Re: Rare Gibsons and Vintage Epiphones

northern_dirt · Post by **northern_dirt** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:13 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

glimmertwin · Post by **glimmertwin** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:38 pm

soundhack wrote: i have a trini lopez custom - only 300 some ever made. no one wanted this guitar when i bought it (1983 - $325).

...who's got two thumbs and loves his Trini Lopez? This guy!

....although it's obviously a variant of that model.

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:40 pm

glimmertwin wrote:
soundhack wrote: i have a trini lopez custom - only 300 some ever made. no one wanted this guitar when i bought it (1983 - $325).

...who's got two thumbs and loves his Trini Lopez? This guy!

....although it's obviously a variant of that model.

Yeah, he's alright..

northern_dirt · Post by **northern_dirt** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:43 pm

Wow that guitar looks HUGE!

Tonebender · Post by **Tonebender** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:34 pm

This Epiphone Wilshire was available last year in Australia.
The distributor said this colour was for Australia only, it had a sticker on the back of the headstock that said "Epiphone Custom Shop China, Limited Edition"

Post by **Orang Goreng** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:39 am

glimmertwin wrote: ....although it's obviously a variant of that model.

I think that one is a Barney Kessel, actually... I think the difference is in the headstock (firebird-like on the Lopez) and the F-holes (diamond-like on the Lopez) (although a slightly different one from this one:):

northern_dirt · Post by **northern_dirt** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:41 am

Tonebender wrote:

This Epiphone Wilshire was available last year in Australia.
The distributor said this colour was for Australia only, it had a sticker on the back of the headstock that said "Epiphone Custom Shop China, Limited Edition"

Where the hell is the Canada only wilshire?.. YARRGH!!

djetz · Post by **djetz** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:34 am

Tonebender wrote: This Epiphone Wilshire was available last year in Australia.
The distributor said this colour was for Australia only, it had a sticker on the back of the headstock that said "Epiphone Custom Shop China, Limited Edition"

Sounds exactly like the usual salesman bullshit to me. Only in Australia my arse: Australia is the usual dumping ground for the crappier examples, not the special models. And we're talking about China, the most populous country on earth: what's a Chinese limited edition? "Only" ten thousand of them?

5L1V3R · Post by **5L1V3R** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:47 pm

RumorsOFsurF wrote:

Sliverized....

Now, who in their right mind wouldn't love these? Archtops without Floyd Roses make me angry!

now the one on the left doesn't look half bad!

i'd like to see a stripe on the red wilshire

1946dodge · Post by **1946dodge** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:04 pm

Anyone have a Gibson Les Paul Recording? I knew someone who owned it and unfortunately sold it.
I also knew someone who had a fretless wonder. It was a neighborhood kid, 10 years old who inherited it from his uncle who died.
I fixed it up for him and restrung it and when I played it I couldnt get over how awesome it played and sounded. This was 30 years ago.
The kid never cared about it and fortunately a cousin of his, a little girl, was a guitar enthusiast and could play, so he gave it to her, and I think she had it restored, because the kid didnt take care of it very well. Before he gave it to his cousin, I saw it under his bed out of the case with no strings on it as if it were a pile of crap.
I told his aunt that this guitar was very valuable and that is when they gave it to his cousin who would appreciate it.

I would love to see a Les Paul recording or a black beauty/fretless wonder if anyone has any pics.

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:09 pm

øøøøøøø wrote: wow. You guys totally rednecked-out my guitars. :o

No, they've been 5live3ed, or however the fuck you spell it!

FireAarro · Post by **FireAarro** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:35 am

djetz wrote:
Tonebender wrote: This Epiphone Wilshire was available last year in Australia.
The distributor said this colour was for Australia only, it had a sticker on the back of the headstock that said "Epiphone Custom Shop China, Limited Edition"
Sounds exactly like the usual salesman bullshit to me. Only in Australia my arse: Australia is the usual dumping ground for the crappier examples, not the special models. And we're talking about China, the most populous country on earth: what's a Chinese limited edition? "Only" ten thousand of them?

I don't know if many of these are sold in China, which has notorious guitar piracy going on. An Australian only run might happen if some Australian dealers or Epiphone's importer here commissioned a run of red Wilshires, but as you said, that's not likely at all.

chrisjedijane · Post by **chrisjedijane** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:39 am

Yeah, I doubt that Epiphone's "Limited editions" are anyhting of the sort. I bought my Epi '56 RI goldtop about 6 or 7 years ago, and even though it says "limited edition" they're still making them!!!

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:45 am

Competition stripes only work on Mustangs.

Post by **mynameisjonas** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:57 am

i've mentioned this many times before, but i had a 60s crestwood/wilshire (whichever one has the oval pearl inlays), and it was a very cool little guitar, but the neck was too thin and narrow for my taste and the pups (mini-buckers) were a bit on the nasal side. also had an olympic very briefly, it too was pretty cool, bigger neck than the crestwood/wilshire, but the neck joint was very unstable.