jbromberg

THERE CAN BE ONLY TWENTY FOUR !!! One guy has two Black Widows. "one to play and one to stay", I guess. More pics of my #003 to come when I can get it out in the sunlight. The Black Widow is loosely based on the 57RI, of course there was never a 57 that looked like this. It has a fully CHAMBERED body, like the Les Paul Supremes and weighs between 7 and 8lbs. It has a Burstbucker Pro 1 in the neck (8.0k--relatively mild) and a Burstbucker Pro 2 in the bridge position (8.5k--a little hotter). The first mod people are doing is to throw a Burstbucker Pro 3( 8.8k--more output) in the Bridge position, move the #2 to the Neck position, and put the original #1 in the case for those future owners who want all the original parts. IMHO Under no circumstances put a 498T (@14k) in one of these; save that for your beater, heavily modded LP or LPC hot rod. IMHO covers should be taken off EVERY pickup ever made, it can only get in the way. Jack that sucker ALL the way up so that your 22nd fret position on the E strings (HI and LO) just clear the screw polepieces tightened all the way down. Next mod will be to get rid of those POS Gibson poly film Bumble Bee imposter caps. I'm auditioning a bunch of caps in my other LPC with its original stock 1980 7.4k pickups and so far I'm liking PIO Cornell-Dubilier .022uFs that have drifted up to .024uF. A close second are some PIO C-D " Tiny Chief " .018s that are 'way out of spec at .024uF to .025uF. With either of these caps in the tone quest, full tone pot roll-off give a tone is SO smooth, it's the GREASE. Of course the Gibson Repro .022uF BBs go in the case, along with the BB #1pickup for the person that buys it from my estate and wants to quibble over whether it's "all original". If he wants it "all original" let him put it back that way. Roger Ball at Gibson is the guy who gets my info for me on this Limited Edition. Jesse

OK GUYS: #002 was up on ebay over in Europe. Buy It now for like 3,950 Euros!!! We'd like to know who has it now? I have #003. AND GET THIS: #13 AND #23 are owned by the same guy (that's right, he's got two, I guess "one to play, and one to stay". There's supposed to be a guy with the handle Stratoburst on the MY LES PAUL site that has one, too. Most guys paid $4,165 for theirs and the ones in Europe are going for 3,950 Euros which is about $5,333 !!! One sold here in the US on Ebay for $4,000 even, I belive... Who's got that one? C'mon let's hear from all the (now) TWENTY FOUR owners of the Gibson R7 Black Widow/WidowBurst guitars, THERE CAN BE ONLY TWENTY FOUR (unless someone else has two of them) Jesse jbromberg2010@yahoo.com

Hi great pics DaVinci. Send me a personal message on this forum with your contact information. Jesse (BW#003)

I know these pictures are lame compared to DaVinci's great pics but i'm working on it. Meanwhile here are some pics of my BW #003 Where are all you other Black Widow Owners. "THERE CAN BE ONLY TWENTY-FIVE !!!"

"THERE CAN BE ONLY TWENTY-FIVE !!!" This is the start of the Gibson Forum for Black Widow Owners, so we can maintain and track the ownership of these 25 very special guitars. Thanks for logging in and letting us know who our fellow guitarists are who couldn't get this red guitar out of our heads once we'd seen it, much less played it. Someone please let me know how to get a picture on my hard drive up on this forum, by imbedding it in the post. I don't have a photobucket or URL to use. Jesse