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I was in the Army for a great number of years. Decades. Working for them for the past few years as a Government Servant as well, and now a civilian contractor. The current gig is great. Flight test. Objective, purely scientific endeavors. Working with people of high integrity. Really loving it. Hoping to retire completely in about a year and a half or so. Mebbe two years. When the house is paid off. THEN, buddy, look out. Naked gardening. Wine for breakfast. The neighbors filing restraining orders against me for excessive guitar noises. Widow ladies hanging out topless by the pool. You know, the usual retiree stuff. 😉

Can you post a clear photo of the back of the headstock, and one of the soundhole sticker? That might help. 😐

At least two online resources (Guitar Dater Project and GuitarInSite) would have us believe that your serial number belongs to a Gibson made in Kalamazoo in 1964. Very odd. 🤔

Man. That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing that. 😃

Fred Astaire was the Chet Atkins of dancing. 😃

I mowed and edged the yard, the land, the park, the gardens, and everything. 9 straight hours of yard work, and it was especially tough after being away for nearly a week. My battery-powered mower finally succumbed to the battery-recharge-cycle misery, and I was that close to being done. I had just the front yard to do, and I would be finished. So I went to my neighbor, and borrowed his gasoline engine jobbie. I didn't bother to adjust his deck height, for fear of screwing him up on his next mowing. Can you tell? 😐

Troy, Typing in all caps is a sure way to get Gibson's attention. Well done, sir. Well done indeed. 😉

Marco, If I were you, I would contact Gibson Customer Support directly and ask them the question. With a few more photos, they will be able to tell you what you have there. https://www.gibson.com/Support/Contact As Merciful Evans pointed out, that five-piece headstock is a curiosity. I have never seen such a thing on a Gibson Les Paul. Older arch-tops, yes. Some of those had three-to-five piece maple necks/headstocks. Or so I have been told. 😐

It took a bit of hunting to find out what they cost on this side of the pond, but there she is. $5,430.77 in American Dollars. Which is indeed £3,840.00 at the current exchange rate, so that's fair I guess. Steep. But is is hand-made. https://orangeamps.com/product/custom-guitar/ 😐

The binding is the show-stopper for me. It looks very much Roy Rogers country-style to me. Not appropriate for such an otherwise nice rock guitar. 🤔

I ride like everybody is going to try and kill me. And nobody can see me. That way, when they pull out suddenly in front of me, I'm prepared with my line, my escape route, and my throttle/brake plan. Knock wood, I've been riding since the early 1970's, and I've never been in a wreck. Never crashed a car either, come to think of it. Knocking wood one more time. 🤔

It was a rainy day. Continued on today with the process of expanding my garden into raised garden bed crates. In the 'potato grow bags' are radishes, potatoes, and carrots. In the back left crate are watermelons, cantaloupes, and a single eggplant plant. I have some Vidalia onions germinating in water glasses right now. They'll go into the grow bags next Saturday. 😀 (Sorry for the blurry photo. It's misty and moist out right now.)

The serial number, by my eyes, is 1724. That's a Gibson that predates the L0 and L00, and was sold as the Style L, or 'the original L1', depending upon who you talk to. Most were archtops, some were apparently flat-tops, though the flat-top in full production didn't begin until 1926. The original Style L's were made beginning in 1902, until maybe 1905 at the very latest. Information available is inconsistent at best. Your serial number indicates that it was made in Kalamazoo in 1904. If it truly is just 724, and I'm wrong about it being 1724, then it was made in Kalamazoo in 1903. So only a one year difference. This, according to the Guitar Dater Project. I hope this helps. 🙂

Great guitar, and congrats!! This Takamine has been our main acoustic for over ten years now. 🙂

YES sir. You are correct in bringing Ronnie Montrose to the front of the discussion. Ronnie played on the original Frankenstein, which is an epic, weird, wild, dysfunctional blend of jazz and rock. He was the guitar player on They Only Come Out At Night. Rick Derringer was merely the producer on that record. Frankenstein was the name given to an elderly jam that Edgar and Johnny had crafted years earlier, and what we hear on the original LP was merely a moment in time. It was called Frankenstein because it was cobbled together from so many pieces of recording tape that it looked like a horrible Frankenstein monster to Rick and Edgar and everyone else in the studio. 🙂

The OP's video features the quintessential Edgar Winter Group lineup. Chuck Ruff on drums. Edgar Winter on keys, saxophone, and percussion. Rick Derringer on guitar. Dan Hartman on bass. So much talent. 😐

It sure is. Rick Derringer and Edgar Winter are lifelong friends, and they met thru Johnny. And they have been working together, collaborating, and touring together for decades. I'm a big fan of the Blue Sky Records family of artists, The Edgar Winter Group, Rick Derringer, Dan Hartman, etc, etc. 🙂

I have a good friend who is retired Army. He's a great guy with a big heart, but he's got dyslexia. Types, writes, and posts a whole lot like the OP. Keep on posting, JOMcKJr. I understand you, even if the others here find your prose to be perplexing and nonsensical. 🙂

Very nice!! 🙂

I haven't been to the break room in Nashville. Never been to the Gibson factory or home offices either. Nor Opryland or any of those tourist joints there. I do like visiting and staying near Broadway in Nashville. That's where the old honky-tonks are, and where Gruhn's Guitars used to be. I have been known to stay at The Hermitage, a 100 year old four-star hotel, just a couple of blocks northwest of The Ryman Auditorium. I'm a Veteran as well, JOMcKJr. Not disabled really, but I am a bit stiff in the joints lately. Glad and grateful to find myself upright and ambulatory every morning. Switching from whiskey to Lite Beer a few years ago seems to help. 🙂

I spent five straight hours in the chair of the local endodontist this morning. endodontist /ˌendōˈdän(t)əst/ noun DENTISTRY a dentist who practices or specializes in sadistic torture of the most deviant kind "for root canal treatment, or extreme pain of any sort, you will have to consult an endodontist" I had two root-canals this morning, and I now have more stitches in my mouth than Rick Nielsen has guitars. And to top it all off, Dr. Josef Mengele soaked my insurance company for several thousand dollars. I personally paid $4,000 out of pocket on my way out the door. I got into the wrong business, I tell you. 😞

I agree. And by the way, that's a really cool guitar. A rare and wonderful item indeed! 🙂

Rudedawg, It might be best to call the customer service folks at your insurance company, and ask them what qualifies as an official valuation. Eracer_Team wisely points out that Gruhn's can offer a written Appraisal, which carries more weight than a valuation offered by some guys on an internet web forum. Chance are, if you live near a large city, there will be a music shop that offers Instrument Appraisal services, for a fee. (Usually $50 or so.) Here's a screen capture from Fjestad's Blue Book Of Guitar Values. It's considered a decent and credible valuation resource, so maybe this will help. See what the insurance company says for sure though. Their position is what matters most, right? 🙂

We have nearly always gigged with Roland and Alesis kits. No complaints, ever. Sometimes the full Gretsch maple kit, but the logistics of that, never mind the sound/backsplash issues, were always a challenge. Modern digital kits really do work out quite well. 😐

That's fabulous news, rct. Some of the best news I have heard lately, good sir. I hope to get my band similarly situated quite soon. Our girl singer is recovering from back surgery, so she should be in top form in about a month or so. And our drummer is finally getting out, after satisfying himself that everyone's vaccinated now, and the risk of finding himself dead from nasty viruses is greatly reduced. (That was a big issue for awhile with him and his family.) My band-mate brother and I will be traveling up to New Hampshire next week along with our older brother, to visit with our sister who is terminally ill with lung cancer. A sad and heart-wrenching situation, but it's where we find ourselves. Family first, and then so things will open up and evolve with the band. Cheers, and again, congratulations. 🙂