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Vintage Black Beauty photos needed .......

Dr. Green

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I have a 57 BB historic reissue with 2 pups and gloss finish - super light weight at around 8.5 lb


I am debating getting it professionally reliced but don't want to do ANYTHING until I know how it should really look vintage.

while I have found many photos of 54 vintage goldtops and 59 bursts - I have found very few images on line of the Black Beauty type 57-60

maybe you guys can share some images to help me out
 
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zhivago

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Here's a few...

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:salude
 

VamboRool

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Go the the "Beauty of the Black Beauty-Alnico Les Paul Customs" thread that the nice gentleman above started, lots of pictures of single coil pick up Customs and some of us have snuck in some PAF equipped Customs. I think you'll find a wide variety of wear patterns or you could just play the heck out of the guitar to give it natural wear.
 

Tom Wittrock

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ourmaninthenorth

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Welcome stumphead.

Another vote for zhivago's fantastic long running thread linked above, one of my favourites.

:salude
 

Tom Wittrock

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And another thread [about vintage Customs no less!] where I am getting constant warnings about some bad web site called "against perfection". :pisd

Bye bye :eek:la
 

zhivago

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And another thread [about vintage Customs no less!] where I am getting constant warnings about some bad web site called "against perfection". :pisd

Bye bye :eek:la


Hi Tom,

what is the message saying exactly?

"against perfection.net" is actually my domain name, and the image library is housed in its back end.

I can try and contact the user support dept at my host to see what the problem is...weird as I don't get any messages like that. (I am on a mac)
 
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