hoss
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This conversion shows great craftsmanship.
BTW I just came up with a reasonable explanation for the guitar ending up as a custom. If you look at the pictures when the guitar was finished in lemon or stripped I see way too many mineral streaks for gibson's aesthetic standards at the time. As cool as they are, we all have heard that Gibson would use only the most pristine and "perfect" looking pieces of maple for see-through finishes.
This one looks kind of borderline, because the big streak on the bottom near the controls can easily be hidden or minimized by the burst pattern, but there are several other minor streaks on the left side.
Maybe someone though the top looked good enough (and in fact it is extremely pretty IMO), but someone else decided that it wasn't "perfect" enough and ordered it to be covered in black and finished as a Custom.
And many of us would like to know what it was when it left the factory, and when it left the factory.
That serial number is a non-original stamp, so it is nothing to rely on.
Hi all, the LPF has always been receptive to vintage Les Paul restoration threads, and as this guitar came from our very own LPF member ‘Stoker’, and has been discussed before, I thought some would be interested in the full process.
I really enjoyed following this on instagram. Thanks for sharing your work with everyone, even though it comes with some negative feedback.
PGV is one of the main reasons I still use Instagram. Between him, Greg Koch, and JB, I get a kick out of that platform in particular.
There are innumerable examples of mineral streaked tops from this era, the evidence doesn't support the "perfect top only" urban myth.
Examples?
Have a quick flick through one of my favourite sites -
http://www.burstserial.com/site/
:salude
Yeah I'm familiar with burstserial. I hardly see bursts with streaks as prominent as this guitar. As I said, I think it' kind of borderline, looks great, but IMO atypical for a vintage burst.
As for finishing this guitar in anything other than black, Goldtop would have been an option but I guess there was no custom order issued for one (AFAIK all goldtops after 58 were custom orders).
And many of us would like to know what it was when it left the factory, and when it left the factory.
That serial number is a non-original stamp, so it is nothing to rely on.
Any such thing as an “employee guitar” during this time period?
Mix and match to personal preference...
Strange..
iI could find numerous "prominent" dark mineral streaked bursts in the first 2 pages of Burstserial's "Burstfaces" section.
Not at the edges, but right in plain sight on the top.
And that's only from the first 2 pages of the 1959 collection.
Some examples:
great craftsmanship but I liked the guitar much better as it came from the factory, now it's just another fake burst