Les Pauls I Previously Owned - My 1980 Les Paul Custom
The story behind my second Les Paul: I wanted a nice Les Paul for an good price. My solution involved the San Diego Reader. The Reader was a free magazine given out every Thursday at various locations in San Diego. It contained stories and in the back classified ads. Every week for about 4 years I looked in the Reader classified ads for a Les Paul with a good price. In November of 1997, I found this 1980 Les Paul Custom for $775.00 and I managed to buy it. However, the neck pickup was bad so it needed to be replaced which cost me about $150.00. It was a well-played Les Paul Custom with a good weight and I played it for a long time. Eventually, a guitar tech in Amsterdam convinced me to put in fretless wonder frets and a new nut. After that it was difficult to play and would not stay in tune. In 2009, I sold it for a good price to someone else in to fund buying a Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul.
The story behind my second Les Paul: I wanted a nice Les Paul for an good price. My solution involved the San Diego Reader. The Reader was a free magazine given out every Thursday at various locations in San Diego. It contained stories and in the back classified ads. Every week for about 4 years I looked in the Reader classified ads for a Les Paul with a good price. In November of 1997, I found this 1980 Les Paul Custom for $775.00 and I managed to buy it. However, the neck pickup was bad so it needed to be replaced which cost me about $150.00. It was a well-played Les Paul Custom with a good weight and I played it for a long time. Eventually, a guitar tech in Amsterdam convinced me to put in fretless wonder frets and a new nut. After that it was difficult to play and would not stay in tune. In 2009, I sold it for a good price to someone else in to fund buying a Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul.
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