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I've been playing my new 2013 lightly aged hand picked R9 a few hours a day for a week. I don't hate the Custom Buckers, but I don't love them either. I have 2 other LPs with BB1, 2 and 3 and I like both of them better. When I played my new guitar in the store, I was able to compare it to 3...

So I went and did it. It's a new 2013 "tea honey burst" lightly aged R9. I think she's gorgeous, but I'm having concerns with 2 things. First, most of the photos I take look WAY orangier than she really looks. The first photo in the store is more accurate but the outdoor ones show the...

Hey guys, i know one pic isn't much, but can anyone tell me about the model and original street price (not today's price) of this R9? It is aged, not sure if its "lightly" or heavy. There is Laquer gone on the back edges but not the top. Lots of pits and checking everywhere. It is being...

Even though I'm a geezer, I usually like punk and post punk more than classic rock. Not that I don't like classic rock, I do. The major exception is Zeppelin. I adore them, to put it mildly. And all my life I've very specifically avoided playing Zep on guitar because I didn't want to ruin...

Here's a couple more photos of my ES-Les Paul. I drove from Minneapolis to LaCrosse, Wi to buy it from Daves guitar (and look at his museum). So does it belong in the general les paul area here, or the other Gibsons and ES section? Either way, I like it a lot. I finally got around to weighing...

I saw this new in a store and took it right home. I've had the Epiphone g1275, the OLP ernie ball double and an Ovationmdouble neck. Those only lasted months because... In respective order.... 1. too damn heavy. 2. Sounded like a bag of farts 3. Played poorly This baby solves all of those...

There was my first LP. Then there were 3 then 5 then 7. No matter how many times I thin the herd, I keep coming back to five Les Pauls being exactly the right number for me. This allows me to have one hanging to look at and play occasionally, another as number 1, and 3 in rotation for...

I got this a couple of weeks ago. I was looking at 5 year old threads about green guitars and showed my wife a few. She found this one and asked if i liked it. :) It came with all nickel hardware except the grovers were chrome! How the hell did Gibson Custom get that wrong? The dealer sent my...

I've always thought bare double creams were the prettiest pickups ever. I've only ever seen pictures of a couple sets and I think they are gorgeous. I did have some odd brand Asian guitar that had them along with alternating layers of mahogany and maple like stripes and they looked great, but...

Can anyone post pictures of what the correct switch tip used on 1995 HCSB historics looked like? Also, was that an era where more than one type were shipped? Thanks.

A dealer has a new, unsold, perfect 1994 R9. The S/N is around #250. Beautiful 1/4" wide slight chevron flame. He's already had it in storage for almost 15 years, and he's not planning on giving it away. But what should it sell for? Does the fact that its true NOS make it more valuable...

I'd like to know what case candy and in fact what CASE folks got with thier 1994-1995 R9's and R0's Can anyone help? I'd like to get a concensus of what is "correct" from that era. Thanks

I finally got a chance to get some pics of my 2008 R0. There was some discussion about it on this thread http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=150297 I've had a couple of months now to play this baby and I just can't get over how much different it is from all the other LPs I own...

I'm buying a NOS 1995 R0! Its at the original dealer, Gibson confirmed. Its expensive. Its beautiful. The lacquer has shrunken to the point where its contoured over every line in the grain, every wave, every pore. Whats a fair price range for this piece? I know its pretty rare. NOS is even...

Here's my new R0. It came with a story (I trust the store). Presumably, a famous hollywood actor who I wont name (but he may have boogied with wild canines) plays in a band. This band played in the Gibson guitar tent at an event on 1-8-2008. This unnamed actor and/or his band was either...