kent04 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bought this 1988 L4CES in Austin for $1,700 bucks. She sounds fantastic, but came with serious flaking clear coat, no pick-guard, dirty corroded pickups, Grover imperials, and clear apoxy in really weierd places. i gutted her, cleaned out apoxy from the bridge, bought Grover deluxes, scrapped off the clearcoat wetsanded the headstock and applied a new nitro finish, changed out knobs and added black screws to the pick-guard mounts (for some reason all of my Gibsons end up without pick-guards...) now she's a sweet stinging yellow jacket Thanks to everyone that gave me advice throughout this process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody78 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Congrats! Beautiful guitar. Even with the problems it had when you purchased it, $1,700 is a crazy good deal for such a fine instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent04 Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 Congrats! Beautiful guitar. Even with the problems it had when you purchased it, $1,700 is a crazy good deal for such a fine instrument. I Know! i was looking at getting a pre 70s es175, but would have much rather had the sound of an L4 or L5 (spruce & mahogany) plus wife was much more supportive of $1,700 vs $4k-$5k ill upload a video sometime of how it sounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Very nice indeed, I'd like one.... But I bought a new ES175 in 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Looks very pretty! The golden Reflector knobs nicely match her overall appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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