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  1. Ok. Sounds like the path forward is to get with a pro to clean this thing up and identify anything that needs to be immediately addressed. I don’t plan on selling it, so I can always reevaluate the full restoration at a later date. Appreciate your thoughts on this.
  2. Appreciate the welcome. Yeah, the thing weighs a freakin’ ton. Pretty sure the mafia tied these to bodies to sink them in the Hudson. I was actually looking at that exact Reverb page last night. Seeing what those were going for had me rethinking my approach. Initially, I was going to just get it serviced, maybe try to do some of the work myself, and then back to normal use. After seeing what some of those are going for, I was wondering if it would be better to get a full professional restoration as close to original spec as possible and treat it more as a collector piece that I lightly play on occasion.
  3. I recently started playing again and was planning to clean up/restore my old Gibson Les Paul. I never really knew much about it, so I did a little research. Turns out it’s a 1980 KM model - apparently somewhat rare. It’s in playable shape, with some minor damage consisting of a crack by the toggle and the input jack jammed in after a strap broke. Also, the previous owner swapped out the original bridge. Other than that, it’s really just dirty. My question is, how should I progress? Just visit a local luthier? Never having done that, is it straightforward, or do you get multiple opinions?
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