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WOW is right.
Not something you see every day- a '29 L5 in cherry. Not original factory (obviously), but factory refinned in the 60's:
Wow again! Jim, thank you for your contributions to this thread
Here's a late 60s B-25 in Cherry
WOW!Originally Posted by JimR56
Not something you see every day- a '29 L5 in cherry. Not original factory (obviously), but factory refinned in the 60's:
I love this thread!!
captaincanada - one of my favourite threads, thanks!
Good to see you here JimR56
Glad to be here, fb.
I hope we can keep this thread going... it's going to be a challenge to find more examples!
I really am not digging red as a color normally, but isn't the Gibson cherry red with all it's varieties one gorgeous, lovable color?
LordyNot something you see every day- a '29 L5 in cherry. Not original factory (obviously), but factory refinned in the 60's:
Hi CC, thanks for the welcome. This should be fun (I post on a few other guitar forums, but some of them are pretty slow at times).
The '63 L5CT, aka "George Gobel" model (modified with two humbuckers) is mine. The L5CT/Gobel with the Charlie Christian pickup is not mine (unfortunately), and the L5CES sold by Skinners is not mine. The only guitars of mine that I posted photos of here are the L5CT and the Epi Sheraton.
A few more views of my L5CT:
Hi Jim,
Good to see you here.
That's a great-looking Gobel! Looks a lot like the one in my avatar, but older
Danny W.
Thanks Danny, good to see you here too. My Gobel had a pretty rough life before I got it (in 1990), so it's more of a "player's guitar" than I'd prefer in terms of its condition, but wow what a player. My favorite of all the Gibsons I"ve ever owned.
You've been a guitar enthusiast for a long time- have you ever come across any other rare red Gibsons from the Golden Era? Super 400's? L5's? Johnny Smith's? I know there are more out there somewhere, waiting to be rediscovered (those ones in the Tsumura book always made me dream about finding something similar).
I just got this Casino in red that's fader quite a bit throughout the years:
Under the trem you can see something closer to what once was:
I never owned any, other than Gobels, so probably not. I suspect that anything I might have come across on someone's stock list wound up with Tsumura eventually. I do remember several red archtops over the years, but I'm not sure at this point if they were vintage or more modern.
I do still have a ton of dealers pre-WWW stock lists--if i find some time I'll look them over and see if there are any red ones.
Of course, there's this one, but it's too new to qualify for this thread:
Danny W.
infiniteposse, very nice Casino. It may have faded, but I've seen much worse in that department. Thanks for posting it.
Danny, thanks- I should look through my pre-www lists also.
Here's a gorgeous cardinal red Firebird I from Dave Rogers online gallery...
What color is my '65 Melody Maker? "Fire Engine Red"?
kwest, I believe that is "Cardinal Red"
Ok,thanks very much!
WHAT AN AWESOME THREAD!!!!!!!
The older I get, the better I was.
1965 cardinal red
1962
No offense, but I think we're getting a little off-track here. Love the 330, but cherry was a standard finish on those. If you look at the OP, this topic was originally intended for custom/unusual/rare examples of red finishes on Gibsons. I honestly love looking at things like that 330 too, but this thread could get pretty diluted if all red Gibsons were included.
Nice. It seems like it's less and less common to see a burgandy finish that hasn't started fading.
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Found a better photo of the previously-posted '60 L5CES Custom that was sold at Skinner's awhile back:
Also, a '60 Byrdland:
And the original prototype L5CT, originally owned by George Gobel:
Oh my god! Thanks for your stunning contributions JimR56!
And thanks to everyone else for contributing! cfh, I especially dig that Firebird with the black P-90s.
Amazing post!Found a better photo of the previously-posted '60 L5CES Custom that was sold at Skinner's awhile back:
Also, a '60 Byrdland:
And the original prototype L5CT, originally owned by George Gobel:
Make no mistake, it's a refin...but I'll offer this:
I chased the red 295 for years...gave up and did the refin just posted. Would love to hear more about this.
Mandolin headstock!
Thanks. I kind of surprised myself... I'm not known for being too computer-savvy, but I pulled off a little trick with those photos. The site where I found them had all the auction info in pdf form, so there wasn't a url for each photo that I could link to. The photos weren't very large, so I enlarged the page in my browser, then rotated them 90 degrees to take advantage of the width of the screen, then used my Mac's "screen shot" function to take snapshots of each one and copy the enlargements to my desktop. I cropped each one in the Preview app, then I uploaded them back onto the web, and voila.
Okay, it's time to take this thread to a whole new level...
Check out these photos of a (drumroll...) MEGA-rare 1961 Crest, and see also this thread: http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=183934
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