Pics of my 74 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe for zhivago

[JazzBlaster]

One of these might be a possible alternative to a reissue '54 or '57 custom .. as I think P90s fit into those minibucker routs .. ?

yes they do, the mini buckers sound great tho

David

[luau]

Very cool northern_dirt. 

[northern_dirt]

The Rings attach to the pickup..

Thanks everyone..

[i love sharin foo]

At one point I was an email away from trading a refinished '62 Jazzmaster for a '74 Deluxe gold top. I ended up trading for my black '66 Jazzmaster though. I have still always wanted a Deluxe though. I have a '65 Harmony 1446L that has two Gibson designed mini humbuckers (they are stock in that guitar) and they sound AMAZING. So fat, eyt so clear. For me, there's a perfect balance... I still want a Deluxe someday.

Justin

[RumorsOFsurF]

Oh yeah you didn't get the Memo.. its shit on Nolan day 

[northern_dirt]

Oh yeah you didn't get the Memo.. its shit on Nolan day 

YES!!! Even Johnny knows Im NUMBER 1!!!!

[tsalwel]

At one point I was an email away from trading a refinished '62 Jazzmaster for a '74 Deluxe gold top. I ended up trading for my black '66 Jazzmaster though. I have still always wanted a Deluxe though. I have a '65 Harmony 1446L that has two Gibson designed mini humbuckers (they are stock in that guitar) and they sound AMAZING. So fat, eyt so clear. For me, there's a perfect balance... I still want a Deluxe someday. Justin

absolutly i have a 76 lp deluxe and 
the other gitplayer in our band has an lp custom i dont know what and 

when i bought the VI  years ago      there was also a  52 gold top for sale......$ 5000  now they go $ 20.000 30.000 


  d

[mezcalhead]

They're also unplayable I think .. aren't those the ones with the hanging bridge that goes out of tune if you look at it?

[zhivago]

they had a really shallow angle and the bridge was a mess...they are playable if you're careful with the tailpiece, but people tend to convert them to stop-tail

[i love sharin foo]

but people tend to convert them to stop-tail

And hack them up by resetting the neck to the later angle, routing for humbuckers, and converting to full '58-60 specs    There were places even advertising that they were doing those conversions for a while. I think that's a shame. After that kind of modification I think it'd be a lot smarter to just buy a reissue or custom shop model or something similar. But that's just me..

Justin

[zhivago]

the worst thing is that they could take the tailpiece off and install a badass bridge, the gutar will playable...but they just won't do that - they'd do a full conversion to '59 specs

you can also install an ES330 style tailpiece and then drop a tunomatic bridge in the posts and it would work (only thing would be that you'd have to shave the bottom of the tunomatic quite a bit for it to have good action)


I seriously considered getting one of these a while back...and might just do if I find an issues one (broken headstock, refin etc)

they look real cool IMO

[mynameisjonas]

they're gorgeous. i fell in love with them when i saw the video for start choppin' for the first time.
looks like j chose the later wraparound version for playing the song live though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgnCD7dkHXU

[zhivago]

wraptails rule as well!!

[mynameisjonas]

definitely, if i'm ever getting a les paul it's gotta be one of those

[zhivago]

I can't blame you....after the '54 Les Paul Custom look they are also my favourites