Ram Jam Black Betty. Unusual Les Paul ?

[FuneralBill5150]

Here's the entire story of this strange Les Paul from Bill Bartlett's own writings:

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/TNM_Guitars/News/NewsExtra.htm

 

[Doc Sausage]

Thats Probably the Best Guitar Solo ever played. If you ask me that is.
Still i love it!

Replete with pick-tapping before EVH!

 

[miczap]

Here's the entire story of this strange Les Paul from Bill Bartlett's own writings:

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/TNM_Guitars/News/NewsExtra.htm

Using hand-held power tool, I chipped the crappy wood (hidden under the god paint) of the top; with a chisel and fashioned a birdseye plank for the new top. The P-90's went to the octave neck and neck position of the Mosrite I was working on simultaneously.

Jesus..

 

[Rich R]

Fish gotta swim...

Great origin story!

Have mercy, baby!

 

[au_rick]

Found online:


[FONT=&quot]Just wanted to start a thread as a tribute to Bill. That guitar is an original 1954 Gibson Les Paul. Bill chipped the top off of it himself with a chisel and replaced it with a birdseye top. He installed the 1971 or 1972 Gibson embossed humbuckers himself and put the original P-90's in a Mosrite project he was working on. Later, Bill said he had the Les Paul "rebuilt" for him by a luthier named Cliff Biltz in Oxford , Ohio, "because it was worn out." The neck was replaced with a modified D'Angelico...[/FONT]

 

[Triburst]

“Troglodyte“ has done a pretty good job running down exactly how this guitar came to be.
The Black Betty Les Paul