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  1. I´d be more into how that particular one WesMo L5 sounded - before sending her back .. Just sayin´ 😉 some of those pix are pretty P-shopped anyway.. Wes would take any box, so he didnt even travel with one. " Asked about his instrument, he said, “I gota standard box." Yeah, he was all about the music.. not cosmetics, bookmatching and all that BS. No disrespect to anyone 😉
  2. Chambered is anything but "Historic" - i.e. THE definition of Oxymoron if you ask me 🙂 I mean, you want to get the closest to the original Holy Grail - and then you chamber it ?? I wouldnt want one for free... And yes, they´ve always had that CR prefix.. are they now trying to fool even more people ? ... Anyway, I guess you could tell even without the certificate, just taking off the cc cover or pulling the pickups ? Just look at some of that BS 😉 http://aws2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Gear-Tech/en-us/Wide-World-of-Weight-Relief.aspx Beware... all chambered LPs never sounded like true LPs to me.. not even close. .. YMMV, etc 😉
  3. They used Bill Lawrence HBs in that era - you can tell them by the big heads of the (positioning) screws -- pics ? Not everybody´s favorite, the bridge pu was quite hot (like 14k) ... not sure if they used these in 175 though.. in LPs certainly.. Later, 1991 or 1992 came the 490R/498T , alnico 2 + 5. Very underrated pickups IMO, at least in their original version, who knows what happened with them later (like they did with Classic57s - cheaper insulation on wire, maybe ?)
  4. OMG.. clean as whistle, and 100% authentic Gibson LPC - if the price is right, grab it ! I´d take any gibson 1987-1993 without second thought.. I actually did, many times, and never regretted it - and will never sell any one of them. There was no Custom Shop till 1993, and these were the flagship, with (pre)historic LP Standards of the era.. The best gibson LPs since 1960 😉 ok, some 1968s werent shabby too
  5. Sure looks weird.. strange open book. . other that that - I for one would take trapezoid inlays over small 60s inlays any time... that´s not fish nor bone.. sorry Eric, whatever year was that 335 from.. now that we know it was not a 64 really . The dots are it - for the true 335 feel 🙂
  6. His sound on Super session live is cranked Fender Super Reverb.. As for pickups, I was amazed how close the OX4 low wind set (A4) gets. Now the true mystery wrapped in an enigma is (and probably will never be answered) : Were the speakers in Clapron´s BB Series II combo Alnico or ceramic ? ... could be both by the time frame... playing the 1962hw I´d vote for the first, but I liked the G12C too, even unbroken still... sorry for derailing the thread 😉
  7. Nothing to worry about.. My 07 R9 has big gap, the 98 R4 no gap at all, etc.. it differs from year to year, and all RI´s in your pics look legit.
  8. Wes L5 in VS.. the only guitar left that I am lusting for There is nothing like it. On a side note - my all time favorite Wes tone is the Kenny Burrell´s L7 with CC pickup he used for the 1st (Trio) album.. more woody, intimate or something.. Where can I get one ? :)
  9. August 2011 is the cut off date (time of that notorious raid on Gibson). I´ve got an April 2011 made ES-355 and the fretboard is ebony. So yours is 100% ebony as well. BTW you should be able to tell by the looks if it, richlite is just super smooth plastic (ebony has some surface irregularities, lines, pores etc -much less than rosewood of course, but still).
  10. Right, it´s not the tuners, but almost always too tight slot in the nut, g + h strings. Play a lot, bend a lot, use pencil lead/graphite or some lube,and it will go away - all my LPs had been like this unless bought used and "seasoned"... I never even needed to file the slot. Just lube the nut and play the thing
  11. This numbering scheme only applies to Nashville made 355s, the Memphis ones have the CSxxxxxx format.
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