vsface1961
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Hello everyone,
I’m Fabio and I’m writing from Italy and I would appreciate some help for my guitar.
In the 1975 , for my 14° birthday, my father gave me an used sunburst Gibson Les Paul custom. When he bought it , they told him that was a Gibson of the end of fifties. It was in very poor condition. It came without pickguard and pickup cover.I kept it in these conditions for few year and in the late seventies my father had it “repaired” by his friend and luthier. In those time there was no interest in vintage, in Italy at least. After 45 years I don’t remember all the work done , but certainly has been polished , were replaced the Kluson turner (you can see the old holes in the back of headstock) and the bridge pickup and probably something in the electrical part. Most likely, during polishing was deleted the serial number (but there may not have been when it was bought, I cannot recall that particular) . In the early 1980s I stopped playng electrical guitar and my Gibson has been closed in its case (not original; the original was very tired and was replaced ☹). In the last few years I did a brief research on its history, but finding informations has been difficult. Some say that a pleasing variety of Custom sunburst were built in 1957, some others say that only in 1968 were built a few examples of Custom sunbust. They even said that it was repainted (originally it was a Black Beauty). That’s all.
I attach some photos and I thank you
I’m Fabio and I’m writing from Italy and I would appreciate some help for my guitar.
In the 1975 , for my 14° birthday, my father gave me an used sunburst Gibson Les Paul custom. When he bought it , they told him that was a Gibson of the end of fifties. It was in very poor condition. It came without pickguard and pickup cover.I kept it in these conditions for few year and in the late seventies my father had it “repaired” by his friend and luthier. In those time there was no interest in vintage, in Italy at least. After 45 years I don’t remember all the work done , but certainly has been polished , were replaced the Kluson turner (you can see the old holes in the back of headstock) and the bridge pickup and probably something in the electrical part. Most likely, during polishing was deleted the serial number (but there may not have been when it was bought, I cannot recall that particular) . In the early 1980s I stopped playng electrical guitar and my Gibson has been closed in its case (not original; the original was very tired and was replaced ☹). In the last few years I did a brief research on its history, but finding informations has been difficult. Some say that a pleasing variety of Custom sunburst were built in 1957, some others say that only in 1968 were built a few examples of Custom sunbust. They even said that it was repainted (originally it was a Black Beauty). That’s all.
I attach some photos and I thank you
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