[On the Fence: Historic Makeover]

Thanks for all feedback guys.

I am definitely not going to sell this guitar as it was a graduation present from my wonderful grandparents, though I had to throw in a bit of my own money. I’m still amazed that we could even have afforded it honestly, lol! 
I think I’m going to go ahead and keep it the way it is. I mean, the more I play it and jam with it the more comfortable it gets. I haven’t taken it to a show yet because if you know what happed to Jimmy Page’s Les Paul Custom, that’s why. 
I did play a 1968/1969 Les Paul Custom that had the fretless wonder frets and honestly I thought it was absolutely amazing. Someone had painted over it in a gross brown color but it played so so good. 
The thing that puts me off it the neck is a little chunky when standing up after playing for an hour or so. I guess I was just over thinking it all. 

[On the Fence: Historic Makeover]

I was wondering if anyone has anything to say about Historic Makeovers, located in Florida.

I’ve been on the fence about getting my Black Beauty made-over. I would like to have a more comfortable Les Paul, I just don’t know if it is worth it or not. I’ve been hearing nothing but great reviews though I wanted to reach out and see what people who have gone through with a makeover have said. I want the following done:

Historically accurate Top Carve

slimmed down neck to vintage profile

unplasicized nitro lacquer finish

Fretless wonder frets installed

 

My Black Beauty is based off a 1960 model but the neck is a little chunky for that, I think they just took a 1957 True Historic model and basically worked from there because the neck isn’t huge but it’s a little chunkier than I like. Also the Fretless wonder frets is something I've wanted from the start though Gibson didn’t offer it. I also have the option of either getting this makeover or purchasing a Marshall Bluesbreaker reissue amplifier and I’m really stuck. I always go back and forth between loving the feel of my Les Paul to not loving it so much. I’m kind of on the fence about a makeover so if anyone out there has had one done or has anything to say about the Fretless wonder fret profile I would love to hear. 
 

thank you for reading, any help is appreciated!

-Antonio

[Fretless Wonder]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone knew if the custom shop was able to do the fretless wonder fret profile on SG/Les Paul customs. I got a custom shop Trie Historic Black Beauty a few years ago and they told me they can’t, to which I never got a reason why they couldn’t.

So if that’s not the case and I can’t, does anyone have any info on how much it would be to install those frets on my current Black Beauty?

Was thinking about getting an SG/Les Paul Custom with those frets and if I can’t I’ll just get them on my Les Paul Custom.

 

I had the chance to play a late 60’s Custom with those frets and I felt a little cheated when my “replica” wasn’t a completely historic replica of a 1960 Balck Beauty which had fretless wonder frets. And yeah, I know that a lot of people put jumbo or medium frets because they didn’t like the low frets but I do.

 

Any help or info is much appreciated!

 

-Antonio

[MAPLE NECK VS MAHOGANY NECK]

Mahogany, because that's what Les Pauls are supposed to have.

 

And since I'm a purist

[What's your Les Paul's name?]

There's my R9 in Heritage Cherry Sunburst I named her Nadine

 

And my 2013 Standard in desert burst I named her Sariah

 

Sooo Nadine and Sariah

[Les Paul Traditional Pro II Questions]

I was thinking about getting a LPTP2, but then I found out that it has circuitries instead of the normal pots and capacitors