wise bar patrons. I have been using non-Gibson cases since then and the Lifton's stay in the house.

renderit · Jul 26, 2017

these hold 18 LP sized fiddles...

https://www.snapsafe.com/modular-safes/super-titan-xl

NYCBURST · Jul 26, 2017

I cant believe someone just suggested that there is a man out there, popping the necks off of 1959 Les Pauls, so he can play them out somewhere. I have
heard a lot of ridiculous guitar myths in my time, but I got to say, that's a a dandy !

Tom Wittrock · Jul 26, 2017

renderit said:
these hold 18 LP sized fiddles...

https://www.snapsafe.com/modular-safes/super-titan-xl

I doubt you could get more than 5 in there. :ganz

sws1 · Jul 26, 2017

NYCBURST said:
I cant believe someone just suggested that there is a man out there, popping the necks off of 1959 Les Pauls, so he can play them out somewhere. I have
heard a lot of ridiculous guitar myths in my time, but I got to say, that's a a dandy !

And only '59 bursts. Not '60s or '58s. lol

NYCBURST · Jul 26, 2017

sws1 said:
And only '59 bursts. Not '60s or '58s. lol

lol That's true... because that would just be absurd...

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