Grog
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I’ve been using Schaller Straplocks on all of my ES guitars & basses for years. I switched to Fender straplocks after the Schallers changed their design. They seem to be still made by Schaller & look exactly like the original Schallers. I’ve never noticed being poked by the unit.
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The inlay on the headstock is the “Flying Shrimp” from the RD Artist. I’ve never seen anyone fake one before. Did they pick one up when they liquidated NOS & install it on this guitar?
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Not really sure. Looks to be considerably thinner than the pickguard……
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The mounting brackets were just fabricated out of aluminum bar stock at the time. 1/8” X 3/8”? The mounting screws were the odd part. If I recall correctly, a #2-56 threaded stock was soldered to a larger screw like a #6-32. Mine seized up the only time I disassembled it & I had to re-tap it. The Deluxe was a make shift model modified to use up a surplus of Mini Humbuckers Gibson had in stock when they moved production of the Epiphone guitars to Japan in the late sixties. This allowed them to mount a humbuckers in the place of a P-90 with minimum re-tooling.
Here is a photo under the bracket when I took mine apart years ago………..
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Originally, the pickups were mounted in empty P-90 covers. Early routs in some of the openings were sloppy so they added “Goof Rings”. The Goof Rings could be made big enough to cover up the extra routing for full sized humbuckers……
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It should be easy to check one of the pot codes by removing the back plate. Example 1376742. 137=CTS (manufacturer), 67 Year manufactured,42=Week of year manufactured. I think you will find it to be between 1967 & 1969. I have a similar case for my 1969 LP Deluxe.
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We need photos to determine an accurate date. My book says 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 or 1975. Going by hardware changes for certain years, if it has a volute or a “MADE IN USA” stamp on the back of the headstock all contribute to help date a guitar from that era. Also, if you can read one of the pot codes through a F hole with a dental mirror or a WiFi Borescope that helps also. Example: 1376824 137=CTS (manufacturer) 68=year produced. 24=week of year produced.
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It’s a two button with a stereo plug………
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$1,000 is scary cheap for a ‘67 ES-335. I bought this one about 25 years ago and paid about $1,500. Might have been something very wrong with it or possibly stolen at that price………….
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Looks like an Ibanez copy to me also……..
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My brother had a middle seventies Les Paul Deluxe that he couldn’t set the intonation on. He found an after market bridge with larger diameter pressed in inserts. I took it to work and moved the bridge in the direction it needed to be moved by the distance the larger size of the inserts allowed. The bridge was similar to a harmonica bridge. It looks like somebody milled out a pocket & made a steel block to correct a similar issue & possibly rigged the bridge so it couldn’t tip with the nuts on top. I’ve never seen anything quite like it…………
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It looks somewhat like a Schaller harmonica bridge and it is in the right time period. The plate under it & the nuts on top look wrong. Also the slots for adjusting intonation look longer than a Schaller bridge. Was the previous owner a machinist or Tool & Die maker? Maybe some modifications were made to keep the bridge from tipping?
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Most high end guitars built in Memphis in 2016 had their MHS random wound pickups…….
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I checked my ‘59 EB-2, turning all of the pegs counter-clockwise tightened the strings, just like your photo. I never noticed that before & I’ve owned the bass for about 25 years……… odd!
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I would think that they would go opposite for B & T variants. The tuners that replaced these for the next years tuned backwards from the direction all other tuners turned. I believe they were Kluson also. I do have a ‘59 EB-2, but I’m not home to check it……..
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Hi, They were stamped with either a “B” or a “T” for bass or treble side.
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I picked up a Les Paul Custom Lite last February. At first I thought it was kind of odd, especially with a Crown Inlay versus the Split Diamond Inlay. Then it started to grow on me. Mine is a 2014…….
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Also the image cutouts that greet you at the Les Paul Museum in Waukesha Wisconsin……..
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Les Paul’s heaviest Les Pauls…………
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Some of the worst cases that are being made today, are much better than the cardboard & Archcraft cases Gibson shipped guitars in during the sixties & early seventies. They were horrible !!! No protection hardly at all! My ‘67 EB-2C, ‘69 EB-3 & ‘70 SG Special all came in Archcraft cases. Some people believe that most of the sixties produced some of the best quality guitars Gibson ever made. Many of them were shipped in lousy cases………
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I bought a Les Paul Studio Deluxe in 2015. I believe it was a special run for GC MF. It has the 10db boost like the guitar in question. I ended up pulling the battery & using the feature as a “Kill Switch”. It’s been a great guitar…….
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Playability should be fine as long as it doesn’t bother your hand. Here in Minnesota, we call that Minnesota Mint!
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I haven’t had that problem. It is equipt with TB+ pickups, same as a Thunderbird & the SG Bass. It is a significant chunk of wood & quite heavy.
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I just bought a 2014 Les Paul Custom Lite about six months ago. It is the only guitar I have ever seen lately with that Crown Inlay on a Les Paul. They now offer a Les Paul Classic Lite with a similar headstock but no binding. The bodies on these are about 30% thinner. Other than a very few early 1968 gold tops, no other Les Pauls that I am aware of had a Crown Inlay on the headstock like your photo…….
Strap locks for ES
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I've been using these since Schaller changed their design. I believe that they were made by Schaller & cheaper...........
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