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Eric's '65 LP

goldtop0

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So, is it generally accepted that Eric's Beano LP was a '59/60 transitional guitar............although touted as a '60 with the slimmer neck.
I haven't fastidiously followed the threads about this here over the years, but it certainly looks like one of those to me with the bell vol/tone knobs.
 

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So, is it generally accepted that Eric's Beano LP was a '59/60 transitional guitar............although touted as a '60 with the slimmer neck.
I haven't fastidiously followed the threads about this here over the years, but it certainly looks like one of those to me with the bell vol/tone knobs.

Yeah, I would guess so. The early ‘60s were very much like ‘59s with some changes slowly creeping in
 

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Eric's "Beano" did not have the Bell (reflector top) knobs, it was the '60 Summers Burst that he borrowed/bought after the first one was stolen in July of '66.
 

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Eric's "Beano" did not have the Bell (reflector top) knobs, it was the '60 Summers Burst that he borrowed/bought after the first one was stolen in July of '66.

Guess I could have said bonnet knobs..........there are a few ways of describing these things........yes 'reflectors' seems to be the standard description for the mid-late '60s ones.
 

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Eric's "Beano" did not have the Bell (reflector top) knobs, it was the '60 Summers Burst that he borrowed/bought after the first one was stolen in July of '66.

Guess I could have said bonnet knobs..........there are a few ways of describing these things........yes 'reflectors' seems to be the standard description for the mid-late '60s ones.

To me, both are bell knobs. Just the later ones have reflectors.
 

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Steve, the following is the closest thing I've read to definitively ID the year.

tom, i'm sorry that this won't be a very satisfying answer, and i respectfully (and i really do mean respectfully) am not open to discussing revealing how or for how long it's been that i had occasion to become aware of definitive proof that the beano burst was/is in fact a '59. i'm fairly certain that any further elaboration would create, at the very least, a somewhat touchy situation. i hope and imagine that you can understand that i can not (and am in fact bound not to) inaugurate such a possibly touchy situation. i can however, and will say that the guitar bears a 9 xxxx serial number. goddamn...that felt good. that's it.
 

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Steve, the following is the closest thing I've read to definitively ID the year.

Tim, please put a link to where this quote came from, as it obviously is not from this thread. :)
 

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Steve, the following is the closest thing I've read to definitively ID the year.

Thanks Tim, revisiting the old threads.........the memory wanes a little when you're not going over them:salude
 

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Bump. A 2020 video about this topic.

This video shows Clapton’s quotes about a skinner neck, so it may support that it might be a 59/60 transition. The video talks about the 9xx serial number but as a non confirmed rumor.


Found this JoeBonamassa info saying it was a ‘59

But maybe Clapton and Gibson still believes it was a 60s or early 60s?
 

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Yes well 'nothing' can be confirmed until Beano actually resurfaces.
These debates and the conjecture will keep us on the go in the meantime;)
 

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By mid 1960 Gibson was using silver inserts on their knobs.
 

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The latest edition of Guitar Player has EC on the cover with Beano and a nice article on the mystery surrounding it's disapperance , which I read about half of it last night .
 
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