Doc Sausage
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I think there’s a Chinaman behind those Ray Ban’s on the bearded one!eace2
Hey guys!
Just saw this unique custom Gibson and had to chime in on this thread. Sorry I've been gone so long. Been busy with gigs and my new layouts.
Turns out the Nashville Gibson folks have the Kalamazoo documentation (design work blueprints) dated May 12th of 1967 on this special order. I've seen some of it and we think that Larry Allers personally worked on this one back then. Sports an Epiphone NY type cutaway later used on the LP Professional/Personal models. The headstock details are beautiful!
Best regards >> Robby Lawrence
All the oddball features only make me more certain it is genuine. The combination of all the little details, when you look at it closely in these photos. The weird round cutaway included. I believe it is a genuine Gibson custom order from circa 1966/1967. It looks like Billy Gibbons believes so, too.
Billy Gibbons doesn't own this guitar. I do. I purchasedAll I know about it (which is very little)... I know from these photos:
http://imageevent.com/firstflight/t...h5qqf3.cow_s?p=4&n=1&m=24&c=4&l=0&w=2&s=0&z=2
Nope, as presented. Not in logs.
Toggle cavity rout, REALLY?
Armrest and engraving?, Ah no, and no.
How'd they make and sell a LES PAUL without Les's royalty renewed? 1968 not 66. Also I was told by several dealers in 70's they could NOT order a Les Paul until 68.
Pickguard and headstock rear long turd thingy,:bigal WTF??
Heal Cap? Headstock shape? Some sharp corners and edges there too.
Flat top?
This is just the kinda thing BG would design in '06 not '66. It doesn't look 66 at all.
How did I miss this gem?!
That guitar is crazy.
I'd like to see some verification but..that said. Whomever made this certainly had an eye for detail if you assume it was not Gibson.
Let's see, the ABR looks period correct with those characteristic aggressive slopes at the edge & soft edged nylon saddles, chrome'd up parts with chrome covers, the knobs have that slight yellowing under the clear, Pat Pend Grovers, switch tip & poker look era correct, all the pickguard plys look like the old fashioned wavy/inconsistent glued sheets that are hand cut, the binding looks like white royalite (apposed to white ABS), the fretboard binding edges are heavily rolled off exactly like 50's customs were along with that tooled portion being unfinished with no yellowing, the pickups rings look like correct m69's from those years, Bigs is era correct, the number stamp fonts look Kalamazoo, I wonder and bet the binding dots are tortoise shell and I've probably missed more? The wire is certainly not fretless wonder spec though but they were using bigger wire on the other instruments then anyways.
So, whomever did this (if the story doesn't check out) certainly had a massive hard-on for mid to late 60's Gibson/Kalamazoo materials & specs as all those little details show up no matter how incongruent the design is. If you custom ordered this guitar today without spec'ing vintage to the most insane detail it would look totally different.
Usually, in a fake the design looks good but the details have gaps. Here, the design looks crazy but the details are pretty impressive.
Billy Gibbons doesn't own this guitar. I do. I purchased
it from the original owner,Torpedo Joe, in the early 1990s. I'm the guy in the photo showing it to Billy.
It is absolutely an authentic custom ordered Gibson made guitar.
There's nothing about that guitar that looks like Gibson had anything to do with it. Of course...YMMV.:jim
So you could be the man to enlighten us !
And 59Cherrytop as well !
If there's really any documentation about this guitar we will see it soon , I hope.
What about the black LP standard , wrap tail , shown in "Toneman" ? Its said to be a 1967 !!!
Should be impossible as well.
That is crazy and now i am stumped and confusedThat's the guitar now owned by John Shanks. Around the 16 min mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyOnw2U2wo&t=1063s
That's the guitar now owned by John Shanks. Around the 16 min mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyOnw2U2wo&t=1063s
I’m just here to say - aside from being technically wrong about Billy Gibbons being the owner of this guitar, all of my other comments and observations earlier/above about this guitar have aged very well, when re-read ��