jonnysixstring
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Hi All, I am calling on the knowledge of the forum members here to help unravel a little mystery. I have a LP Custom Black Beauty, I chased this guitar for 17 long years as it was previously owned by a college friend........heres where things get sticky! My college buddy insisted he bought this guitar from a London Guitar shop, and the previous owner had in fact been a certain curly haired, LP toting early 90's guitar god! story goes his management had cut him off of cash so he traded the guitar to buy drugs and booze. I think you all know who I am talking about, and I am sure you all agree that this is far fetched to say the least!
I am lucky enough to have some connections to this player and have been successful on two occasions getting pictures in front of him, both times his reply has been "Could have been mine, I have no memory of the early 90s"
The eagle eyed among you will spot from the serial number that the guitar dates as a custom shop 94 57 RI, problem is I have knowledge of this guitar prior to 94, and I have letters from Gibson dated Feb 92 relating to my friend trying to confirm its back story. Recent correspondence with Gibson has dated the guitar to 91, and they have confirmed it was indeed built for an artiste, they can not/will not confirm who though.
Also on the back of the headstock it has printed "Promotional Not For Resale" I have had this checked out also, and this is not B stock due to finish issues, there are no other markings relating to this, so basically it seems to have been made for an artiste, just who is the mystery!
Any help or advise much appreciated, not looking to sell as this is an awesome guitar, up there with my 68 Goldtop and 64 Custom SG! I have changed the pickups as they were the awful early 90's ceramics and sounded awful, obviously still have these and the scratch plate.
I am lucky enough to have some connections to this player and have been successful on two occasions getting pictures in front of him, both times his reply has been "Could have been mine, I have no memory of the early 90s"
The eagle eyed among you will spot from the serial number that the guitar dates as a custom shop 94 57 RI, problem is I have knowledge of this guitar prior to 94, and I have letters from Gibson dated Feb 92 relating to my friend trying to confirm its back story. Recent correspondence with Gibson has dated the guitar to 91, and they have confirmed it was indeed built for an artiste, they can not/will not confirm who though.
Also on the back of the headstock it has printed "Promotional Not For Resale" I have had this checked out also, and this is not B stock due to finish issues, there are no other markings relating to this, so basically it seems to have been made for an artiste, just who is the mystery!
Any help or advise much appreciated, not looking to sell as this is an awesome guitar, up there with my 68 Goldtop and 64 Custom SG! I have changed the pickups as they were the awful early 90's ceramics and sounded awful, obviously still have these and the scratch plate.