Dan Erlewine
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LILY'S color. . .
Ronny: Yes, LILY looks exactly like the picture. There is a special rich-ness in that piece of wood. I credit that to it being old red-maple ("sugar maple" we called it) from the UP in Michigan that is rift-cut with a wide irregular flame. Although it is a perfect book-match (I sawed and thicknessed it myself), the flames do not match perfectly because of what was lost in thicknessing.
Pretty typical look for alot of Les Pauls according to ones I have seen in shows, on RARE occasions live, and in Yas's book. However, it hadn't occurred to me until this thread that it might be dorky to keep posting pictures of a guitar - especially the same guitar.
I can imagine this scenario . . . "Like . . . why doesn't Dan get a life? So what he's got a Les Paul finally - like the rest of us? Besides, his ain't even that good lookin', y'know? Geez, a few months ago I don't think he knew the difference between an R9 and an R8 . . . or you sure couldn't tell from his posts."
I will stop on the dorky guitar posts, and only post tech-pics as I usually do. And when I think I have something that might help out someone else as it did me.
I am ignorant. I don't retain alot of vintage facts and stuff, (like Martin serial numbers . . . used to know them by heart when I was a kid). I don't even know how many original Humbucker-equipped Gold-tops and Sunbursts were made between 1957 and 1960. I am sure that I must have read it somewhere. Off the top of my head I am guessing that - and this is guessing - 1300 sunburst Les Pauls were made back then? I could be way off.
Think how many thousands more have been made since. I don't know a whole bunch about WHEN a Les Paul made in Nashville became desireable, and became a cut above the average prodcution stuff, etc. I am guessing around 1990? Or the late 80s? I am guessing that Phil Jones must have been involved with the early stuff that was good, along with Tom Murphy, and perhaps JT Ribbiloff?
I remember "dot-neck" re-issues being pretty cool back then, but I wasn't paying any attention to Les Pauls. I would hope that every year these historics get better. And I would certainly like to think that what the Custom Shop learns they pass on down the street to production so that the more-affordable production model Les Pauls are as great as the others. Then Gibson would have come full-circle on the Les Paul-making thing.
Are the production Les Pauls improving year by year? Significantly? See, I have a friend who wants to buy his kid his first Les Paul, but not in the Historic price-range. What is the best entry level Les Paul model?
dan
Dan
Ronny said:Dan is the color in the pic pretty close to the "real life" color of LILY?
Nice looking wood. spin
Ronny: Yes, LILY looks exactly like the picture. There is a special rich-ness in that piece of wood. I credit that to it being old red-maple ("sugar maple" we called it) from the UP in Michigan that is rift-cut with a wide irregular flame. Although it is a perfect book-match (I sawed and thicknessed it myself), the flames do not match perfectly because of what was lost in thicknessing.
Pretty typical look for alot of Les Pauls according to ones I have seen in shows, on RARE occasions live, and in Yas's book. However, it hadn't occurred to me until this thread that it might be dorky to keep posting pictures of a guitar - especially the same guitar.
I can imagine this scenario . . . "Like . . . why doesn't Dan get a life? So what he's got a Les Paul finally - like the rest of us? Besides, his ain't even that good lookin', y'know? Geez, a few months ago I don't think he knew the difference between an R9 and an R8 . . . or you sure couldn't tell from his posts."
I will stop on the dorky guitar posts, and only post tech-pics as I usually do. And when I think I have something that might help out someone else as it did me.
I am ignorant. I don't retain alot of vintage facts and stuff, (like Martin serial numbers . . . used to know them by heart when I was a kid). I don't even know how many original Humbucker-equipped Gold-tops and Sunbursts were made between 1957 and 1960. I am sure that I must have read it somewhere. Off the top of my head I am guessing that - and this is guessing - 1300 sunburst Les Pauls were made back then? I could be way off.
Think how many thousands more have been made since. I don't know a whole bunch about WHEN a Les Paul made in Nashville became desireable, and became a cut above the average prodcution stuff, etc. I am guessing around 1990? Or the late 80s? I am guessing that Phil Jones must have been involved with the early stuff that was good, along with Tom Murphy, and perhaps JT Ribbiloff?
I remember "dot-neck" re-issues being pretty cool back then, but I wasn't paying any attention to Les Pauls. I would hope that every year these historics get better. And I would certainly like to think that what the Custom Shop learns they pass on down the street to production so that the more-affordable production model Les Pauls are as great as the others. Then Gibson would have come full-circle on the Les Paul-making thing.
Are the production Les Pauls improving year by year? Significantly? See, I have a friend who wants to buy his kid his first Les Paul, but not in the Historic price-range. What is the best entry level Les Paul model?
dan
Dan