ourmaninthenorth
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Restoration in the truest sense of the word.
While opinions should always be welcomed, anyone calling this guitar a fake burst needs to give their head a wobble. You just read an entire thread showing every single bit of work done to this guitar, including the before pictures and history of it - not something that the OP needed to share with us all. So he is telling everyone, publicly, in a respected forum, exactly what this guitar is and isn't. Not many people in this industry would do that, and documenting it avoids any future confusion which i think is laudable and exactly why the OP is one of the most trusted luthiers and vintage guitar specialists in the UK.
The guitar looks great, but I agree with the comment that it is a conversion and not a restoration. I think it would have been better to have left it as a Custom and finish it in cherry red. Anybody know how many maple topped 1954-61 Customs were made? There is one less now.
So, could one of you "in-the-know" please tell us exactly what this was before this work was done? :hmm
I can dress up as a Woman ( steady boys, steady ) but my DNA remains unaltered.
'Burst.
From what has been presented, the guitar was sold new as a black, three pick-up, ebony fingerboard, large split diamond headstock Custom. Now it is neither a Custom or a Standard, I guess it is a Custard.
It can of course join the plethora of Maple capped Customs from the 50's....that is of course if anyone knows of one...
Can you point to others of this "plethora"? :wah
Can you point to others of this "plethora"? :wah
Best guess...
An order for a Custom that Gibson lifted a Standard off the line to complete...
I read the commentary after the last photo, unless I missed it I don't get the compelling reason. Looks like great craftsmanship. It's his geetar he can do whatever he wants. However I am in the camp that I would have tried to bring it back to how it came into this world. If that meant a 3 p/u black LP Custom , so be it. YMMV