Solved: The Mystery of the Crown Inlay ( 1968 Les Paul Standards )
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UPDATE:
TW59, I hope you see this. I think it will make your night.
My anonymous source has been able to relax the privacy on this. Here is a link to the updated article. I hope you enjoy it!
PS - To my source, I hope the weather is nice in Tennessee this weekend. (wink)
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http://www.latesixtieslespauls.com/article_crownsolved.asp
TW59, I hope you see this. I think it will make your night.
My anonymous source has been able to relax the privacy on this. Here is a link to the updated article. I hope you enjoy it!PS - To my source, I hope the weather is nice in Tennessee this weekend. (wink)
LINK:
http://www.latesixtieslespauls.com/article_crownsolved.asp
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Now that is what I call documentation!! Thanks for sharing!
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UPDATE:
TW59, I hope you see this. I think it will make your night.
PS - To my source, I hope the weather is nice in Tennessee this weekend. (wink)
LINK:
http://www.latesixtieslespauls.com/article_crownsolved.asp
Very cool to have this piece of history!! :salude
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Glad you like it! :salude The source sought me out, and I was blown away to have this document effectively land in my lap. Very grateful.
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The more I think about it, the more incredible it is that you were able to get the actual documentation!!
While this type of mistake might have happened other times, we might never see another situation where the answer became so crystal clear. :dude:
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What an awesome thread and detective work! :3zone
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Such great points, Tom. Think of all the other idiosyncrasies with no explanations over the decades. This is a crazily specific document to address a thousand theories over the years. Although, I cannot take credit for this. I will just say that there are VERY passionate craftsmen building guitars in the Nashville area who wanted this to be known and leave it at that.
Sidebar Tom.... I don't know if you ever saw this, but I found that it seems as of April '68, Les wanted the Les Paul Standard to have humbuckers. To the point that the blue prints show humbuckers along with a notation of Les' desire for humbuckers. That was another fun discovery that I found a few years ago.
Thanks!!! Although again, this is all my source.
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Thank you to you both for your help from the very beginning!
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Even more great details.
Maybe your source can find the documentation when they changed the specs to P-90s. :hmm
Maybe your source
I bought this 1968 Les Paul used from Sherman and Clay (Clement St.) in SF in the middle of 1970. The photo was taken in May 1971. It had a superb sunburst finish and the head stock simply had Gibson on it. There was no crown or other script and the truss rod cover was blank. The opinion was that it was a Gold Top that had been refinished shortly after the original owner purchased it, perhaps by Satterlee & Chapin guitar shop in SF, on Ellis St.. I added the speed knobs.
""Harmon Satterlee's customers included well known folk (Smother's brothers), jazz, rock (David Crosby), classical (Segovia, and Rey de la Torre), and flamenco guitarists (Carlos Montoya, Sabicas and Juan Serrano), to name a few. If you combined all the music stores I have been to they would not equal Harmon's store, for the quality of instruments, advice, repair, and guitar lessons from Fred Stockton and Mariano Cordoba."
""Harmon Satterlee's customers included well known folk (Smother's brothers), jazz, rock (David Crosby), classical (Segovia, and Rey de la Torre), and flamenco guitarists (Carlos Montoya, Sabicas and Juan Serrano), to name a few. If you combined all the music stores I have been to they would not equal Harmon's store, for the quality of instruments, advice, repair, and guitar lessons from Fred Stockton and Mariano Cordoba."
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