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It IS kind of cool though. I like it. And for the record, I'm not blind, unless I take off my reading glasses. Then I can't see $hit. 😬

MAN, that sure is gold. Quite a rare and wonderful guitar! 🙂 This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its color... its brilliance, its divine heaviness.

That's a brand new Gibson invention, as it turns out. Just be glad that you got the prototype, and for free at that!! 😬

Welcome Andrea. Great to have you aboard! I would love to own a Les Paul Lite. Yours is similar to the standard Les Paul Studio, but came with no pickguard, and naked humbuckers. (A look that I am fond of!) She was built of a mahogany body and neck, ebony fingerboard with trapezoid inlay, black chrome hardware, exposed pickups, and was mostly available in Translucent Black, Translucent Blue (BU), or Translucent Red finish, and was discontinued in 1998. Worth, if you kept it nice and mint, right around €925 to €1,000. You can add €90 if yours has gold hardware and either the Heritage Cherry Sunburst (LPLT-HS) or Vintage Sunburst (LPLT-VS) finishes. I hope this helps!! 🙂

Yes. Like and Share my posting right now, and something wonderful will happen to you within 24 hours. If you pass and Delete it however, a puppy will die. 😑

That sure is one blingy, gold-plated guitar. Not my flavor, but then again, who am I to question Tom Petty? Or Batman even? 🙁

I loved Thin Lizzy, and their one radio hit. Phil Lynott seemed like an interesting Englishman, raised in Ireland, and proudly so. His Signature bass can be yours for just a few paychecks. 😑 https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PBassCSLEPL--fender-custom-shop-limited-edition-phil-lynott-precision-bass-black-relic?utm_source=criteo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=lowerfunnelnew&utm_content=display&utm_term=300x250&dclid=CKDjx62exe8CFYkzwQodIUsNFg

I just liked your post. 😬

I lived on the North Shore for a few years with my 1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio. It had gold hardware, and that soon turned to tarnish going rapidly green. I kept it for a few years later here in northern Alabama, and finally sold it to a lovely gentleman from Owens Crossroad who loved the 'reliced look' of it. Score. 😜

I appreciate all the insight and wisdom, guys and gals. Some things have become clear to me, after posting this grist for the mill sort of thread; * Everyone's perceptions and opinions on utility, functionality, performance, value, and luxury are all uniquely different. And that's to be expected, and even celebrated. * We all work hard for our money, and if we want something (and have even coveted it for a very long time), then by golly we should have it. And to hell with what anybody else thinks about how much we spent on it. and, * Most internet conversations, whether they need to or not, will always turn into an argument. On that note, please know that I didn't start this thread to assert that cheap guitars are better than expensive guitars. Far from it. (I am, this very week, about to drop quite a bit of money on a mint-condition, 30 year old Fender Strat.) I just wanted to hear from people who are willing to spend the top dollar on guitars about why they are willing to spend the top dollar. Years ago, in another life, I had a friend ask me, "Why do you buy your wife Cadillacs? Johnny, you know that the Chevy or Oldsmobile is just as good. And they cost less than half the price of that Sedan DeVille!" I answered, "Because she likes the Cadillacs. And I want her to have what she wants." Years later she got everything she wanted, in the divorce. Which was everything I had, and everything I had ever owned. And my ego, my pride, and my dignity. And half my military retirement. Q: Why is a divorce so expensive? A: Because it's worth it. Okay, I'm gonna shut up now. 😬

The magic of web forums. From 'what's the story of your avatar?' to 'the merits versus drawbacks of smoking weed' to 'I love KISS and and enjoyed seeing them perform live' to 'Gene Simmons is a ******bag'. The novel just sort of writes itself. 🤨

I just had a thought. (And this is rare, so hang on, it could get dicey.) The things we value in a guitar are fairly simple, right? We need it to work, from the get-go, and be dependable. We need it to sound great. We need it to stay in tune. We want it to be pretty. We want it to feel good. We want it to be cool. We would like for it to attract chicks, and turn the heads of fans in the audience. We would like for it to hold its resale value some day. Okay. So if you find all that in a guitar, on a great number of occasions over your lifetime, for 400 CAD (for example), for 600 Quid even, for 700 AUD maybe, or $1,200 at the outside, and those guitars clearly met all those above-listed requirements............. Why in the world would people spend $2,500 or £4000 or even €6000 on a high-end guitar? I have had (and I still own) $400 guitars that checked the block on all those metrics. Shoot, I have owned $200 pawnshop prizes that met most of those requirements. What is it about uber-expensive guitars that continues to drive and influence the market price? I must admit this much. I owned a 1971 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. I have held and briefly played a $4,000 Gibson acoustic. I have had the rare privilege of trying out a $2,200 Fender Jazz bass. I have to tell you; I didn't feel or hear anything that knocked me out, or that impressed me more than the Takamine over there or that Ibanez bass right over here. So I ask you; If you drop a boat-load of money (more than $3,000) on a super high-end guitar, is it because it's supposed to sound and perform better than the pedestrian ones? Or is it because you savor the notion of owning such a prestigious instrument? Do we need to feel and know at some point in our lives that we have arrived, and that we deserve such a luxurious adornment? Because aside from bragging rights, I really can't feel or hear the difference between most $800 guitars and those $3000 guitars. I honestly cannot. I welcome your thoughts, and PLEASE do not take this posting as a condemnation of high-end guitar collectors. I just want your thoughts and opinions on the emotions, inclinations, and motivations for spending that much. 🤔

I sent a message to Customer Service to ask them the question about Lefty Kramers. Hoping to hear back fairly quickly. 😐

Wilcommen, GL. Nice to meet you!! 😑

That is one beautiful guitar. Congratulations! 😛

You ask a lot of questions, amigo. Why don't we start at the bar? And I'm buying. 😬

Much love to your brother and the whole family. Harry sounded like a great friend!! 😔

An unusual forum, or a boutique New Jersey Croque Madame with a glass of Clicquot? 😬

JR, That Les Paul Deluxe guitar was made at the Kalamazoo or Nashville Plant (can't tell by the serial number), in 1976 Production Number: 133622 She features a three-piece mahogany/maple body, deeper cutaway binding, bound carved maple top, mahogany neck, 22-fret bound rosewood fingerboard with pearl trapezoid inlays, widened black headstock overlay with pearl Gibson logo inlay and "Les Paul Model" silkscreened, "Deluxe" engraved on truss rod cover, three-per-side Kluson tuners with plastic double ring buttons, tune-o-matic bridge, stop tailpiece, raised cream pickguard, and two mini humbucker pickups. That finish was called Tobacco Sunburst. Worth now, used: Mint Condition - $3,000 Excellent Plus - $2,400 Excellent - $1,950 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The SG is most likely a Standard in Natural Finish, and was made was made at the Kalamazoo Plant on April 24th, 1978Production Number: 68 She's got a mahogany body, set mahogany neck, 22-fret bound rosewood fingerboard with small pearl dot inlays, black headstock overlay with pearl Gibson logo and crown inlay. Worth now, used: Mint Condition - $2,200 Excellent Plus - $1,750 Excellent - $1,425 I hope this helps. Sorry about the cereal box gag. I couldn't help myself. 😜

Staying home and tele-working today. Terrible weather in the deep South. 😗 https://weather.com/weather/radar/interactive/l/Huntsville+AL?canonicalCityId=a69a6e1e58d85f3374d14eccc0009a0ded9eb8d078f860e1830ef05eb7ebc856

I prefer the Fender Flakes myself, but Gibson cereal is good too. 😛

I fixed it, sort of. 😬

Okay, so here's the deal; For many weeks I would open up this web forum, and down there in the Forum Feedback section would be this prominently-displayed thread at the top of the heap, Forum Is Unusable. And then so followed a lot of tit-for-tat about how the Gibson Forums would not display correctly on somebody's smart phone. (I don't do internet or web forums on a phone, quite personally. Only on my home computer, and only before or after work.) So this was a foreign concept to me. Anyway. The other day I logged in and glanced at Forum Is Unusable, and it looked like Forum Is UNUSUAL. It was just a passing visual illusion, right? And I laughed out loud. And so I posted this absurd thread, hoping to inspire some conversation. Like many of my ideas over the years, (the ironing board, steam iron grilled cheese sandwich, for instance) it fell flat. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and you can't bake a cake what you don't break some eggs. (I still hope to make some money off that grilled cheese sandwich thing, by the way. ) 😜

Sorry. My poor attention to detail. 😐

I sold the two cases to a lovely gentleman from north Harvest. He tried to pay me $75, but I only had thirty in change for his hundred dollar bill, so all was well. I got my asking price of $70, and he got two great cases. And I bought groceries and beer on the way home, and had eleven bucks left in my pocket. 😬